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Wednesday, December 5, 2012 1937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Orono Weekly Times - 11 BYELECTION Continued from page 9 achieved 32 per cent, Bowmanville resident Grant Humes garnered 15 per cent of the vote, and Ervin got 4 per cent. In O'Tooles hometown of Courtice, he achieved 47 per cent of the votes casted, O'Connor won 30 per cent of those who got out and voted. Humes won 18 per cent of voters in the area, and Ervin got just over 4 per cent of the vote. In Uxbridge and Scugog result were no different from the rest of the riding. Uxbridge gave Erin O'Toole 50 per cent of the votes cast; O'Connor achieved 22 per cent of the votes, Humes ended up achieving 21 per cent of the vote. Ervin came in a distant 4th with five per cent of the vote. The Conservative Party was the only party to lose support in the byelection in the Uxbridge area. Liberal, NDP, and Green support went up. Scugog support for the Green and Conservatives went down, while NDP and Liberal support were up in the byelection. O'Toole still managed to garner 50 per cent of the vote in the election. Voter turnout in Uxbridge was under 30 per cent, down 24 per cent from the general election. Scugog turnout was down 19 per cent. photo supplied Wallace Boughen (C) of Newtonville was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal at Monday night's council meeting for all the good work he has done over the years in his community. Pictured with Boughen are Mayor Adrian Foster (L) and Ward 4 Councillor Wendy Partner. Advance poll turnout was higher during the byelection than in the general election in 2012. Turnout was at 17 per cent of all votes casted, in 2011 advance poll turnout was Orono Crown Lands Trust Raffle Draw Will Take Place At The Orono Country Cafe At Noon On Friday, December 7, 2012 "Caring for Tomorrow" at 14 per cent. Conservatives received 54 per cent of the ballots cast during the advance polls, NDP support was at 22 per cent, Liberal support during the three days was at 18 per cent and Green Party support was at three per cent. In the previous general election Bev Oda won all the polls, in the riding of Durham. During this byelection Erin O'Toole took all but 16 polls, losing 15 polls, and one mobile poll. Asked if Elections Canada had any complaints during the byelection, Benson stated, "I cannot say if there were any, it's not standard practice to release any issues that voters might have had during the byelection until a solution is found, but if a voter does have a complaint or issue about the byelection we want to hear from them." Len Creamer, Clarington Bylaw Officer says that complaints were heard in his office from around the municipality about the usage of signs and sign location in the byelection, "Residents came forward with complaints against all parties. My office will be sending out bills to all candidates in the following week. Each candidate gets charged for the cost of removal of a sign, small signs are charged $25.00 per sign removal, and larger signs are charged on a case to case basis." Creamer said that this was not the worse he's seen in cases of bylaw infractions, "There have been worse elections for problems caused by signs." The Clarington sign bylaw states two signs from the same candidate cannot be within 500 meters of each other, unless on private property. It also states signs must not be within the turning radius of the road and must not be on traffic islands. One of the deputy poll clerks in Newcastle said to the Orono Weekly Times "It was the lowest turn out that I've ever seen." Two other byelections were held on November 26th, one was held in the riding of Victoria in British Columbia, and the other byelection was held in the riding of CalgaryCenter Alberta, NDP Murray Rankin and Conservative Joan Crockett won in the ridings respectively. One in Victoria British Columbia, and another in Calgary Centre in Alberta. MP-elect Erin O'Toole was the only elected candidate to receive over 50 per cent of the cast ballots in their riding. www.oronocrownlands.com oronocrownlands@gmail.com