Mel Lastman Mel Lastman The 2000 Toronto municipal election was the municipal and school board election of 2000 held in Toronto on November 13, 2000.

Law and order was a prominent theme during campaigning, as several candidates with past convictions ran for regional council seats.

Redistricting increased the number of wards from 28 to 44, but each ward only elected a single councillor, reducing the number of councillors from 56 to 44.

This created several battles between incumbents such as Gloria Lindsay Luby against Mario Giansante, David Miller versus Bill Saundercook, and Milton Berger against Anne Johnston.

For the most part, incumbents were re-elected: the major exception was Etobicoke where three incumbents -- Blake Kinahan, Elizabeth Brown, and Bruce Sinclair —were defeated.