{"id":937776,"date":"2026-10-18T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937776\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T15:52:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T15:52:24","slug":"oreilly-elected-as-mayor-of-kamloops-as-incumbent-hamer-jackson-finishes-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/937776\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Reilly elected as mayor of Kamloops as incumbent Hamer-Jackson finishes fourth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He told CFJC his first priority is to meet with the <a href=\"https:\/\/cfjctoday.com\/2026\/10\/17\/three-incumbent-kamloops-councillors-retain-seats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">remainder of the new Kamloops council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792338744_436_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan on meeting with each of the elected officials \u2013 incumbents and new \u2013 to get an idea of what they are wanting to see individually and then we\u2019ll meet as a council and get to know each other,\u201d O\u2019Reilly said on CFJC\u2018s live broadcast. <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We\u2019ll] start team building and move right into strategic planning. That\u2019s incredibly important and that will be our north star for the next four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former councillor Nelly Dever, who led the Pivot Kamloops slate, finished second with 6,969 votes, or 23.25 per cent. Fellow former councillor Ray Dhaliwal was third with 3,916 votes (13.06 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent Reid Hamer-Jackson will be a one-term mayor of Kamloops, as he finished fourth with 3,548 votes (11.83 per cent). <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see [Mike] O\u2019Reilly with such a lead I really wonder why people don\u2019t want a safer community or accountability and I think that democracy has been challenged in Kamloops,\u201d Hamer-Jackson told CFJC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think its unfortunate because right from the get-go, councillors had a council-media communication strategy and I think its worked, so I don\u2019t think the citizens get a real picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he won\u2019t be in office, Hamer-Jackson also hinted at this not being the last time that Kamloops residents hear from the outgoing mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that we got a lot of work to do in the city and I still want to work to get a safer community and accountability,\u201d Hamer-Jackson added. \u201cThe one thing I really learned is without accountability we\u2019ll never get a safer community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n              <br \/>Full interview with outgoing Kamloops mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson\n            <\/p>\n<p>Winston finished in fifth place with 1,374 votes (4.58 per cent) while Lloyd-Middleton was in sixth place with 938 votes (3.13 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>CFJC will have more on the Kamloops mayoral race on Monday, Oct. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He told CFJC his first priority is to meet with the remainder of the new Kamloops council. \u201cI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-937776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937776","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=937776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}