Open Council Ontario Municipal Election 2022 Report

Open Council put together Wikipedia-like profiles of all of Belleville’s election candidates including the public school board trustees. These profiles collected all of the publicly available facts about the candidates from their own websites and social media, as well as from trusted third-party sources such as local news websites and linked to the source of each fact or quote included.

These profiles were posted here on the website as well as on Open Council’s Reddit, Twitter and Facebook pages.

Website

In the 7 days leading up to and including election day, this website received 1,000 unique visitors who spent a collective 3 days 4 hours and 40 minutes reading about the candidates. In order, the most viewed candidates were:

Mike Benson
Nick Boretski
Sarita Van Dyke
Lisa Anne Chatten
Amanda Robertson
Barbara Enright-Miller
Robert Labarge

Open Council subreddit

Each of the profiles was posted in full to the /r/OpenCouncil subreddit. In October, the subreddit received 954 unique visitors and 8,899 pageviews.

Community subreddit

The /r/OpenCouncil subreddit with all of the profiles was posted to Belleville’s subreddit. One of the Redditors requested that it be pinned to the top of the subreddit, which was later done by the mod. That post received a total of 3,100 views and 30 comments.

For those who have not yet voted: here are Wikipedia-like profiles of Belleville’s municipal election candidates that I put together after lots of research from BellevilleOntario

The reaction to the resource was overwhelmingly positive:

Comment from discussion IsNotAwesome’s comment from discussion "For those who have not yet voted: here are Wikipedia-like profiles of Belleville’s municipal election candidates that I put together after lots of research".

Comment from discussion double_eyelid’s comment from discussion "For those who have not yet voted: here are Wikipedia-like profiles of Belleville’s municipal election candidates that I put together after lots of research".

Comment from discussion kelly10047630’s comment from discussion "For those who have not yet voted: here are Wikipedia-like profiles of Belleville’s municipal election candidates that I put together after lots of research".

Comment from discussion wannabe_librarian_4u’s comment from discussion "For those who have not yet voted: here are Wikipedia-like profiles of Belleville’s municipal election candidates that I put together after lots of research".

Comment from discussion Dawkinz’s comment from discussion "For those who have not yet voted: here are Wikipedia-like profiles of Belleville’s municipal election candidates that I put together after lots of research".

Comment from discussion bixmiester’s comment from discussion "For those who have not yet voted: here are Wikipedia-like profiles of Belleville’s municipal election candidates that I put together after lots of research".