Off to the races: Candidates confirmed for 2022 P.E.I. municipal elections
CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — With the nomination deadline come and gone, there are formally three candidates vying for the highest elected job in Charlottetown.
Oct. 21 was nomination day in P.E.I. for the province’s municipal elections, which meant that every one nomination papers needed to be filed to the returning officer by 2 p.m.
Municipal elections will likely be held Nov. 7.
Following the deadline, incumbent Mayor Philip Brown, former metropolis councillor Cecil Villard and Daniel Mullen had submitted their papers to run in Charlottetown.
Brown will likely be in search of his second time period as mayor after being elected to the job in 2018, succeeding Clifford Lee, who didn’t re-offer.
Brown has instructed SaltWire Community on a number of events that, if profitable, this will likely be his remaining four-year time period as mayor. Brown has stated up to now that he helps two-term mayoral runs.
It’s going to even be the fourth time Brown has run for mayor.
He misplaced to Lee twice, in 2010 and 2014, earlier than successful the 2018 election.
Brown additionally served two phrases on metropolis council, successful in 2000 and 2003, when council phrases have been three years.
Villard, a former senior government within the P.E.I. health-care area, served on council between 2003 and 2014.
Mullen, who’s president of Island Telecom, which builds underground fibre optic networks, has by no means served on council and that is his first mayoral run.
Charlottetown will see one council seat crammed by acclamation with Coun. Terry Bernard as the one candidate confirmed for Ward 10.
Each different ward has a minimum of two candidates operating.
Summerside
It’s a a lot totally different story in Summerside the place 5 present metropolis councillors have been acclaimed, leaving solely three wards to go to the polls on Nov. 7
The councillors who’ve received by default in Summerside are in Ward 1 (Bruce MacDougall), Ward 2 (Justin Doiron), Ward 3 (Barb Ramsay), Ward 4 (Cory Snow) and Ward 8 (Carrie Adams).
The three candidates for mayor are incumbent Basil Stewart, Dan Kutcher and James Ford.
Stewart has been the town’s mayor since 1985, aside from a four-year time period between 2014 and 2018 when he misplaced to Invoice Martin.
Kutcher, a first-time candidate, is an area businessman and group volunteer
Ford, one other first-time candidate, is a house renovator, carpenter and jack-of-all trades.
In Stratford, incumbent Mayor Steve Ogden will face Gail MacDonald within the city’s mayoral race.
Who’s operating
A full checklist of candidates and particulars on the best way to vote within the Nov. 7 municipal elections can be found on Elections P.E.I. website.
Ogden is in search of a second time period as mayor and beforehand served as a Stratford city councillor for 2 phrases following 9 years on the Keppoch-Kinlock Group Council.
MacDonald served on Stratford’s city council for eight years.
Cornwall Mayor Minerva McCourt is uncontested and can return to the job by acclamation.
It is going to be McCourt’s third time period as mayor and she or he beforehand served as a councillor for eight years.
In the meantime, in Three Rivers there’s a two-person mayoral race with no incumbent after Mayor Ed MacAulay introduced he was not in search of re-election.
Coun. Debbie Johnston and businessman Ray Forehead are the 2 candidates operating to interchange MacAulay.
