Lanark Highlands, Township of

Provisional — data as of 2026-08-02; nominations close August 21, 2026. This page is one entry in a mechanically generated 444-municipality index; it is not hand-edited — see “How to correct an error” below.

ON-lanark-highlands

Municipality facts

Tier: lower
Upper tier: Lanark, County of
Population (2021 Census): 5737

Official links

Clerk's election page: https://www.lanarkhighlands.ca/town-hall/2026-election/meet-your-candidates
Candidate list: https://www.lanarkhighlands.ca/town-hall/2026-election/meet-your-candidates
2022 results: none on file
Coverage status (this dataset's own honesty flag): census, as of 2026-08-02

Races on file (7)

This section informs; it does not rank, endorse, attack, or characterize any candidate — same posture as every other candidate-facing page in this kit.

Mayor — at-large

ON-lanark-highlands-mayor

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Peter McLaren — running in 2026: unknown
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
2022 baseline: turnout 33.66% · margin 3.0 pts · acclaimed: no
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (1, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Name	Registered	Website	Public contact
Wesley (Wes) Pugh	undated	none on file	none on file

Source: races.csv ON-lanark-highlands-mayor, source SRC-LT1-021, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 1

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: Ron Closs — running in 2026: no
Open seat: yes
Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 2)
2022 baseline: turnout 33.66% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: yes
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Name	Registered	Website	Public contact
Peter Forshaw	2026-05-20	none on file	none on file
Keith Michaud	2026-05-19	none on file	none on file

Source: races.csv ON-lanark-highlands-council-w01, source SRC-LT1-021, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 2

ON-lanark-highlands-council-w02

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Steve Roberts — running in 2026: unknown
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 0 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 0)
2022 baseline: turnout 33.66% · margin 14.56 pts · acclaimed: no
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

No candidates on file for this race yet. (races.csv lists 0 registrant(s) as of 2026-08-03; candidates.csv has no matching rows — check the clerk link above directly, this dataset may simply not have caught up.)

Source: races.csv ON-lanark-highlands-council-w02, source SRC-LT1-021, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 3

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: Allison Vereyken — running in 2026: unknown
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
2022 baseline: turnout 33.66% · margin 41.2 pts · acclaimed: no
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (1, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Name	Registered	Website	Public contact
Barry Gervais	undated	none on file	none on file

Source: races.csv ON-lanark-highlands-council-w03, source SRC-LT1-021, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 4

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: Marina Summers — running in 2026: unknown
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
2022 baseline: turnout 33.66% · margin 50.25 pts · acclaimed: no
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (2, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Name	Registered	Website	Public contact
Peter Forshaw	2026-05-20	none on file	none on file
Keith Michaud	2026-05-19	none on file	none on file

Source: races.csv ON-lanark-highlands-council-w04, source SRC-LT1-021, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 5

ON-lanark-highlands-council-w05

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Jeannie Kelso — running in 2026: unknown
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 0 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 0)
2022 baseline: turnout 33.66% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: yes
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Source: races.csv ON-lanark-highlands-council-w05, source SRC-LT1-021, as_of 2026-08-03.

Deputy_mayor — at-large

ON-lanark-highlands-deputy-mayor

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Bill King — running in 2026: no
Open seat: yes
Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
2022 baseline: turnout 33.66% · margin 15.61 pts · acclaimed: no
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (1, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Name	Registered	Website	Public contact
Frank Sodonis	2026-06-11	none on file	none on file

Source: races.csv ON-lanark-highlands-deputy-mayor, source SRC-LT1-021, as_of 2026-08-03.

How to correct an error

This page is generated mechanically from municipalities.csv / races.csv / candidates.csv; it is not hand-edited. If anything above is wrong, out of date, or missing:

Check the candidate's own current public campaign site or social account, and the municipality's own live candidate list (linked above) — those are the primary sources this page draws from.
Corrections should point to a public, verifiable source (a candidate's own site, a clerk record, an official results document) — unsourced claims about any candidate are not taken.
This page should be regenerated from the source CSVs after any correction, not edited in place.

This page’s figures come from this project’s own published election dataset, regenerated from the source CSVs on each run.

Provisional — nominations close 2026-08-21.