Kurtis Coombs, by the numbers

Age of Kurtis Coombs, the youngest mayor in Canada: 19

Votes by which Coombs led at one point on election night: 51

Final number of votes cast for Coombs: 1821

Final number of votes cast for incumbent Ralph Wiseman: 1818

Votes by which Coombs defeated Wiseman: 3

Vote deferential needed to prompt a recount: 10

Hours after polls closed that election results were announced: 3

Years in which Wiseman served as mayor before election: 4

Challenging years ahead for Paradise residents, according to Wiseman: 4

Distance from Paradise to St. John’s, Nfld.: 15 kilometers

Paradise population today: 14,000

Paradise population in 2006, according to Stats Canada: 12,640

Percentage growth in population from 2001 to 2006, according to Stats Canada: 36.4

Percentage decline in population in Newfoundland as a whole between 2001 and 2006, according to Stats Canada: 1.5