{"id":68601,"date":"2021-11-10T15:13:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=68601"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T20:13:31","slug":"karen-daly-kelly-wins-a-second-term-in-thorne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/karen-daly-kelly-wins-a-second-term-in-thorne\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Daly Kelly wins a second term in Thorne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Thorne Mayor Karen Daly Kelly won a second term at the helm of council, prevailing over former mayor Terry Murdock, the same opponent she faced off against in 2017. She improved her margin of victory from her first campaign, garnering 69% of the vote compared to 65% four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>She said that she met with both new and long-time residents of the rural municipality over the course of the campaign, and said that some were surprised that she made the effort to knock on their door.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-68601-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Clip-Karen-Kelly-campaign.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Clip-Karen-Kelly-campaign.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Clip-Karen-Kelly-campaign.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Kelly said that for the next term, she\u2019s focusing on keeping the municipality\u2019s lakes and territory beautiful as well as improving the activities and play equipment available for children.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-68601-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Clip-Karen-Kelly-priorities.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Clip-Karen-Kelly-priorities.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Clip-Karen-Kelly-priorities.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The full interview with Kelly is available below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thorne council results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mayor : Karen Daly Kelly - 213 votes (69.16%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Terence Murdock\u00a0(former mayor) - 95 votes (30.84%)<\/p>\n<p>Councillor (1) : Robert Wills - 201 votes (69.55%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>James H. Hodgins\u00a0- 88 votes (30.45%)<\/p>\n<p>Councillor (2) : Marsha (Steinke) Bean\u00a0Elected by acclamation<\/p>\n<p>Councillor (3) :\u00a0Robert Blaskie\u00a0Elected by acclamation<\/p>\n<p>Councillor (4) : Deborah Stafford - 224 votes (76.98%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Robert Black\u00a0- 67 votes (23.02%)<\/p>\n<p>Councillor (5) : Robert Charette -169 votes (57.29%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Todd Smith\u00a0- 126 votes (42.71%)<\/p>\n<p>Councillor (6) : Jammie Lee Coursol - 210 votes (71.92%)<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Greg MacMillan\u00a0- 82 votes (28.08%)<\/p>\n<p>Registered voters - 633<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Number of valid votes - 308<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Votes rejected - 10\u00a0<img class=\"br-auto\" title=\"Automatic word wrap\" src=\"http:\/\/chipfm.com\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L10xH10\/br-auto-10-8beb9.png?1630491490\" alt=\"Automatic word wrap\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" \/><br class=\"autobr\" \/>Participation rate - 50.2%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Thorne Mayor Karen Daly Kelly won a second term at the helm of council, prevailing over former mayor Terry Murdock, the same opponent she faced off against in 2017. She improved her margin of victory from her first campaign, garnering 69% of the vote compared to 65% four years ago. She said that she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":68603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[225],"tags":[3778,4665,1507,10024],"radio":[239],"origine":[274,258,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68601"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=68601"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=68601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}