Voters across the Peace Country are making their voices heard as polls for the 2025 Municipal Election have officially closed and ballot counting has begun.
Due to the changes to the Municipal Elections Act, votes will be counted by hand rather than by electronic tabulators. The change may impact the speed in which results will become available.
The City of Grande Prairie expects to have results as early as October 21st. In a social media post Monday, officials said “As all ballots are hand counted this year, we are unable to provide a specific time, but we anticipate they will be ready on October 21.
The message continued, “The extended timeline reflects our responsibility to protect the integrity, security, and accuracy of the vote. To expedite the results we will have separate announcements declaring the unofficial results for Mayor first, followed by Council.”
Meanwhile the County of Grande says unofficial results will be posted online following the completion of counting votes on Monday. However, no specific timeline was offered.
We will have full, detailed results of ridings across the Grande Prairie region as they become available.
The Municipal District of Greenview have announced the unofficial results for each Ward as of 10:00 p.m.
Ward-1 Winston Delorme (acclaimed.)
Ward-2 Ryan Ratzlaff (97 votes.)
Ward-3 Darren Soderquist (125 votes.)
Ward-4 Dave Berry (acclaimed.)
Ward-5 James Vander Leest (65 votes.)
Ward-6 Tom Burton (acclaimed.)
Ward-7 Chad Taylor (86 votes.)
Ward-8 Nicholas Hansen (158 votes) & Christine Schlief (155 votes.)
Ward-9 Marko Hackenberg (475 votes) & Paul Bailey (332 votes.)
