The unofficial results of the 2022 local elections are out. Armand Hurford has won the mayor’s seat, polling 4,436 votes. Mike Young polled 1,184 votes while Deanna Lewis got 1,044 votes.
Below are the winning councilors and their voting tally.
Jenna Stoner: 4,094
Eric Andersen: 3,642
Lauren Greenlaw: 3,567
Chris Pettingill: 3,316
John French: 3,053
Andrew Hamilton: 3,071
Christina Walsh, Rajan Hans, Adriene Briene, and Gord Addison were defeated. The final determination of election results will be released on Wednesday, October 19.
The official tally and the results can also be viewed on the District of Squamish website.
Let this be a lesson to any developer that wants to buy a Squamish election.
Sincerely happy our community’s collective intelligence prevailed over the sad and slanderous bombastic rhetoric we all witnessed. Mayor and council, congratulations. You have a lot of work to do. Show us what you can do.
A great disappointment we didn’t get Mike Young as mayor to really change up Squamish for the better, for everyone, and now we are stuck with “same old, same old”…. Still paying $$$ for renting city hall instead of the people owning it, still terrible lack of parking downtown, still a rec centre that is just that …a “ wreck”! And still permitting badly built condo after condo … if the new mayor does nothing to improve Squamish, those who voted for him don’t complain, you had a choice!
The residents have spoken and they clearly don’t want much of a change, so the downfall of Squamish continues. Deanna Lewis would have been great, but the demographic has changed so much, I can’t say I am surprised.