Mike Savage Mike Savage The 2016 Halifax Regional Municipality municipal election was held on October 15, 2016, to elect councillors and a mayor to a four-year term on the Halifax Regional Council, the governing body of the Halifax Regional Municipality.

[1] On June 8, 2015, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board approved new boundaries for four of the districts.

[2] Districts 9 and 11 swap an area of new development along Northwest Arm Drive called Long Lake Village.

[3] In 2015, two councillors, Barry Dalrymple and Jennifer Watts, announced they would not be re-offering in 2016.

[4] Longtime councillor Gloria McCluskey followed suit in February 2016,[5] and in May another long-serving councillor, Reg Rankin said his current term would be his last.