Municipalities throughout the Parkland are set to get back to work under new councils following the Manitoba general Municipal Election, Oct. 26.

While some positions were acclaimed, many seats were filled following hard fought battles.

Here are the results from around the region:

Alonsa

The Rural Municipality of Alonsa will have some vacant seats at the council table following last week’s vote.

Tom Anderson was acclaimed as head of council. In Ward 1 the seat remains vacant while Tim Stott will represent Ward 2, Travis Turko will represent Ward 3, Mike Brown will serve voters in Ward 4, Terry Dayholos will represent Ward 5 and Logan Dumanske will serve Ward 6. All were acclaimed.

In the LUD of Alonsa, William Cabak and Harry Harris were acclaimed, while one seat will remain vacant.

In the LUD of Amaranth, Shirley Merke will serve after being acclaimed, while two seats remain vacant.

Ethelbert

In the Municipality of Ethelbert, Michael Goy was acclaimed as head of council, while the councillors he will work with had to compete for their seats.

Elected were Mike Moroz, who received 203 votes, or 17.74 per cent of the ballots cast; Greg Woytkiewicz, with 202 votes or 17.66 per cent of the ballots cast; Mike Semeniuk with 192 votes or 16.78 per cent of the ballots cast; and Kyle Lylyk, with 155 votes or 13.55 per cent of the ballots cast.

Coming up short in their bid for a seat were Larry Dudar with 148 votes, Mercil (Mitch) Michaluk with 142 votes and Paul Chymy with 102 votes.

Gilbert Plains

In the Municipality of Gilbert Plains, voters did not have to go to the polls as all seats were filled via acclamation.

Jim Manchur will serve as head of council, while council seats will be filled by Crystal Bates, Todd Brinkman, Trent Crowe, Ryan Paziuk, Grant Pope and Craig Von Bargen.

Grandview

Lyle Morran will serve as mayor of Grandview municipality after receiving 351 votes, or 62.9 per cent of the ballots cast to defeat Tom Worth, who earned 207.

In the rural race, Jeff Elliott received 185 votes, or 25.03 per cent of the ballots cast to earn a seat, along with Clinton Myers, who earned 180 votes and Craig Clow, who received 160 votes. Coming up short were Dwayne Bomak with 116 votes and Doug Zamonsky with 98 votes.

In the urban race, Tom Stirling led all candidates with 178 votes or 24.28 per cent of the ballots cast. Also elected were Barry Bailey with 156 votes and Jim Winfield with 127 votes. Failing in their bid for a seat were Joseph Kothlow, who received 102 votes, Vern Kattler with 85 votes and Robbyn Todoruk with 85 votes.

Lakeshore

The Rural Municipality of Lakeshore was ripe with candidates for the Oct. 26 vote. Clayton Watts will serve as head of council after receiving 364 votes, or 59.48 per cent of the ballots cast to defeat Bryan Preston, who earned 207 votes, and Jeff Konowalchuk, who received 41 votes.

In Ward 1, Fred Schurko topped the field after receiving 120 votes, or 24.29 per cent of the ballots cast. Also successful were Richard Kachur with 96 votes and Shanna Cowal with 93 votes. Coming up short in their attempts were Caudy Ray with 68 votes, Ernie Smadella with 60 votes and Malcolm Scott with 57 votes.

In Ward 2, Clayton Foster led the race with 263 votes or 25.05 per cent of the ballots cast. He will serve along with Michael R. Brunen Sr., who received 229 votes and Gavin Thompson, who earned 210 votes. Coming up short were Nathan Hulley with 178 votes, Jean Giesel with 122 votes and Brianna Williams with 48 votes.

Rick Sonnenberg is the head of council in the Municipality of McCreary after receiving 335 votes, or 82.31 per cent of the ballots cast to defeat Shawn Buchanan, who received 72 votes.

Filling seats on council are Donna Duggan, who earned 332 votes, Carey Conrad, who received 304 votes, Curt Janzen with 304 votes and Larry McLauchlan with 241 votes. Dave Thomson was the lone candidate left out in the cold after receiving 8.8 per cent of the ballots cast with 114 votes.

Mossey River

Mossey River Municipality will be under the direction of Reynold Sahulka after he was acclaimed as head of council.

In the rural ward, Barry Heppner finished atop the field with 124 votes or 27.31 per cent of the ballots cast. Also successful in their bids were Gregory Boyko with 122 votes and Larry Pascal with 113 votes. John Devos with 95 votes failed to earn a seat.

In the urban ward, all seats were filled through acclamation by Riley Chartrand, Ivan Fleming and Angel Johnson.

Ste. Rose

Robert Brunel was acclaimed as head of council for the Ste. Rose Municipality.

Steven Hopfner finished ahead of all councillor candidates with 277 votes, or 17.94 per cent of the ballots cast. He will be joined at the table by Shari Shankaruk, who received 260 votes, Ivan Worrall, who earned 255 votes and Robert Killam, who finished with 253 votes. Not elected were Noel Labelle with 247 votes, Darrel Deslaurier with 146 votes and Joey Frobisher, who finished with 106 votes.

MVSD School Board

The municipal election also included the selection of a new board of trustees for Mountain View School Division.

With most seats filled by acclamation, only one race took place in Ward 3, which includes the RMs of Dauphin, Lakeshore and Mossey River, as well as parts of McCreary and RM of Mountain. Gabe Mercier led the field with 934 votes and was elected along with Jason Gryba, who received 482 votes. Ashleigh Yaskowich, with 457 votes, and Nick Jewell with 248, failed to earn a seat.

In Ward 1, Roblin, Floyd Martens and Leifa Misko were acclaimed.

Ward 2, which encompasses Grandview, Gilbert Plains, Ethelbert and part of Mountain South saw Charlene Gulak and Paul Coffey acclaimed.

In Ward 4, the City of Dauphin, acclaimed were Scott McCallum, Kerri Wieler and John Taylor.