Severn, Township of

Provisional — data as of 2026-07-27; 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-severn

Municipality facts

Tier: lower
Upper tier: Simcoe, County of
Population (2021 Census): 14576

Official links

Clerk's election page: https://www.severn.ca/our-government/elections/
Candidate list: none on file
2022 results: none on file
Coverage status (this dataset's own honesty flag): census, as of 2026-07-27

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

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: Mike Burkett — running in 2026: yes
Open seat: no
Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
2022 baseline: turnout 30.91% · margin 74.97 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
Mike Burkett	undated	none on file	mikehburkett@gmail.com; 705-955-8377

Source: races.csv ON-severn-mayor, source SRC-LT1-003, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 1

ON-severn-council-w01

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Mark Taylor — 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)
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
Keith Prentice	undated	none on file	prentice4ward1@gmail.com

Source: races.csv ON-severn-council-w01, source SRC-LT1-003, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 2

ON-severn-council-w02

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Dan Janssen — 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)
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
Colin Bidmead	undated	none on file	cbidmead65@gmail.com
Mark Missen	undated	none on file	mark4ward2@gmail.com

Source: races.csv ON-severn-council-w02, source SRC-LT1-003, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 3

ON-severn-council-w03

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Philip Brennan — running in 2026: yes
Open seat: no
Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
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
Phil Brennan	undated	https://www.linkedin.com/in/phil-brennan-30939687/	pjpbrennan@gmail.com

Source: races.csv ON-severn-council-w03, source SRC-LT1-003, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 4

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: Wanda Minnings — 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)
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-severn-council-w04, source SRC-LT1-003, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — Ward 5

ON-severn-council-w05

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Jim McIntyre — 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)
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
Jason Stanton	undated	none on file	stantonward5severn@gmail.com

Source: races.csv ON-severn-council-w05, source SRC-LT1-003, as_of 2026-08-03.

Deputy_mayor — at-large

ON-severn-deputy-mayor

Seats: 1
Incumbent: Judith Cox — 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 30.91% · margin 10.35 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
Suzanne Burtenshaw	undated	none on file	suzycoldwater@gmail.com; 705-715-6950
Jane Dunlop	undated	none on file	jane1951@live.ca; 705-970-7448

Source: races.csv ON-severn-deputy-mayor, source SRC-LT1-003, 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.