After months of campaigning, a snowstorm that delayed election day and long lines that caused further delays on Friday, the civic election is over and Saskatoon has it’s civic government for the next 4 years.

Charlie Clark will serve a 2nd term as mayor, after he received 27,377 of a total of 58,370 votes for mayor, or 47% of the vote. He says he is excited to see the dynamic of the new council but work on the next 4 years will begin by setting a budget. Clark suggests there is big work to do during a time that will be effected by COVID-19, and the council will need a really stable and clear financial plan for the budget.

More stats from the election show across all ten wards there were a total of 53,501 votes. The closest race ended up being in ward 1 where Darren Hill narrowly defeated Kevin Boychuk by just 56 votes.
Ward 5 saw the most votes with 7516 total. Randy Donauer was re-elected there with the highest vote total among councillors with 5402. The lowest number of votes was in Ward 3, with 3786, where new-comer David Kirton was elected with 1103.

The first meeting of council will be held virtually on Monday at 6 p.m.

Unofficial results from city of Saskatoon:
Total Votes: For Mayor 58,370
Charlie Clark – 27,377
Rob Norris – 15261
Don Atchison – 11722
Cary Tarasoff- 2650
Zubair Sheikh – 721
Mark Zielke – 639

Total votes across all the wards 53501:

Ward 1 (Total votes 4749) – Darren Hil won with 1639
Ward 2 (Total votes 3899) Hillary Gough won with 2599
Ward 3 (Total votes 3786) David Kirton won with 1103
Ward 4 (Acclaimed Troy Davies)
Ward 5 (Total votes 7516) Randy Donauer won with 5402
Ward 6 (Total votes 7947) Cynthia Block won with 5004
Ward 7 – (Total votes 7040) – Mairin Loewen won with 3356
Ward 8 – (Total votes 6566) – Sarina Gersher won with 3307
Ward 9 – (Total votes 5867) – Bev Dubois won with 3637
Ward 10 (Total votes 6131) – Zach Jeffries won with 4398