Sarah Doucette

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]

Sarah Doucette
Doucette 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

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

2010 Toronto election, Ward 13 [7]
Candidate	Votes	%
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%