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Conservative Will Bouma’s third term in office was never in doubt after he took an early lead in Thursday’s provincial election and never looked back. 

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Bouma’s final vote count of 24,169 was more than double that of his closest competitor, Havey Bischof of the NDP, who finished with 12,002 votes. 

Bouma had 47.3 per cent of the 51,139 total votes cast. Bischof had 23.5 per cent of the vote share. 

The 2022 provincial election ended much the same way for the two challengers when Bouma won with 20,738 votes and Bischof, who served on the provincial executive of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation before entering politics, came second with 13,283 votes. 

Placing third in Thursday’s election was Liberal Ron Fox, a Brantford realtor and former longtime Tim Hortons franchisee, who earned 10,364 votes, or 20.3 per cent of total votes cast.  

The Green Party’s Karleigh Csordas finished with 2,567 votes, followed by Joshua Carron of the New Blue Party with 1,138 votes, Libertarian Rob Ferguson with 500 votes; Mike Clancy of None of the Above Party with 316 votes, and Jennifer Carruthers of the Alliance Party with 83 votes. 

In the 2022 provincial election, 46,953 votes (42% of eligible voters) were cast in Brantford-Brant.     

After Bouma and Bischof, Liberal Ruby Toor took third place with 6,083 votes, followed by the Green Party’s Karleigh Csordas with 3,174; New Blue Tad Brudzinski with 2,089; Ontario Party candidate Allan Wilson with 640; Canadians’ Choice candidate Leslie Bory with 490; Libertarian Rob Ferguson with 299; and Independent John Turmel with 157.  

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