By TERRY PUGH
RM of Corman Park Division 8 incumbent councillor Wendy Trask was re-elected by a substantial margin in an election held Monday, November 9.
According to official voting results posted on the RM of Corman Park website November 10, Trask received 132 votes while Ashley Hubbard received 62 votes and Brent Priel received 41 votes.
Joining Trask at the table will be two new councillors.
Shaun May will represent Division 6, while Tarren Pederson was elected in Division 2.
May received 96 votes, ousting incumbent councillor Steven Balzer, who got 14 votes.
Pederson won a three-way race to claim the Division 2 councillor seat. She received 218 votes, while Michelle Chuhaniuk received 159 votes and Kyle Jantzen got 24 votes.
Division 4 Councillor David Greenwood was acclaimed.
The RM of Corman Park was one of 296 rural municipalities across the province that held elections November 9 for even-numbered divisions. The RM of Duck Lake saw one election in Division 6, and it was a nail-biter. Orville Sinclair was elected. He received 43 votes, while incumbent Gordon King received 42 votes. Tyler Smith was acclaimed in Division 2 and Reg Nicolas was acclaimed in Division 4.
In the RM of Aberdeen, Robert Farkas will be the new representative for Division 2. He received 73 votes, defeating incumbent Mark Schaffel, who got 34 votes. Real Hamoline in Division 4 and Jim Korpan in Division 6 were acclaimed.
The RM of Rosthern had two elections. Andrew Robin was elected in Division 6. He received 37 votes while David Neufeldt received 19. In Division 5, Ken Guedo was elected with six votes while Patrick Hylkema received three votes. Larry Fehr was acclaimed in Division 2 and Leo Perrin was acclaimed in Division 4.
In the RM of Montrose, Robert Haugen was elected in Division 2. The other candidate was Bryan Rogers. There were two acclamations: Bernard Howe in Division 4 and Adam Tweedie in Division 6.
Several RMs saw all candidates elected by acclamation. These include:
* the RM of Vanscoy, where Jeff Colborn will represent Division 2, John Arnold is the councillor for Division 4, and Dean Gregory for Division 6.
* the RM of Blucher, where Quintin Senger was acclaimed in Division 2, Dale Chysyk in Division 4 and Francis Boehm in Division 6.
* the RM of Laird, where acclamations include Phil Loewen in Division 2, Ken Fehr in Division 4 and Salton Williams in Division 6.