Reid Hamer-Jackson went from mayor to placing fourth out of four in Saturday’s election, but Kamloops wasn’t the only city to oust its incumbent mayor.

Of the four major centres in the region, only Kelowna voters gave the sitting mayor another term in a tight election night race, Saturday, Oct. 17.

Tom Dyas gets a second term after beating former city councillor Ron Cannan with 19,451 votes, a difference of less than 1,000. On city council, only Maxine DeHart was ousted among incumbents who were running, while three reclaimed their spot.

Voter sentiment against incumbents was perhaps most prevalent in Kamloops. Three of eight incumbents are back in the job, not including mayor-elect Mike O’Reilly who has two city council terms under his belt and was heavily favoured to win.

Vernon voters also ousted incumbent mayor Victor Cumming with former councillor Kari Gares taking over as mayor-elect. Two of four Vernon incumbent councillors were voted in.

Julius Bloomfield is out after one term as Penticton’s mayor, replaced by Dan Ashton. Penticton voters chose three of the five incumbents.

In Kamloops, O’Reilly not only won by a large margin but the city also had the largest turnout among voters. More than 35% of eligible voters showed up to the polls, where they put incumbent Reid Hamer-Jackson in fourth place among six candidates, with nearly 44% choosing O’Reilly.

Kelowna and Penticton saw around 30% of voters show up while Vernon had a 25% voter turnout. The lowest was in West Kelowna where less than a fifth of voters showed up to the polls and, in a city of around 40,000 people, its next mayor Stephen Johnston had no challengers.