Princeton council seat determined by a draw<\/p>\n
Published 3:58 pm Tuesday, October 27, 2026<\/p>\n
It came down to a draw, more than a week after the local government election, to determine the final seat in the Princeton town council election.<\/p>\n
The election was held on Oct. 17, but the vote resulted in a tie for the fourth of four councillor seats.<\/p>\n
On Oct. 26, Carrie Kassa, chief election officer for Princeton, declared Tyler Willis elected as councillor following a judicial recount lot draw.<\/p>\n
In the election, held on Oct. 14, Willis and Paula Shackleton were tied for the fourth spot on council, with each receiving 391 votes.<\/p>\n
Because of the tie, the decision was referred to a judicial recount. This involved recounting the ballots for the two councillors once more. Then, since the vote was still a tie, the winner was determined by a lot draw.<\/p>\n
This will be third term on council for Willis. He was elected in 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n
The others on the Princeton town council are Spencer Coyne as mayor and Barb Gould, Doug Pateman and George Elliott as councillors.<\/p>\n
Coyne, Gould and Elliott were all members of the past council, while Pateman was a councillor from 2014 to 2018.<\/p>\n
In the Princeton election, 1,053 ballots were cast. There were an estimated 2,571 eligible voters.<\/p>\n
There were nine candidates for town council.<\/p>\n
Gould finished 690 votes, followed by Pateman with 575 votes and Elliott with 501 votes.<\/p>\n
The remaining candidates were Amanda Werry with 375 votes, incumbent Randy McLean with 336 votes, Dayton Wales with 325 votes and Chris Obey with 290 votes.<\/p>\n
In past years, Princeton has had other close elections.<\/p>\n
In 2008, Marilyn Harkness took the fourth seat on the council with 385 votes, just two more than fifth-place candidate Dina Slowikowski-Campbell.<\/p>\n
In 2011, Kim Maynard took the fourth spot with 465 votes, just 20 more than fifth-place candidate Ray Jarvis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Princeton council seat determined by a draw Published 3:58 pm Tuesday, October 27, 2026 By John Arendt\/Summerland Review…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-948918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948918","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=948918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}