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Yvonne Hamlin declared mayor for Collingwood

Results are in for the 2022 Collingwood municipal election
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Yvonne Hamlin held a campaign party at 1858 Caesar Bar in Collingwood on Oct. 24, 2022.

Collingwood's unofficial municipal election results show Yvonne Hamlin will be the next mayor. 

Hamlin beat out Norm Sandberg and Mariane McLeod for the lead chair on council. Hamlin is fresh off her first term on council, having been elected as a councillor in 2018. 

Hamlin received 3,469 of the 8,692 votes cast for mayor (39.9 per cent), Sandberg received 2,635 (30%), and McLeod received 2,588 (29.7%). 

Tim Fryer won the deputy mayor seat. Fryer received 5,804 votes of the 8,270 cast for deputy mayor (70%). Bob Madigan received 1,688 votes, and Jordan Fleming received 778, though she announced at the start of the campaign she was withdrawing from the race. 

The seven councillors-elect include Kathy Jeffery (5,615 votes) Deb Doherty (5,350 votes), Brandon Houston (4,822 votes), Chris Potts (4,267 votes), Rob Ring (4,032 votes), Christopher Baines (3,854 votes) and Steve Perry (3,351). 

The remaining five councillors not elected to a council seat, in order of most votes to least include Ian Chadwick, Steve Johns, Steve Berman, Cam Ecclestone, and George Dickenson. 

Results are unofficial until certified by the clerk.