Princeton’s published municipal election tally shows a tie for the fourth council seat, with Paula Shackleton and Tyler Willis each receiving 391 votes. Spencer Coyne leads the mayoral tally with 666 votes.
This page follows the municipal mayor and council races. Preliminary figures can change before a formal declaration or a subsequent election decision.
A preliminary label or a missing declaration is not evidence that counting is continuing. No current ongoing count has been independently verified for this page.
The fourth-seat outcome remains unverified. No recount order or tie-resolution decision has been verified in the sources reviewed; neither tied candidate is declared elected here.
Result status
Preliminary results; council seat tied
Results verified: 2026-10-22 (Pacific time).
Mayor
Spencer Coyne — 666 votes
Council: published leading candidates
- Barb Gould — 690 votes
- Doug Pateman — 575 votes
- George Elliott — 501 votes
Fourth council seat unresolved
- Paula Shackleton — 391 votes — tied; outcome unverified
- Tyler Willis — 391 votes — tied; outcome unverified
What happens next
Check for an official declaration and any subsequent recount or tie-resolution notice.
All municipal results in this region
Updates
Bookmark this page for the next verified update. Sources are scheduled for daily review; new figures are published when verified. The verification date identifies the evidence used here, rather than a claim of a live count.
- 2026-10-22: Results page first published with the source status and available figures shown above.
Sources
Municipal election officials issue the formal declarations. CivicInfo BC tallies are labelled preliminary until a formal declaration is verified. School-board and provincial results are excluded.