Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Official Election Spending List released - City of Williams Lake

Earlier today - the City of Williams Lake released the full list of campaign financial disclosure information that candidates (successful or not) were required to submit by 5pm this past Monday.

See media stories on this topic here/here

As of tonight - all but Paul Kandola & Teresa Fairburn have filed their election campaign financial disclosure forms.  If Mr. Kandola & Ms. Fairburn do not file a campaign finance disclosure form by Wednesday, April 18th then they will be disqualified from running in the October 2014 civic election in Williams Lake

For the record - here is the full list of campaign election expenses in the 2011 Local Gov't Election for the City of Williams Lake

Office of Mayor - 3 of 3 reporting:

Candidate
Amount Spent
$ per vote
# of Votes received




Scott Nelson
$34,399
$31.56 per vote
1090
Kerry Cook (Mayor)
$11,046
$6.22 per vote
1777
Walt Cobb
$9,842.90
$13.18 per vote
747

Office of Councillor - 12 of 14 reporting:


Candidate
Amount Spent
$ per vote
# of votes received




Surinderpal Rathor (Councillor)
$5,644.24
$2.71 per vote
2,082
Richard Vollo
$5,050.18
$5.61 per vote
900
Laurie Walters (Councillor)
$4,776.76
$2.08 per vote
2,296
Peter Bowman
$2,796.76
$2.93 per vote
955
Michael Bouchard
$2,789.42
$2.78 per vote
1,004
Sue Zacharias (Councillor)
$2,147.69
$1.07 per vote
2,004
Mike Jacobsen
$1,636.70
$1.44 per vote
1,135
Ivan Bonnell (Councillor)
$1,566.07
$0.90 per vote
1,742
Gord Keener
$795.65
$1.20 per vote
663
Danica Hughes (Councillor)
$522.85
$0.45 per vote
1,156
Steve Forseth
$343.84
$0.45 per vote
756




Geoff Bourdon (Councillor)
$0.00
$0.00 per vote
1,501


Based on the above - the evidence shows you didn't necessarily have to spend a lot to get elected such is the case for WL City Councillors Geoff Bourdon and Danica Hughes

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