Stratford, City of

Provisional — data as of 2026-08-01; 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.

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Municipality facts

Tier: single
Upper tier: none (single-tier)
Population (2021 Census): 33232

Official links

Clerk's election page: https://www.stratford.ca/en/inside-city-hall/municipalelection.aspx
Candidate list: https://www.stratford.ca/inside-city-hall/municipal-elections/candidates-for-the-2026-municipal-and-school-board-elections/
2022 results: none on file
Coverage status (this dataset's own honesty flag): census, as of 2026-08-01

Races on file (5)

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: none on file (open seat or not researched)
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 5 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 5)
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (5, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Name	Registered	Website	Public contact
Jo-Dee Burbach	undated	https://www.jodeeburbach.com/	jodeeburbach2026@gmail.com
Christopher Burrell	undated	none on file	christopherglennburrell@gmail.com; (226) 926-4133
Mark Hunter	undated	none on file	mark@huntersteel.ca; (519) 831-5855; (519) 273-3151
Andrew Rea	undated	none on file	none on file
Robert Ritz	undated	https://www.ritzfor26.ca	robert@ritzfor26.ca; (519) 271-6466; (416) 720-9829; bradcbeatty@hotmail.com

Source: races.csv ON-stratford-mayor, source https://www.stratford.ca/inside-city-hall/municipal-elections/candidates-for-the-2026-municipal-and-school-board-elections/, as_of 2026-08-03.

Councillor — At-large (10 seats)

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Seats: 10
Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 2 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 13)
2022 baseline: turnout 43.91% · margin not on file 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
Christopher Giannakopoulos	undated	none on file	cgiannak@uwaterloo.ca; 519-274-2510; (519) 274-2510
Sarah Merkel	undated	none on file	smerkel2@gmail.com; 519-949-0987

Source: races.csv ON-stratford-council-at-large, source https://www.stratford.ca/inside-city-hall/municipal-elections/candidates-for-the-2026-municipal-and-school-board-elections/, as_of 2026-08-03.

Trustee — HPCDSB — Stratford zone (English Catholic)

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 1 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 1)
2022 baseline: turnout 43.91% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
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
Laurie Thomson	undated	none on file	none on file

Source: races.csv ON-BD-hpcdsb-trustee-stratford, source https://www.stratford.ca/inside-city-hall/municipal-elections/candidates-for-the-2026-municipal-and-school-board-elections/, as_of 2026-08-03.

Trustee — AMDSB — Stratford zone (English Public)

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 3 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 3)
2022 baseline: turnout 43.9% · margin 6.46 pts · acclaimed: no
Competitiveness tier (provisional, this dataset's own label): U-unknown

Filed candidates (3, alphabetical by surname; identical fields for everyone):

Name	Registered	Website	Public contact
Michael Bannerman	undated	none on file	mcbannerman@rogers.com; 519-703-0885; (519) 703-0885
Deepika Mishra	undated	none on file	deepikamishra3478@gmail.com; 416-709-9630; (416) 709-9630
Jamie-Lee Wagler	undated	https://www.jamiewagler.ca/	(519) 588-4964

Source: races.csv ON-BD-amdsb-trustee-stratford, source https://www.stratford.ca/inside-city-hall/municipal-elections/candidates-for-the-2026-municipal-and-school-board-elections/, as_of 2026-08-03.

Trustee — CSCPROVIDENCE — Stratford zone (French Catholic)

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Seats: 1
Incumbent: none on file (open seat or not researched)
Open seat: unknown
Filed candidates on file below: 0 (races.csv's own registrant count as of 2026-08-03: 0)
2022 baseline: turnout 43.91% · margin not on file pts · acclaimed: unknown
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-BD-cscprovidence-trustee-stratford, source https://www.stratford.ca/inside-city-hall/municipal-elections/candidates-for-the-2026-municipal-and-school-board-elections/, 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.