Preliminary General Election Results In

Election results are in from Saturday's general election.

Election results are in from Saturday's general election.

Campbell River has a new mayor in Kermit Dahl, elected to replace outgoing mayor Andy Adams, who did not run for re-election.

Your new councillors-elect in Campbell River are: Susan Sinnott, Ben Lanyon, Sean Smyth, Ron Kerr, Doug Chapman, and Tanille Johnston, who becomes the first Indigenous person to sit around the Campbell River Council table.

A total of 10,359 ballots were cast, and voter turnout was approximately 35 percent - ten percent better than voter turnout in 2018.

Following a final review of the ballot counts, the city clerk will declare official election results before 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, from City Hall Council Chambers.

Elsewhere, in Courtenay, Bob Wells was re-elected the Mayor, while Ron Woznow took the seat in Powell River.

Vickey Brown won the mayoralty race by about 200 votes in Cumberland.

In Comox, Nicole Minions won the Mayor's chair by acclamation, running unopposed.

In addition to area mayors and councillors, residents also voted in school board trustees for School District 72.

Seven school trustees are elected by the public to represent Greater Campbell River, the Discovery Islands and Sayward on the Board of Education.

John Kerr, Kat Eddy, Shannon Briggs, Richard Franklin, Daryl Hagen, Joyce McMann and Susan Wilson were all elected to the board.

Shannon Briggs and Jan Gladish were both acclaimed.