A day after Calgarians went to the polls to elect a new mayor, city council and school board trustees, the unofficial results of the races are in.
Here are the new members of Calgary city council.
In Ward 14, Landon Johnston, the man who led the recall Gondek campaign, will be the new councillor, replacing Peter Demong who decided not to run again after representing the ward for the past 14 years.
Johnston won with nearly double the number of votes as his nearest competitor, independent candidate Devin Elkin.
In Ward 13, incumbent councillor Dan McLean of the Communities First party won re-election with nearly double the votes cast for Elliot Weinstein of The Calgary Party.
In Ward 12, the unofficial results show that Mike Jamieson of A Better Calgary Party, managed to squeak out a narrow victory over The Calgary Party’s Sarah Ferguson, winning by less than 30 votes.
In Ward 11, Rob Ward of the Communities First party handily defeated incumbent councillor Kourtney Penner, who ran as an independent.
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Ward received more than double the number of votes as Penner and nearly five times as many as those cast for Alex Williams of The Calgary Party.
In Ward 10, incumbent Andre Chabot of the Communities First party will be re-elected with nearly three times as many votes as Nickie Brockhoff of The Calgary Party.
This will be Chabot’s sixth term on council, having served from 2005 to 2017 and then re-elected in 2021.
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In Ward 9, the unofficial results show that independent Harrison Clark managed to hold on for a narrow victory over independent candidate Gar Gar.
The winning margin was less than 300 votes.
In Ward 8, independent candidate Nathaniel Schmidt managed to prevail in a close battle with Communities First candidate Cornelia Wiebe.
Schmidt received almost 9,000 votes, compared to the almost 8,000 votes that Wiebe got.
In Ward 7, independent candidate Myke Atkinson upset incumbent councillor Terry Wong, who ran under the Communities First banner in this election, after Wong was elected in 2021 to replace longtime councillor Druh Farrell.
In Ward 6, independent candidate John Pantazopoulos will be a newcomer on council after he outpolled his closest challengers, Inam Teja of The Calgary Party and independent Joanne Birce, by about two votes to one.
In Ward 5, independent candidate Raj Dhaliwal managed to win a second term on council, with close to double the number of votes as his closest competitor, independent candidate Aryan Sadat.
In Ward 4, DJ Kelly of The Calgary Party is projected to prevail over Communities First candidate Jeremy Wong, in a closely contested race.
The margin of victory was about 1,400 votes.
In Ward 3, where there was a total of eight people in the running to replace Jasmine Mian, who did not run for re-election, independent candidate Andrew Yule pulled away from the pack with nearly triple the votes of his nearest competitor, Christy Edwards of A Better Calgary Party.
In Ward 2, independent incumbent Jennifer Wyness has been be elected to serve a second term on council, defeating her closest competitor, John Garden of A Better Calgary Party.
And in Ward 1, Communities First candidate Kim Tyers is projected to be the new councillor after her narrow victory over Joey Nowak of The Calgary Party.
Vote counting in Calgary resumed early Tuesday morning, but has been agonizingly slow because of new provincial government legislation that requires all ballots to be counted by hand and prohibits the use of electronic vote tabulators.
The 14 councillors will join new mayor, Jeromy Farkas, on council, after he defeated runner-up Sonya Sharp in the mayoral race by just 585 votes.
Incumbent mayor Jyoti Gondek came in third, well behind the two front-runners.
She conceded in a speech to supporters late Monday evening, signalling an end to her term as the first woman to be elected mayor of Calgary.
The results of all Alberta municipal elections must be submitted to the provincial government by noon on Friday, Oct. 24.
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