Here are the winners of the City of Kamloops election, held Oct. 15, 2022, and their pre-election interview with Radio NL.

There were five candidates looking to replace the retiring Ken Christian as mayor of Kamloops, with 23 people eyeing one of eight councillor seats. There were also ten people in the running for the five Kamloops seats around the SD73 table.

A total of 23,218 ballots were cast, out of 80,025 eligible voters, for a 29.1 per cent voter turnout, a full percentage-point below the 30.1 per cent voter turnout in 2018.

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(The * denotes an incumbent candidate)

Mayor

Reid Hamer-Jackson – 7,298 votes (31.61 per cent)

Councillors

Katie Neustaeter – 11,583 votes (8.6 per cent)

*Bill Sarai – 10,737 votes (7.9 per cent)

*Mike O’Reilly – 10,626 votes (7.89 per cent)

Kelly Hall – 9,544 votes (7.09 per cent)

Margot Middleton – 8,560 votes (6.36 per cent)

*Dale Bass – 8,245 votes (6.12 per cent)

Stephen Karpuk – 8,122 votes (6.03 per cent)

Nancy Bepple – 7,745 votes (5.75 per cent)

Kamloops-Thompson School District 

*John O’Fee – 11,580 votes (16.53 per cent)

*Kathleen Karpuk – 10,812 votes (15.44 per cent)

*Heather Grieve – 9,821 votes (14.02 per cent)

Cole Hickson – 8,980 votes (12.82 per cent)

Jo Kang – 6,675 votes (9.53 per cent)

Thompson-Nicola Regional District

Usoff Tsao – Area A (Wells Gray Country)

Jim Smith – Area E (Bonaparte Plateau)

Tricia Thorpe – Area I (Blue Sky Country)

Michael Grenier – Area J (Copper Desert Country)

Doug Haughton – Area L (Grasslands)

Lee Morris – Area P (Rivers and the Peaks)

Four other people – incumbents David Laird and Herb Graham, and newcomers Lee Onslow and Jill Hayward – were acclaimed to the TNRD board.