John Dooley has been elected mayor of Nelson.
Dooley won 2,290 votes, defeating challenger Debra Kozak who won 1,904 votes according to Civicinfo BC.
Incumbent Janice Morrison has won another term on council, and will be joined by newcomers Richard Logtenberg, Brittny Anderson, Jesse Woodward, Calvin Renwick and Keith Page.
Below is the full list of mayoral and councillor candidates in Nelson.
Candidates
Mayor:
Bernie Brown
John Dooley
Debra Kozak (incumbent)
Council:
Robert G. Adams (incumbent)
Brittny Anderson
Laureen Barker
Robin Cherbo (incumbent)
Travis Hauck
Michelle Hillaby
Charles H. Jeanes
Robbie Kalabis
Heather Keczan
Richard Logtenberg
Janice Morrison (incumbent)
Keith Page
Leslie Payne
Anna Purcell (incumbent)
Joseph Reiner
Calvin Renwick
Rob Richichi
Brian Shields
Margaret E. Stacey
Stephanie Wiggins
Jesse Woodward
Boundary
The City of Nelson is situated alongside the Kootenay River, and about 33 kilometres from Kootenay lake.
Population (2016)
10,572
History
Silver is a dominant theme in Nelson‘s history.
One story has it that a prospector kicked a rock and found silver purely by chance.
Another story has it that a group of prospectors were fruitlessly trying their luck on Toad Mountain in 1886.
As they prepared to go home, they found a copper-silver deposit.
And so Nelson was born.
The town site was established in 1890 and its population had grown to 3,000 seven years later.
Two railroads supported mining and the town just kept growing.
When mining declined, forestry became Nelson’s dominant industry. Then Notre Dame College was established in 1950, and today, Nelson has Selkirk College, the Kootenay School of the Arts and more.
Draft dodgers who avoided the Vietnam War came to Nelson in the 1960s and ’70s, and many stayed there even after an amnesty in 1977.
Median total income of couple economic families with children (2015)/B.C. median
$102,758/$111,736
Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016
RCMP — municipal/B.C.
84.99 (+5.25)/93.63 (-0.71)
RCMP — rural/B.C.
31.79 (+18.58)/93.63 (-0.71)
Violent Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016
RCMP — municipal/B.C.
61.07 (-13.22)/74.86 (-9.81)
RCMP — rural/B.C.
42.73 (+170.96)/74.86 (-9.81)
Political representation
Federal
Wayne Stetski (NDP)
Provincial
Michelle Mungall (BC NDP)