With 47.9 per cent of the vote, Fred Haynes was elected Saanich’s mayor.
Susan Brice, Judy Brownoff, Nathalie Chambers, Zac de Vries, Karen Harper, Rebecca J Mersereau, Colin Plant and Ned Taylor were elected councillors.
Candidates
Mayor
Richard Atwell (incumbent)
Fred J Haynes (elected)
David Shebib
Rob Wickson
Council
Benjamin Allan
Trevor Barry
Susan Brice (incumbent and elected)
Judy Brownoff (incumbent and elected)
Kathleen Burton
Nathalie Chambers (elected)
Zac de Vries (elected)
Karen Harper (incumbent and elected)
Ian Jessop
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Vernon D Lord
Rebecca J Mersereau (elected)
Cory Montgomery
Shawn Newby
Teale Phelps Bondaroff
Colin Plant (incumbent and elected)
Art Pollard
Rishi Sharma
Ned Taylor (elected)
Boundary
Saanich is located about four kilometres north of Victoria on the southern end of Vancouver island.
Population (2016)
114,148
History
The Saanich Peninsula was once roamed by wildlife such as mammoths and great bison.
Then the WSÁNEC First Nation lived there, making a home at a village known as STÁUTW, or Tsawout.
Fort Victoria would be established in the 1840s, and Europeans started to settle the peninsula.
Settlers would start farming the land, and businesses such as the Prairie Tavern would be established in the mid-19th century.
The first school would come to the peninsula in 1864, and the Saanich Fair would be held at that site before it started being held in Saanichton in the 1870s.
Median total income of couple economic families with children (2015)/B.C. median
$122,029/$111,736
Crime Severity Index (CSI) — 2016/B.C.
40.16 (-5.64)/93.63 (-0.71)
Violent Crime Severity Index (VCSI) — 2016/B.C.
33.29 (-16.15)/74,86 (-9.81)
Political representation
Federal
Elizabeth May (Green)
Provincial
Rob Fleming (BC NDP) — Victoria-Swan Lake
Lana Popham (BC NDP) — Saanich South
Andrew Weaver (BC Green) — Oak Bay-Gordon Head