{"id":87582,"date":"2026-10-27T08:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=87582"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:02:55","slug":"election-results-wawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/election-results-wawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Results &#8211; Wawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mayor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Melanie Pilon &#8211; 672 (54.6%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ray Vaillant &#8211; 547 (44.4%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Councillors<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>James Stewart &#8211;\u00a0 819 (66.5%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Brandon Smit &#8211; 761 (61.8%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Colton Liddle &#8211;\u00a0 743 (60.4%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason North &#8211;\u00a0 550 (44.7%)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shah Mohamed &#8211; 544 (44.2%)<\/li>\n<li>Cathy Cannon (I) &#8211; 430 (34.9%)<\/li>\n<li>Mitch Hatfield (I) &#8211; 340 (27.6%)<\/li>\n<li>Eric Paquette &#8211; 254 (20.6%)<\/li>\n<li>Ron Ouellette &#8211; 136 (11.0%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There were 10 spoiled ballots, and 2 declined ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Voter turnout for 2026 was 53.87% with 1,231 of 2285 voters participating. This is an increase over the voter turnout for 2022 which was 37.40% with 773 of 2067 voters participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor: Melanie Pilon &#8211; 672 (54.6%) Ray Vaillant &#8211; 547 (44.4%) Councillors James Stewart &#8211;\u00a0 819 (66.5%) Brandon Smit &#8211; 761 (61.8%) Colton Liddle &#8211;\u00a0 743 (60.4%) Jason North &#8211;\u00a0 550 (44.7%) Shah Mohamed &#8211; 544 (44.2%) Cathy Cannon (I) &#8211; 430 (34.9%) Mitch Hatfield (I) &#8211; 340 (27.6%) Eric Paquette &#8211; 254 (20.6%) Ron &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87583,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87582\/revisions\/87583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}