The 2021

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was held Monday, October 18, 2021, to elect a

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and eight

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s (

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), the seven Lethbridge School Division

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s, and five of the Holy Spirit Catholic School Division’s nine trustees (as Ward 2). Incumbent mayor

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, announced in January 2021 that he would not seek re-election. He served 2 terms as mayor—being first elected in

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—after having sat for several years on the Holy Spirit school board. Of the 8 incumbent councillors, Rob Miyashiro, Joe Mauro, and Jeff Coffman declined to run for re-election. Four incumbent councillors, Mark Campbell, Jeff Carlson, Belinda Crowson, and Ryan Parker stated they would run again, and another incumbent, Blaine Hyggen, announced he would try for the mayoral vacancy left by Spearman's departure. During the 2017 municipal election, 21,357 of the 78,772 eligible voters turned in a ballot, a voter turnout of 27%.

Results

Bold indicates elected, and incumbents are marked with an (X). 81,276 eligible voters 28,348 voted Voter turn-out: 34.88 percent

Mayor

Candidates

Declared

* Sheldon Joseph Day Chief, former leader at Blood Tribe *Blaine Hyggen, incumbent councillor *Gary Klassen, real estate agent * *Bridget Mearns, former councillor and mayoral candidate *Kolton Menzak, MMA fighter *Stephen Mogdan, lawyer

Councillors

Candidates

''Top eight candidates are elected at large''

Declared

* Kelti Baird, business owner *Marissa Black, tax professional *Mark Campbell, incumbent *Jeff Carlson, incumbent *Ben Christensen, business owner *Rufa Doria, immigration consultant *Bill Ginther, Soup Kitchen executive director *Dale Leier, retired *Darcy Logan, not-for-profit administrator *Shelby MacLeod, *Bernard Mbonihankuye *John Middleton-Hope, former police chief *Nick Paladino, municipal development consultant *Ryan Parker, incumbent *Jenn Prosser, not-for-profit administrator *Chris Rowley, community activist *Kyle Sargeant, business owner *Jenn Schmidt-Rempel, business owner *Suketu Shah, financial advisor *Tim Vanderbeek, *Bradley Whalen, business owner *Davey Wiggers *Ryan Wolfe, mortgage professional *Boyd Thomas, not-for-profit director

Plebiscite

Lethbridge's 2021 municipal election will include two

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questions – one on establishing a ward system and one to construct a third river crossing over the

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Results

Mayor

Candidates

Declared

Councillors

Candidates

Declared

Plebiscite

References

See also