Sarah Doucette is a Canadian

Canada

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 politician, who was elected to Toronto City Council

Toronto City Council

The Toronto City Council is the governing body of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Members represent wards throughout the city, and are known as councillors....

 in the 2010 city council election

Toronto city council election, 2010

For information on the campaign for mayor see Toronto mayoral election, 2010The 2010 Toronto council election was held on October 25, 2010 to elect councillors to represent Toronto's 44 wards at Toronto City Council...

, defeating Bill Saundercook

Bill Saundercook

Bill Saundercook was a city councillor in Toronto, Canada for Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park. He represented one of the two Parkdale—High Park wards. A teacher from a family of teachers, Saundercook holds a B.Ed., M.A. and M.Ed.-Background:...

 in Ward 13, Parkdale–High Park. Doucette was born in Winchester, Hampshire but grew up on the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

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, in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 in the 1960s. Doucette came to Canada in 1980. She and her husband have two children. They have lived in the Swansea

Swansea, Toronto

Swansea is a neighbourhood in the City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, bounded on the west by the Humber River, on the north by Bloor Street, on the east by High Park and on the south by Lake Ontario...

 neighbourhood of Toronto for fifteen years. 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.

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 1990s.

Election results

2010 Toronto election Toronto city council election, 2010 For information on the campaign for mayor see Toronto mayoral election, 2010The 2010 Toronto council election was held on October 25, 2010 to elect councillors to represent Toronto's 44 wards at Toronto City Council... , Ward 13
Candidate	Votes	%
Sarah Doucette	10,100	47.045%
Bill Saundercook	7,893	36.765%
Nick Pavlov	2,109	9.823%
Redmond Weissenberger	1,139	5.305%
Jackelyn Van Altenberg	228	1.062%
Total	21,469	100%

Official results.

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