Leaders grapple with lower turnout in Thunder Bay election
Turnout in Thunder Bay's recent municipal election fell below 43 per cent, a sharp drop from 2018.
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Turnout in Thunder Bay's recent municipal election fell below 43 per cent, a sharp drop from 2018.
Voters in Thunder Bay have shown their desire for familiar faces around the city council table for the next four years, re-electing Ken Boshcoff and seven incumbent candidates. But the municipal election results also reflect an appetite for change.
Incumbent candidates carried an advantage in a handful of Thunder Bay’s seven ward contests.
No one's exactly sure where it came from, but the ongoing drought has revealed a more than 100-year-old shipwreck that was hidden in the Mississippi River.
Seven Thunder Bay city councillors won another term in office on Monday. With election night behind them, they say they're ready to return to work with a new mandate and unfinished business left to handle.