{"id":937384,"date":"2026-10-18T07:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937384\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T07:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T07:54:19","slug":"live-nanaimo-council-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937384\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE \u2013 Nanaimo council election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              LIVE \u2013 Nanaimo council election<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 8:32 pm Saturday, October 17, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the Nanaimo News Bulletin live results for the Nanaimo municipal election. All updates will be posted here as they appear.<\/p>\n<p>Final preliminary count for mayor and council\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>;<\/p>\n<p>The Regional District of Nanaimo put out a release stating that preliminary results show Lauren Melanson won Area C, Joe Ringwald won Area E, and Chris Burger won Area F.<\/p>\n<p>First mayoral results are coming in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>First results are coming in\u2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">First #Nanaimo results for 2026 municipal posted. https:\/\/t.co\/rK8vaRCFhv<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl Yu (@KarlYuBulletin) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KarlYuBulletin\/status\/2111664485383672058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New advance voting record\u2026<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sheila Gurrie, @cityofnanaimo chief election officer, says advance voting \ud83c\udd99 60%. Over 7k voters. 4k in 2022. Gurrie believes it breaks records.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karl Yu (@KarlYuBulletin) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KarlYuBulletin\/status\/2111660101543334141?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Candidates have began to arrive\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVE \u2013 Nanaimo council election Published 8:32 pm Saturday, October 17, 2026 Welcome to the Nanaimo News Bulletin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-937384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}