{{Short description|Mayor of Winnipeg since 2022}} {{Use Canadian English|date=February 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = His Worship | name = Scott Gillingham | honorific_suffix = | image = Scott Gillingham at U.S. Consulate Winnipeg 2022 (cropped).jpg | alt = | caption = Gillingham in 2022 | order = 44th | office = Mayor of Winnipeg | status = | term_start = November 1, 2022 | term_end = | predecessor = Brian Bowman | successor = | office1 = Winnipeg City Councillor for St. James | term_start1 = October 22, 2014 | term_end1 = October 26, 2022 | predecessor1 = Scott Fielding | successor1 = Shawn Dobson | constituency1 = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth based on age as of date|54|2022|10|26}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://winnipeg.citynews.ca/2022/10/26/scott-gillingham-elected-mayor-winnipeg/|title=Scott Gillingham elected mayor of Winnipeg after close race with Glen Murray|first=Kelsey|last=Patterson|date=October 26, 2022|publisher=CityNews}}</ref> | birth_place = Brandon, Manitoba, Canada | party = Independent | other_party = | alma_mater = {{plainlist| * Horizon College and Seminary * Canadian Mennonite University }} | occupation = {{hlist|Politician|pastor}} | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = }}
'''Scott Gillingham''' is a Canadian politician who currently serves as the 44th mayor of Winnipeg, being elected on October 26, 2022. Before being elected as mayor, he was the city councillor for St. James from 2014 to 2022. He was sworn in as the mayor of Winnipeg on November 1, 2022.
== Biography == Gillingham was born in Brandon, Manitoba, and raised on a farm near Carman. He played hockey in his youth, including stints with the Steinbach Hawks, Dauphin Kings and Winkler Flyers of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://winnipeg.ca/interhom/mayor/default.asp |title=Mayor Scott Gillingham|publisher=City of Winnipeg|accessdate=November 1, 2022}}</ref>
In his early 20s, Gillingham completed a diploma in pastoral theology at Horizon College and Seminary in Saskatoon and later graduate studies at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg.<ref>{{cite web|title=CMU student elected to city council|publisher=Canadian Mennonite University|url=https://www.cmu.ca/community/blog/88}}</ref> He was a Pentecostal pastor before entering politics in 2014 as a member of the Winnipeg City Council.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gillingham-mayor-pastor-pentecostal-distance-homophobia-1.6626840|website=CBC News|date=October 24, 2022|author=Sam Samson|accessdate=October 26, 2022|title=Former Pentecostal pastor running for Winnipeg mayor says views on gay marriage changed years ago}}</ref> In 2021, he considered running in the 2021 Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba leadership election, but decided not to, citing the party's timeline.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/scott-gillingham-city-councillor-progressive-conservatives-1.6154371|work=CBC News|date=October 24, 2022|author=Ian Froese|accessdate=26 August 2021|title=Winnipeg city councillor won't seek PC leadership, blames party's timeline for undermining challengers}}</ref>
In 2022, he was elected mayor of Winnipeg.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/scott-gillingham-elected-as-winnipeg-s-next-mayor-1.6126958|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027031509/https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/scott-gillingham-elected-as-winnipeg-s-next-mayor-1.6126958|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 27, 2022|work=CTV News Winnipeg|date=October 26, 2022|accessdate=October 26, 2022|author=Danton Unger|title=Scott Gillingham elected as Winnipeg's next mayor}}</ref> In October 2025, Mayor Gillingham, along with a security guard, helped save a person's life outside of Winnipeg's City Hall by administering a naloxone kit to an individual who was overdosing.<ref>Pursaga, Joyanne. “Mayor, Security Guard Rush to Save Man Overdosing outside City Hall.” Winnipeg Free Press, 10 Oct. 2025, https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/briefings/mayors-naloxone-rescue-forestry-future-new-restaurant-manitoba-bolivia-development-hospital-art-rifles-finale.</ref>
==Electoral record== ===Municipal=== === 2022 Winnipeg mayoral election === {| class="wikitable" ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="200px"; colspan=2| Candidate ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | Votes<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 26, 2022 |title=2022 Elections - Unofficial Results |url=https://winnipeg.ca/clerks/election/election-2022/results/index.html#at/56417d52-8b05-4079-b158-971e4d583607/ar/2/}}</ref> ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | % |- | style="background:#d34e23;" | ! style="text-align:left; background:#{{HexShade|#cfc}};"|Scott Gillingham ! style="text-align:left; background:#{{HexShade|#cfc}};"|53,663 ! style="text-align:left; background:#{{HexShade|#cfc}};"|27.54 |- | style="background:#0142b4;" | |Glen Murray |49,272 |25.29 |- | style="background:#263766;" | |Kevin Klein |28,806 |14.78 |- | style="background:#ef3741;" | |Shaun Loney |28,567 |14.66 |- | style="background:#9562c3;" | |Robert-Falcon Ouellette |15,029 |7.71 |- | style="background:#f3d315;" | |Jenny Motkaluk |7,443 |3.82 |- | style="background:#03989e;" | |Rana Bokhari |5,900 |3.03 |- | style="background:#5f95ce;" | |Rick Shone |2,570 |1.32 |- | style="background:#b5186d;" | |Don Woodstock |1,889 |0.97 |- | style="background:#a40d30;" | |Idris Adelakun |1,263 |0.65 |- | style="background:#9562c3;" | |Chris Clacio |451 |0.23 |}
=== 2018 Winnipeg city council election === {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ St. James |- ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="200px" | Candidate ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | Votes ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | % |- style="text-align:left; background:#cfc;" | '''Scott Gillingham''' (X) ||9,130 ||55.43 |- | Shawn Dobson (X) ||5,740 ||34.85 |- | Kurt Morton ||1,601 ||9.72 |}
=== 2014 Winnipeg city council election === {| class="wikitable sortable" |+ St. James-Brooklands |- ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="200px" | Candidate ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | Votes ! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="50px" | % |- | Scott Gillingham || 5,174 || 43.69 |- | Bryan Metcalfe || 3,548 || 29.96 |- | Stefan Jonasson || 2,292 || 19.35 |- | Fred Morris || 828 || 6.99 |}
===Provincial=== {{2011 Manitoba general election/St. James}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://winnipeg.ca/interhom/mayor/default.asp Mayor’s Office, City of Winnipeg] * [https://voteforscott.ca/ Campaign website] * [https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=240852 Hockey DB profile]
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