Residents of Lytton have voted for a new mayor and council in the 2022 B.C. municipal election – the second vote for the community since last year’s devastating wildfire.
Global News projects Denise D O’Connor will be stepping in the mayor’s position for the next four years.
Joining her to make up the council, Global News projects that Jennifer A Thoss, Jessoa Lightfoot, Nonie McCann and Melissa K Michell will take those seats.
Current Mayor Jan Polderman will not seek re-election after being acclaimed to the top seat in 2018.
Following the summer 2021 wildfire that all but destroyed the Village of Lytton, two of the community’s four councillors resigned before the end of the year. Melissa Michell and Ross Urquhart were elected in an April 2022 byelection, however, Michell will be the sole incumbent running this October with four other candidates.
Since many Village of Lytton residents have been displaced due to the wildfire, special circumstances have been created to consider who are residents and eligible voters. The information can be found on the Village of Lytton website.
Candidates
Mayor
Edith M Loring-Kuhanga
Willie Nelson (William Izak Ocelot Morris-Nelson)
Denise D O’Connor
Council
Jessoa Lightfoot
Nonie McCann (Winona McCann)
Melissa K Michell (Incumbent)
Ken D Pite (Kenneth Donaldson Pite)
Jennifer A Thoss
Population of municipality
210 (2021)
Boundary of the municipality
Lytton is a village in the Fraser Canyon, located along the Fraser River and the Lytton-Lillooet Highway in B.C.’s Interior. It can be found 84 kilometres south of Cache Creek.
This profile will continually be updated to reflect the latest information, interviews and events in the campaign.
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