The dust has settled on another municipal election, and there will be four new faces on Edmonton’s City Council, one incumbent candidate will not return to City Hall and there will be two female councillors – while fewer Edmontonians cast ballots than in the last municipal election.

In the mayoral race, a total of thirteen candidates were vying for the seat – Don Iveson among them seeking re-election. In the end, Iveson garnered more than 72 percent of the vote, or 141,182 votes to win a second term in office.

Meanwhile, three councillors, in Wards 4, 5, and 9 decided to not seek re-election, leaving the races for those seats wide open.

In Ward 4, Aaron Paquette was elected to replace outgoing councillor Ed Gibbons. Paquette won against eleven other candidates for the seat, with 2,455 votes, or nearly 24 percent of the vote.

In Ward 5, Sarah Hamilton was voted in to replace Michael Oshry – she had 6,156 votes, or 35 percent of the vote. There were a total of nine candidates running for the seat, including five women.

Five candidates entered the race to replace Bryan Anderson in Ward 9, and Tim Cartmell earned the most votes by a wide margin, 9,160 (just over 41 percent of the vote). His closest competitor was Rob Agostinis with 4,763 votes.

While there were incumbent candidates in every other ward, there was one upset – Dave Loken lost his seat in Ward 3 to challenger Jon Dziadyk. The incumbent had 3,890 votes, but Dziadyk received 4,354, or nearly 30 percent of the vote.

As for voter turnout, there were an estimated 618,564 eligible voters in the City of Edmonton – and 194,826 cast ballots at 31.5 percent voter turnout. The numbers were down from the previous election in October, 2013, when there was 34.5 percent voter turnout, when 213,585 of the 619,138 eligible voters headed to the polls.