Drawing of lots results in new mayor for Village of Lytton<\/p>\n
Published 4:01 pm Tuesday, October 27, 2026<\/p>\n
The Village of Lytton has a new mayor, after a judicial recount confirmed a tied vote for that position and the decision came down to the drawing of lots.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Thoss has been confirmed as the incoming mayor, after the recount and draw on Tuesday (Oct. 27). She and incumbent mayor Denise O\u2019Connor each received 45 votes in the municipal election held on Oct. 17, and a recount produced the same outcome.<\/p>\n
According to CivicInfoBC, there were an estimated 198 eligible voters in Lytton in this election.<\/p>\n
\u201cTies are very rare, and only happen once in a blue moon,\u201d said Shannon Story, chief election officer for the Village of Lytton. \u201cBut obviously when you\u2019re dealing with a smaller municipality with smaller numbers, a tie is statistically more possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
As per the Village of Lytton\u2019s election procedure bylaw, and in accordance with the Local Government Act, the tie was referred to a judicial recount in Kamloops. When that recount confirmed the tie, the names of the two candidates were placed in a container, and one was drawn.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Connor was first elected mayor of the community in 2022, the same year that Thoss was elected for her first term as a councillor there.<\/p>\n
Black Press has reached out to both candidates for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drawing of lots results in new mayor for Village of Lytton Published 4:01 pm Tuesday, October 27, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[903,49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-949023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949023","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=949023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}