PHOTOS | Meet Iqaluit's new mayor and council
Redfern was previously mayor of Iqaluit from 2010 to 2012
Madeleine Redfern has been elected mayor of Iqaluit in Monday's municipal vote. She won decisively, earning 1,005 votes, or 59 per cent of all ballots.
Redfern ran against Mary Wilman, who has served as mayor since 2014, and Noah Papatsie, a city councillor since 2013. Wilman won 527 votes, or 31 per cent of all ballots. Papatsie won 160 votes, or about 9 per cent.
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This will be a return to the mayor's office for Redfern. She was first elected to the office in a byelection in 2010, but decided not to stand for re-election in the 2012 city election.
Redfern decided to run again this year because of the state of the city and what she called a "lack of professionalism," she said in a CBC profile of all three candidates for mayor.
Eight people have been elected to council. They are:
- Gideonie Joamie
- Joanasie Akumalik
- Simon Nattaq
- Megan Pizzo Lyall
- Jason Rochon
- Romeyn Stevenson
- Kuthula Matshazi
- Terry Dobbin
Lynda Gunn also ran for a seat on council, but was 18 votes behind the eighth place candidate, Simon Nattaq.
Eight people ran for six seats on the Iqaluit District Education Authority. Six were elected:
- Lana Dawiskiba
- Sherene Gissing
- Pascal MacLellan
- Alden Williams
- Andrea Witzaney-Chown
- Douglas Workman
Bryan Drachenberg and Randy Pittman also ran.
Four candidates were acclaimed to the seven open seats on the Apex District Education Authority. They are:
- Anne Crawford
- Kerry McCluskey
- Joseph Murdoch-Flowers
- Corenna Nuyalia
Two candidates were acclaimed to the three open seats on the Commission scolaire francophone du Nunavut. They are:
- Myriam Girard
- Daniel Hilman