Coralee Oakes will be the new Mayor of Quesnel, and the second female Mayor in the City’s history.
Oakes secured the position in a landslide victory over opponents, incumbent Ron Paull and Brian Waters. Oakes received 2,137 votes, 84 per cent of the vote. Paull was next, receiving 324 votes, and Waters got 58.
The new mayor will get four re-elected councillors and two new faces.
Jeremy Drew topped the running for councillor with 1,281 votes. Next was re-elected Councillor Mitch Vik, who got 1,066; Scott Elliot was re-elected with 1,009 votes; Tony Goulet received 940 votes; Laurey-Anne Roodenburg was the last of the re-elected councillors, receiving 890 votes; and Ryan Adams fills the last seat on the Council, getting 809 votes.
Incumbent Debra McKelvie finished seventh, losing the last council seat by 56 votes, getting 750. Incumbent Martin Runge also lost out; he received the tenth-highest number of votes with 725.
The City of Quesnel had 2,539 ballots cast out of 7,806 eligible voters.
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