Markham municipal election 2018: complete coverage

Yorkregion.com
October 12, 2018

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Number of trustee candidates soars following troubled term of York board

Candidate profiles
Please note, we have tried to contact every candidate to invite them to submit their profiles and photos. Those linked below are the responses we have received so far.

Mayor

• Steven Chen
• Shan Hua Lu
• Abdul Rahman Malik
• Frank Scarpitti
• Jawed Syed

Regional councillor

• Nirmala Armstrong
• Don Hamilton
• Jack Heath
• Niran Jeyanesan
• Jim Jones
• Ray Lai
• Jeffrey Lee
• Jeff Leung
• Joe Li
• Aaron Madar
• Tammy Mok
• Peter Pavlovic

Ward 1 councillor

• Caryn Bergmann
• Keith Irish
• Jasmine Kang
• Ricardo Mashregi
• Barry Nelson
• Hilary Neubauer
• Howard Shore
• Peter Wong

Ward 2 councillor

• Tammy Armes
• Tom Brindley
• Alan Ho
• Charles Jiang
• Larry Lau
• Bola Otaraki

Ward 3 councillor

• Ed Law
• Soraya Mangal
• Reid McAlpine
• Shanta Sundarason
• Jennifer Carrie Wan

Ward 4 councillor

• Ivy Lee
• Karen Rea
• Shaarmina A. Rodrigo
• Viradhi Sansanwal

Ward 5 councillor

• Scott Au
• Ashok Bangia
• Tommy Chan
• Compass Chung
• Andrew Keyes
• Marlene Mogado
• Rajeev Narang
• Sean O’Leary
• Mo Shakir
• Sri Sivasubramaniam
• Jeremiah Vijeyaratnam
• Fred K. Wong
• Grace Woo

Ward 6 councillor

• Victor Chan
• Amanda Yeung Collucci
• Arif Mahmood
• Gin Siow
• Shawn Wang

Ward 7 councillor

• Killi Chelliah
• Sundy Huang
• Johnson Irimpan
• Kethika Logan Kanapathi
• Mohammed Rahman
• Sothy Sella
• Elaguppillai (Mike) Srinathan
• Khalid Usman
• Malar Varatharaja

Ward 8 councillor

• Alex Chiu --WITHDRAWN
• Benson Lau
• Isa Lee
• Joseph (Mohan) Remisiar
• Howard Shen

York Region District School Board trustee
Area 1 (Markham Ward 1 and Vaughan Ward 5)

• Sahar Adaskar
• Brenndon Goodman
• Aviva Polonsky
• David Sherman
• Todd Silverman
• Simon Strelchik

Area 2 (wards 2, 3 and 6)

• Kevin Chan
• Edward Choi
• Catherine Leung
• Jerrica Lin
• AJ Luo
• Ron Lynn
• Lisa Ren
• Ada Yeung

Area 3 (wards 4 and 5)

• George M. George
• Michael Kim
• Rukshan Para
• Amit Sharda
• Allan Tam

Area 4 (wards 7 and 8)

• Sonia Babra
• Ali Chatha
• Sabbir Chawala
• Jenny Chen
• Gagan Garcha
• Charanjeet Singh Lamba
• Juanita Nathan
• Kavitha Senthil
• Taha Shaikh

York Catholic District School Board trustee
Area 1 (Wards 1, 2, 3 and 6)

• Carol Cotton
• Nader Deif

Area 2 (Wards 4, 5, 7 and 8)

• Patrice Chisholm
• Sam Cuda
• James Ecker
• Albert Ko
• Ben Smith

Conseil scolaire Viamonde trustee

• François Guérin
• Karine Ricard

Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir trustee

• Kathleen Beal
• Maxime Papillon