Deep River Councillors Will Fitton, Christina Giardini and Tom Vaughan will join Mayor Sue D’Eon for another four years at the council table after they won re-election Monday night.
Fitton (878 votes), Giardini (811) and Vaughan (791) topped the polls and will be joined by new councillors Benjamin Myers (721) and Jay Crawford (620).
In the townships of Head, Clara, Maria meanwhile, Councillor Karen Leclerc won a clear victory in the race for mayor, almost doubling the vote for Councillor Rachel Richer, 235-118.
Most of the Deep River candidates gathered at town hall Monday night waiting for the results to come in shortly after 8 pm.
Overall, 1,135 voters cast their electronic ballots out of a potential 2,634 electors, for a voter turnout of 43.1 per cent.
Eleven people declined their ballot, leaving a total of 1,124 casting their votes for the seven council candidates.
Mayor D’Eon, who was acclaimed to another term of office along with Reeve Glenn Doncaster, said she was pleased that there was a “fairly good turnout of voting.”
“And I’m pleased we had a good field of candidates,” she added.
“I appreciate everybody putting their names in. It takes people to be involved in order to run a community, and it takes a lot of guts and faith to put your name in (for council), and I really appreciate everybody who did that”…
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