DRYDEN – Mayor Jack Harrison will begin a second term with a substantially changed council after winning a three-way mayoral race with 1,351 votes, or 48.9 per cent of ballots cast for mayor.
Derek Ouellette finished second with 1,197 votes, or 43.4 per cent, while Brenda Sedgwick received 212 votes, or 7.7 per cent, according to the city’s official results.
The six successful council candidates were David Durance with 1,878 votes, Michelle Price with 1,804, Dawn Jones with 1,712, Jim Dayman with 1,538, Catherine Kiewning with 1,422 and Bryan Tardiff with 1,375.
Price, Kiewning and Tardiff served on the outgoing council. Durance, Jones and Dayman join them for the 2026-30 term. The result also means outgoing councillors Martin MacKinnon, Bill Latham and Ritch Noel will not be part of the new council.
The city recorded 2,808 voters, a turnout of 42.3 per cent among 6,634 eligible electors. In 2022, turnout was 43.1 per cent, with 2,371 voters among 5,500 eligible electors. The number of participating voters rose by 437, although the turnout rate slipped by 0.8 percentage points as the voters list grew.
The new term begins Nov. 15. The city’s public election material does not yet set out committee assignments or a first-term work plan for the incoming council. Those decisions, along with early budget direction and meeting dates, will be the next points to watch.
Election results establish who will govern, but they do not by themselves establish a mandate on individual policy questions. Claims about the new council’s priorities should be tied to recorded campaign positions or direct interviews before publication.
Source notes
– City of Dryden, 2026 municipal election results. Results posted Oct. 27, 2026; time not stated; accessed Nov. 11, 2026, 6:43 a.m. EST.
– City of Dryden, 2026 election information and key dates. Current election page; accessed Nov. 11, 2026, 6:43 a.m. EST.
