The results are in, and there will be three new directors in the Cariboo Regional District.
Robert Mertz will be the new Electoral Area B, Quesnel and Bouchie Lake Director, beating incumbent Barb Bachmeier by only four votes. Mertz received 203 votes; Bachmeier received 199. Heloise Dixon-Warren was third with 195. A race that was decided by eight votes between the three candidates.
In Electoral Area C, Bowron Lake – Barlow Creek – Barkerville, Clint Cave upset John Massier. Cave defeated Massier by receiving 94 votes; Massier received 80 votes. Massier had been Area C Director since 2008.
Dan Parker is the last of the new Electoral Area Directors to be elected. He won Electoral Area L, Lone Butte – Interlakes, with 286 votes. Defeating incumbent Eric De Vries, who received 240.
Betty Anderson in Area K, East Chilcotin; Melynda Neufeld for Area E, South Lakeside – Dog Creek; Al Richmond in Area G, Lac La Hache – 108 Mile Ranch; and Margo Wagner for Area H, Canim Lake – Fores Grove were all re-elected.
Wagner received 80 per cent of the votes, with 229. Anderson got 75 per cent with 39 votes. Richmond was re-elected with 69 per cent, 641, of the votes going in his favour. Neufeld got 180 votes, with a 52 per cent favourable swing.
The regional district had a total of 3,281 ballots cast during the election.
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