Election 2021: Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo results

The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo has a new mayor after mayor-elect Sandy Bowman was elected Monday night.

RMWB has one mayor and 10 councillors — six in Ward 1, two in Ward 2 and one each in Ward 3 and Ward 4.

Funky Banjoko, Lance Bussieres, M. Shafiq Dogar, Keith McGrath, Ball Ken and Allan Grandison were elected as councillors in Ward 1.

Kendrick Cardinal and Loretta Eva Waquan were elected in Ward 2.

Stu Wigle won in Ward 3 while Jane Stroud in Ward 4 was acclaimed before election day and will return to council.

Current Mayor Dan Scott did not run for re-election, while current councillors Mike Allen and Verna Murphy ran for the top job.

Councillors seeking re-election were: McGrath and Jeffrey Peddle in Ward 1, Claris Voyageur in Ward 2 and Sheila Lalonde in Ward 3.

Councillors Krista Balsom, Phil Meagher, Verna Murphy and Bruce Inglis did not seek re-election.

A full list of mayoral and council candidates is below.

Mike Allen
Sandy Bowman
Verna Murphy

Ken Ball
Funky Banjoko
Dale Leo Bendfeld
Lance Bussieres
M. Shafiq Dogar
Allan Grandison
Garth Hewitt
Johnathan Gregory Higdon
Jason King
Michelle Landsiedel
Keith McGrath (Incumbent)
Alex McKenzie
Joseph Mugodo
Gareth Norris
Matty Parlee
Jeffrey Peddle (Incumbent)
Mike Powlesland
Zaid Sulaiman
Tal Tupper
IJ Uche-Ezeala
Jennifer (Vandervoot) Vardy
Rene Wells
Charles Wilson
Scott Wilson

Kendrick Cardinal
Claris Voyageur (Incumbent)
Loretta Eva Waquan

Sheila Lalonde (Incumbent)
Stu Wigle

Jane Stroud (Acclaimed)