Sarah Doucette

Sarah Doucette
Sarah Doucette
	Sarah Doucette as she appeared in 2010
Former Toronto City Councillor
	In office; December 1, 2010 – November 30, 2018
Preceded by	Bill Saundercook
Constituency	Ward 13, Parkdale–High Park
Personal details
Born	Winchester, United Kingdom
Nationality	British, Canadian
Children	2
Occupation	Public Administrator

Sarah Doucette (/duːˈsɛt/ ^ⓘ doo-SET) is a Canadian politician, who served on Toronto City Council from 2010 to 2018. In the 2010 city council election, Doucette defeated Bill Saundercook in Ward 13, Parkdale–High Park.^[1] Doucette was born in Winchester, Hampshire but grew up on the Isle of Wight, in the United Kingdom in the 1960s.^[2] Doucette came to Canada in 1980. She and her husband have two children. They have lived in the Swansea neighbourhood of Toronto for fifteen years.^[2] Doucette worked at the Swansea Town Hall since 2004 and in 2008, she became executive assistant to the executive director. To run for city council she had to take a leave of absence from her job. The 2010 election race was her first campaign.^[3] She was re-elected in 2014, but decided not to run in the 2018 election.^[4]

Doucette comes from a long line of municipal politicians. Both her grandfather and her mother were city councillors and were then elected as mayors: he, in Winchester in 1953, and she in the county of the Isle of Wight, during the 1990s.^[2] Doucette supported Peggy Nash in her bid to become leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.^[5]^[6]

Election results

2014 Toronto Election, Ward 13
Candidate	Votes	%
Sarah Doucette	16,202	65.6
Nick Pavlov	2,628	10.6
Eugene Melnyk	1,202	4.9
Taras Kulish	1,145	4.6
8 other candidates.^[a]	3,514	14.2
Total	24,691	99.9

Candidate	Votes	%
2010 Toronto election, Ward 13 ^[7]
Sarah Doucette	10,100	47.04
Bill Saundercook	7,893	36.76
Nick Pavlov	2,109	9.82
Redmond Weissenberger	1,139	5.30
Jackelyn Van Altenberg	228	1.06
Total	21,469	100%

References

^ Candidates who posted less than 1,000 votes were: Thomas Dempsey, Matthew Bielaski, Alex Perez, Evan Tummillo, Rishi Sharma, Greg Lada, István Tar, Bohdan Spas

^ Porter, Catherine (October 26, 2010). "Porter: Female breakthrough on Toronto city council". The Toronto Star. Toronto: Torstar. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rainford, Lisa (October 26, 2010). "Doucette captures Ward 13". Bloor West Villager. Toronto: InsideToronto. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
^ Rainford, Lisa; Erin Hatfield (October 26, 2010). "Consultation, Visioning in store for west-end wards". Bloor West Villager. Toronto: InsideToronto. Retrieved November 3, 2010.
^ "Sarah Doucette". Archived from the original on October 26, 2018.
^ "Who Supports Whom in NDP Leadership Race". The Hill Times. Ottawa. March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 26, 2012.
^ "Peggy Nash Campaign at the NDP Convention". Press Release. Toronto: Peggy Nash. March 23, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2012.
^ Watkiss, Uli S. (October 28, 2010). "Official Declaration of Results of Voting Monday, October 25, 2010" (PDF). Toronto Votes. City Clerk's Office, City of Toronto. Retrieved November 3, 2010.