ASSINIBOIA — Election exhaustion was the term used by those disappointed with voter turnouts in civic elections across the province. The term referred to people feeling burned out with news up to and including a provincial election Oct. 28, the U.S. election Nov. 5 and civic elections Nov. 13. Voter apathy was also touted as an attributing reason to some of the community’s lower voter turnouts.
Regardless, Facebook posts for the following communities announced their election results will include mayors and councillors who will be looking after their town’s affairs for the next four years.
Assiniboia. Assiniboia’s mayor, Sharon Schaunenberg and the current council will remain at the helm, as no election took place. Robert Ellert, Renaud Bissonnette, Renee Clermont, Patrick Grondin, Graham Harvey and Kris Olson will continue serving on town council.
Bengough. Cody Hazen was declared mayor with 144 votes. Council will include Daniel Bailey, Anthony Boucher-Dagenais, Alex Houssian, Cody McCrystal, Scott Mooney and Chris Verhaege.
Coronach. Tim Hammel - 167, Claire Manske- 155, Nathan Guskjolen - 135, Lyle Hancock - 134, Ken Martin - 121 and Ronald Mamer - 106 (all elected). It was announced in an earlier post on Oct. 11 that Calvin Martin was elected by acclamation for a four-year term as mayor.
Gravelbourg happily reported a 51 per cent voter turnout. Mathieu Forest was the successful mayoral candidate out of the three running. He is joined by successfully elected council candidates Donovan Fehr, Samuel Hawkins, Andre Larrain, Zach Ogilive, Deanna Pilgrim and Theresa Williams.
Lafleche. Declared elected are mayor Joan Corneil and councillors Kyla Masse, David Fehler, Bridget Fauser, Ryland Langman, Terry Kirkpatrick; and Brian Wegner.
Mossbank. Mayor Greg Foreman was acclaimed while final results for the election of six councillors showed Chris Costley, Kristi Green, Tom Howe, Gregg Nagel, Bonnie Olafson and Darren Wolitski elected.
Rockglen. The official results of the municipal election for this community were stated on their Facebook page as mayor Erwin Jackson along with councillors Gina Beliveau, Haley Clark, Michael Harden, Justin Quarrie, Michael Ryan and Lacey Zopf.
As of press time, there was no information secured for Limerick’s election results.
