Emma Durand-Wood wins Elmwood-East Kildonan council seat
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Winnipeg has a new city councillor: Emma Durand-Wood won the Elmwood-East Kildonan byelection Saturday night.
Durand-Wood won with 1,567 votes (31.5 per cent) over second-place finisher Abel Gutierrez, who had 887 votes (17.8 per cent).
After volunteering with the Glenelm Neighbourhood Association, Chalmers Neighbourhood Renewal Corp., Elmwood Business Coalition and the Trees Please Winnipeg Coalition, Durand-Wood decided to enter her first political race.
“I’ve tried to always get involved and do what I can… Folks are asking me if I would serve in this new way (running for city council), so I’m going to give it a try,” Durand-Wood said when she announced her candidacy in July.
Durand-Wood, 44, has lived in Elmwood-East Kildonan since she moved to Winnipeg in 2008, after growing up in Alberta and living in B.C.
Winnipeggers also voted to fill two school board trustee seats.
In Louis Riel School Division, former provincial education minister Peter Bjornson won the seat for ward 3 with 54 per cent of the popular vote.
And in Pembina Trails, teacher Samantha Pope won the ward 1 seat with 32 per cent of the vote.
