Wednesday, November 13 saw a flurry of civic elections across southern Saskatchewan, with wins and upsets across the board. Here are the preliminary results for some of the smaller urban centers.

Fast current

Al Bridal retained his mayoralty by acclamation.

The six city council seats will be occupied by Ryan Plewis (2,224 votes), Ryan Switzer (2,075), Leanne Tuntland-Wiebe (1,988), Tom Christiansen (1,850), Bruce Deg (1,456) and Courtney Stewart (1,440) .

The city’s three public school board seats went to Tim Ramage (1,252), Dianne Hahn and Ron Caswell (1,151), while the lone separate school board seat was held by Marc Perrault.

All results were listed as preliminary as of 9:00 p.m. Wednesday.

Estevan

Anthony Sernick will fill the mayor’s seat in The Energy City, replacing Roy Ludwig, who had held the role since 2012 and did not seek re-election.

Sernick defeated challenger Rebecca Foord by a margin of just 146 votes, according to unofficial results Wednesday night.

In third place, Zacch Vandenhurk came in third with 317 votes.

In the race for Estevan’s six council seatsShelly Veroba came in first for her third consecutive pick with 2,175. Verobe will be joined by Kirsten Walliser (1,992 votes), Brian Johnson (1,762), Dave Elliott (1,464), Tom Mauss (1,233) and Matthew Dubowski (1,048).

Weyburn

Unofficial results have Jeff Richards winning the mayoral race, defeating incumbent Marcel Roy by a margin of 900 votes – third place going to candidate Bruce Croft by just 21 votes.

The six city council seats will go to Kellie Sidloski (2,052), Todd Bedore (1,861), Larry Heggs (1,846), Laura Morrissette (1,808), Ryan Janke (1,783) and John Corrigan (1,574).

Melville

In Melville, Joe Kirwan was elected to be the town’s new mayor.

Kirwan, who has served for the past eight years as an advisor, got 837 votes defeated two other candidates, Maria Cole-Gayle, who received 323 votes, and Kenneth Cherney, who received 43 votes.

Kirwan will replace longtime Mayor Walter Streelasky, who served five terms as city leader before announcing in September that he would he is not seeking re-election.

Kirwan has lived in Melville for more than 40 years and has served 18 of those on the volunteer fire department.

He is currently Chair of the Rail City Industries Board, Melville and District Physician Recruitment and Retention Committee.

He also serves on the boards for the Lutheran House of St. Paul, Community Foundation and Melville Heritage Museum.

The results are due to be finalized on Thursday.