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Mayoral candidate Sadie Hunter (left) speaks with councillor candidate Dale Bass (second from right) and husband Alan Bass (right) during her election night gathering at the Yew Street Food Hall in North Kamloops. Hunter finished third in the fiveperson mayoral race, while Bass was re-elected to council, finishing sixth on the 23-person ballot. The top eight candidates on the ballot were elected. ALLEN DOUGLAS/KTW

Mayoral runners-up ponder their election night results

JESSICA WALLACE AND MICHAEL POTESTIO STAFF REPORTERS

Dieter Dudy’s campaign headquarters downtown was emptying out on Saturday night, with uneaten food and drinks left to be consumed.

Dudy said he was not surprised by the results of the election that saw him place second in the mayoral race, behind mayor-elect Reid Hamer-Jackson. Sadie Hunter was third, Arjun Singh placed fourth and Ray Dhaliwal finished fifth.

“Because I felt that sense of populism on the part of the people,” Dudy said. “They’re angry — and I wasn’t necessarily the answer.”

Dudy believes Hamer-Jackson tapped into an anger vote.

“Absolutely,” Dudy said. “Because that’s exactly what he was going for. It was something that affected him personally and that’s exactly what he was striving for. My hope is that it goes beyond that for him and that he recognizes all the things that are necessary for the community. I’m sure that he’s going to give that a lot of thought moving forward.”

Dudy said he is disappointed.

“I honestly felt that I could offer this community something from my eight years’ experience as a councillor and move them ahead with respect to vision and that,” he said.

“But, you know, it’s up to the public to decide what they want and they’ve done that and I need to accept that.”

Asked if he and fellow mayoral candidates Sadie Hunter and Arjun Singh — all three being incumbent councillors — split the vote and let Hamer-Jackson win, Dudy replied:

“It’s hard to say. I mean, possibly. Sadie was in the equation, too. Who knows? I just feel that it came down to the fact that he had a particular support behind him and I had whatever support I had. And it was strong. It was strong. I came in second.”

Both Hunter and Dhaliwal told KTW they felt they ran good campaigns.

Hunter said she was proud of the campaign she ran, describing it as the most positively focused campaign of the five mayoral candidates.

Both Hunter and Dhaliwal said they felt Hamer-Jackson resonated with voters who were angry.

“Much of what was said was rhetoric and it was toxic and I’m concerned what’s going to happen when he realizes he can’t do a lot of what he said,” Hunter said. “I’m worried for our community. I think people will be more frustrated and more angry.”

Dhaliwal said he felt voters were most concerned about homelessness and crime. He said he could not campaign on those issues to the extent Hamer-Jackson did as Dhaliwal noted he knows — from his one-year stint on council from 2017 to 2018 — that there are limitations on what the city can do. He said issues on criminal justice are outside the municipal purview.

“I couldn’t promise things that I knew I couldn’t do anything about, so my campaign focused on the taxpayers, the youth and the seniors, mostly,” Dhaliwal said.

He said he felt Hamer-Jackson overpromised on those areas, but noted the mayor-elect has four years to show Kamloops what he can do.

“He made a big point on it and people bought into it,” Dhaliwal said, adding he is interested in seeing the ideas Hamer-Jackson has in store, but doubts the success rate of the idea for a recovery centre locally.