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No more than seven names will appear on Winnipeg’s mayoral ballot next month, as three registered candidates didn’t make the nomination deadline.

When the doors closed at the City Clerk’s office at city hall on Tuesday afternoon, Mike Vogiatzakis and Hazem Aslan did not have enough valid signatures on their nomination forms to make it on to the Oct. 22 ballot.

BARTLEY KIVES / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Michael Vogiatzakis, outside the City Clerk’s office, after learning he did not have enough valid nomination signatures to appear on the Oct. 22 mayoral ballot.

Another registered candidate, Buck Duchene, did not submit nomination papers.

"This is what you call bureaucracy at its best," said a dejected Vogiatzakis outside the City Clerk’s office.

Mayoral candidates are required to submit 250 signatures on their nomination forms. In order to be valid, the names and addresses must match up to names on the city’s list of registered voters.

Vogiatzakis said he brought 450 signatures but nonetheless fell short. He had been campaigning since May 5. Aslan registered on Aug. 22 and Duchene registered on Sept. 6.

Barring any withdrawals on Wednesday, the final day to quit the campaign, Winnipeg’s mayoral candidates are lawyer Brian Bowman, booking agent Michel Fillion, Charleswood-Tuxedo Coun. Paula Havixbeck, University of Manitoba administrator Robert-Falcon Ouellette, former provincial administrator David Sanders, former St. Vital councilor Gord Steeves and former NDP MP and MLA Judy Wasylycia-Leis.

There will be no more than 60 candidates for the 15 council wards, with two to six candidates nominated in each. River Heights-Fort Garry has the least candidates — incumbent John Orlikow and former city entomologist Taz Stuart — while there are six candidates each in Daniel McIntyre and St. Charles, where Harvey Smith and Grant Nordman are the respective incumbents.