Saskatoon votes: Who's running in the civic election?
Saskatoon's civic election is inching closer, as candidates are now finalized ahead of voting day on Nov. 13.
The nomination period ended Wednesday, but councillors had until Thursday afternoon to drop out of the race.
Returning officer Shellie Bryant says now that nominations have closed, the hard work continues with mail-in ballot applications due by Oct. 15 and advanced polls beginning across the city on Nov. 1.
"Now is what we call crunch time. We’re, I think, 33, 34 days away from the actual election. We've got advance polls coming up on November 1st … we're in the process of training all the workers right now this week, next week and the week after," she said. "So yeah, it's go time."
Saskatoon is set for plenty of change for the 2024 election. This is the first election since 1988 with an open seat for mayor, after Charlie Clark followed Cliff Wright in not seeking re-election while in office, and there will be at least four new faces on council, with many councillors deciding not to run again.
Hilary Gough, David Kirton, Mairin Loewen and Sarina Gersher all decided not to seek re-election, and Cynthia Block has left Ward 6 an open race as she vies for the mayor's chair.
In the midst of this dramatic turnover, Councillors Bev Dubois and Zach Jeffries will be back on council after running unopposed this time around.
There are five candidates campaigning for mayor and an additional 40 candidates running for various wards. Ward 8 leads the way with eight candidates in the race for that seat.
Including public and separate school board trustees, Bryant says there were just over 60 candidates in 2020. This year, that number has jumped to 93.
"It's a lot of candidates," Bryant said. "So it's a good selection for people to choose."
As Bryant and her staff test equipment and ramp up efforts, the next milestone for voters is the advance polls, which run from Nov. 1 to Nov. 4, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., with one location in each ward across the city. Voting day is on Nov. 13.
Here are all the candidates running in the 2024 civic election as of Thursday afternoon:
Mayor:
Don Atchison
Cynthia Block
Mike Harder
Cary Tarasoff
Gordon Wyant
City Councillor – Ward 1:
Kevin Boychuk
Dallas Burnett
Darren Hill
Kathryn MacDonald
Russel Nadin
City Councillor – Ward 2:
Franklin Arthurs
Jean Beliveau
Janna Horn
Fraser Kent
Karen Kobussen
Senos Timon
City Councillor – Ward 3:
Devyn Gregoire
Robert Pearce
Mike San Miguel
City Councillor – Ward 4:
Troy Davies
Courtney Saliken
Numaan Shafqat
City Councillor – Ward 5:
Randy Donauer
Kyla Kitzul
Tyler Knihnitski
Nick Prytula
David Prokopchuk
City Councillor – Ward 6:
Terry Alm
Tony Bassett
Terry Hoknes
Jasmin Parker
Jonathan Naylor
City Councillor – Ward 7:
Edward Agbai
Holly Kelleher
Jamie Kirkpatrick
Justin Wiens
City Councillor – Ward 8:
Darren Abrey
Henry Tsz Lok Chan
Scott Ford
Prathamesh Kale
Ron Mantyka
Malvina Rapko
Peggy Schmeiser
Kevin Zarycki
City Councillor – Ward 9:
Bev Dubois
City Councillor – Ward 10:
Zach Jeffries
Trustee – Separate School:
J.R. (Ron) Boechler
Diane Boyko
Hudson Byblow
Erik Carey
Dana A. Case
Michelle Christopher
Tanya Clarke
Kate Day (nee McGettigan)
Brett Florizone
Jacqueline Gress
Kim Hoffart
Tim Jelinski
Chelsea Jukes
Shane Keating
Richard Kolla
Erin Lockert
Myron Luczka
Annette Mireau
Sandra Molyneux
Eric Olauson
Mike St. Amand
Sharon Zakreski-Werbicki
Owen Fortosky
Trustee – Public School – Ward 1:
Jennifer Barrett
Tanya Napper
Zach Nelson
Palash Sanyal
Trustee – Public School – Ward 2:
Vernon J. Linklater
Trustee – Public School – Ward 3:
Donna Banks
Trustee – Public School – Ward 4:
Kim Stranden
Trustee – Public School – Ward 5:
Debbie Miket
Darcy Overland
Jennifer Scherman
Mitchell Sepke
Trustee – Public School – Ward 6:
Kirk Jones
Gretchen Peterson
Doug Porteous
Kath Stevenson
Lia Storey-Gamble
Trustee – Public School – Ward 7:
Ross Tait
Trustee – Public School – Ward 8:
Connie Kocsis
Lindsay Olver
Anne-Marie Rollo
Trustee – Public School – Ward 9:
Robin Bellamy
Kevin Schmidt
Nadine Zettl
Trustee – Public School – Ward 10:
Angela Arneson
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