N.W.T. municipal election results are in: Fred Daniels will be mayor of Fort Smith
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Residents in five N.W.T. communities went to the polls Monday to vote in municipal elections.
There are newly elected councillors in Inuvik, Fort Simpson, Fort Smith, Hay River and Norman Wells. Fort Smith, the only community that had a mayoral race, has a new mayor. In the four other communities, the mayoral candidates ran uncontested, and were already acclaimed.
Communities also elected members for their local District Education Authority (DEA).
In Fort Smith, Fred Daniels just barely came out on top to become the community's next mayor with 450 votes cast in his name, according to the results posted on the community's Facebook page. His opponent, Jessica Cox, had 426 votes.
The elected councillors are:
Not elected: Athena Sharp (377 votes), Kevin Smith (364 votes), Mike Couvrette (336 votes), Don Jaque (333 votes), Al Karasiuk (328 votes), Lynn Napier (262 votes).
Fort Smith also voted in three DEA members. The tentative results show Laura Aubrey, Hilary Turko, and Roger Vail joining the board.
Sean Whelly will serve another term as mayor in Fort Simpson, where on Monday, there was a 28 per cent voter turn out, according to the results posted to the village's Facebook page.
The elected councillors are:
Not elected are: Celine Antoine (80 votes), Walter Blondin (52 votes), Charles Blyth (87 votes), John Dempsey (101 votes), Kirby Groat (79 votes), Chris Snider (55 votes) and Randal Sibbeston (56 votes).
In Hay River, Kandis Jameson will be mayor again after she was already acclaimed to the role.
The elected councillors are:
Not elected are: Kim Brockway (324 votes) and Keanan Kipling (291 votes).
Clarence Wood, a current councillor, was already acclaimed as the mayor in Inuvik, after Natasha Kulikowski, the outgoing mayor, decided to run for council instead.
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