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Election 1971 GEORGETOWN MARKET ENVIRONMENT scored a landslide riding in rhursday Seventh Year Omens bad says George All the omens Thursday morning were bad Environment Minister George Kerr told the Free Press after his knock down and dragcmout election victory Pollution hi Burlington worst It had been this year When I drove north to Acton the smell from and Co was really keen he said suggesting he expected the worst But the tremendous enthusiasm of campaign workers and the reception he got from party workers as he toured polling stations buoyed George Kerr up By the time he had dinner at the Mohawk Inn and arrived back in Burlington that night his reelection was in the bag Jubilant crowd A jubilant election crowd at his Burlington election headquarters greeted the now confident Minister of the with enthusiasm cheering and shaking hands Children paraded up and down the streets of Burlington with election placards chanting Kerr wins TV cameras and reporters from county and metropolitan newspapers crowded around the figure anxious for interviews George Kerr forgot about pollution and environmental problems for a few hours as he willingly answered reporters questions There has never been a bigger or better organization In Acton he told the Free Press There was tremendous organization and the whole committee worked darn hard He singled out Acton president Bruce CargiU Gary Dawkins and Ross for special mention You know I can believe we piled up that much of a margin he said surveying figures along the wall of his campaign headquarters I lost three dollars to my own campaign workers he confided forecast the outcome more accurately than me Among helping Mr Kerr celebrate his victory at the Estaminet Inn Burlington were Warden Frank Mayor and Mrs Mr and Mrs John Shadbolt Mr and Mrs Maurice r Mr and Mrs Ian Galbraith Mr and Mrs Ted Pratt Mr and MINISTER George Kerr Watson County Board of Education Tom Watson Mr and Mrs Bruce Mr and Mrs Brian victory in the Halton West for Acton and Nassagaweya Cargdl Gait Mr and Mrs Cyril Bishop Esther Taylor Mr s provincial election Tom raises Mr Kerr hand in victory Staff and Mrs Mr and Mrs Ross Mr and Mrs photo Don McDonald and Patrick ACTON ONTARIO OCTOBER Snowslide in Halton East East voters reflected the province wide swing in favor of Bill Davis Conservative Thursday when they returned MPP and Minister Without Portfolio Jim Snow of Hornby to his seat in the Ontario Legislature Snow scored a resounding majority victory when he received 56 per cent of the popular vote and amassed a total of votes That was a plurality of over above liberal candidate Bob Blake who 9 votes and ran second And it was more than 14 votes of the third place finisher candidate Ken who votes Independent candidate McGrath of who ran a noncampaign in which he t spend a cent by his own admission polled 284 votes Returning officer P J of reports a record per cent or 38 of almost eligible voters in East went to the polls About more cast ballots in election than voted in the last provincial election In many of them aged to who were voting for the first time since the age of majority was lowered earlier this year Snow a popular politician since lie was first elected in said he was confident of a victory but never expected such a landslide in his favor Hl narrowly won his first race in 1967 coming in votes ahead of I nominee Robin last election was a cliff hanger affair which saw both the candidates surge ahead at various limes the evening as results of balloting How Halton East voted Here s a recap of how Halton East voters cast their ballots in Thursday provincial election Figures a supplied by Halton East returning officer J Cowan of and ore as yet do not include the service vote SUMMARY BY MUNICIPALITY Blake Gelok Snow 3718 NOTICE Daylight Saving Time Ends 2 AM SUNDAY OCT 31st in the Town of Acton PLEASE TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK ONE HOUR J Hurst Clerk Administrator Town of Acton were heme posted But tally of votes was a one sided affair by comparison Snow led by a healthy margin when the first of 200 polls was reported five minutes after the polls closed and he held that lead all evening Quick results He was unofficially reelected within an hour after results started flowing into the returning officer although it took three hours to gather all the results from across the county Snow wis never really In trouble it wis evident from the results posted at Oakville Town Hall by the returning officer staff He led that first poll with votes to Blake and McGr ith s one That was poll No in but the story was the same everywhere as Snow racked up poll victory after poll victory Hie incumbent MPP only lost three of the polls all of them in He swept every poll in Georgetown Fsqucsing and Milton leads NDP standard bearer in some over the previous election actually be Blake in one quesine poll two in Milton in Georgetown and in Oakville tow in sail Snow received per cent of Oil votes Blake 25 per cent ek per cent mil per cent Snows 158 votes came to more than a over the other three inch votes believed to be the first majority deusim in in over a icntur All the said it had been clean two month impawn that wis waged on the I ustins in I ist With the exception of several instances of stiUn or election then were no reports of and no namecalling mud slinging tatties were imoked There were more meet thee dales meetings in this election than iver before complaints lection itself passed with minor difficulties pointing to job of and preparation by returning officer Cowan and his staff There were only a few of being left off the lists t en the compilation of results was a streamlined t lection was exciting as but the one sided victory soon deflated the hopes of workers in liberal and headquarters whde the PC party workers appeared confident of a win as soon as the first few poll returns were received Snow and Blake spent the part of the evening touring their branch offices in Georgetown and Milton before returning to their head quarters for the remainder of the evening A BIG MAN with i big cigar Jim Snow is engrossed in checking the results of Thursday s provincial election balloting at Oakville headquirters His apparent consternation wasn t necessary as he handily won the Halton East to launch his second term is an MPP Staff Photo 77 vote in West Returning Officer Gordon Jocdicke said his figures showed per cent of West voters cast ballots In Thursday a provincial Although he t broken figures down Into percentages and totals for the various municipalities in the riding he felt the percentage of voters ran close in all parts of the riding In Acton voters turned out to give Kerr a winning margin of slightly over per cent which was below the riding a overage of per cent of the vote which the Conservatives captured but above the provincial average of per cent voters in that strip of land which across Sideroad to the north of the county gave George Kerr votes Bob and Walter Mulkewich In six polls voters left no doubt where they stood in the three cornered race placing George Kerr well out In front with votes Bob McNutt came in second in their affections with and Walter Mulkewich a close third with 314 Burlington of course plumped vigorously for Mr Clean gave McNutt second and the man third place Following are the figures by polls for Acton and a as they were posted election night and since endorsed by the returning officer ACTON Ken McNutt Mulke Poll Kerr McNutt 90 ADVANCE POLL ESQUESING POU Kerr McNutt TOTAL ADVANCE POLL