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Amarjeet Sohi won a sizable victory in Edmontons mayoral race, while incumbent city councillors had a mixed night.

Edmonton’s 89th election is well underway.

Edmontonians will elect a new mayor and council today.

Mayoral candidate Kim Krushell released her campaign donors, revealing more than $185,000 raised at minimum.

Several days after mayoral hopeful Amarjeet Sohi publicly released his donors list, the other frontrunning candidates still had not shared theirs.

Amarjeet Sohi is the only top-polling mayoral candidate who says Edmonton may have to raise taxes under his watch.

Edmonton mayoral candidates aren’t required to disclose their donors before election day, but all front-runners have committed to doing so. Mike Nickel and Amarjeet Sohi have made their lists public.

Five candidates hoping to become Edmonton’s next mayor debated the future of the $2.6 billion West LRT expansion Thursday morning - with two candidates in favour of hitting the brakes on the project.

The land is bought, trees have been cut, and utility workers were still tearing up streets Tuesday - but a mayoral candidate’s last minute promise to “pause” the West LRT expansion continued to send shockwaves through the campaign.

It’s an open race for the mayor’s chair in Edmonton’s civic election with 11 candidates vying for the seat left by two-term Mayor Don Iveson.