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Defeated incumbent
Kroon says shocked

ROD CLARK attended his first informal meeting

of North Vancouver City
ing, hours after an upset,

Clark was declared elected
shortly aftef 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, at the end of a
day-long judicial recount of

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council Thursday even-
recount election victory.

votes that overturned the
results of the Nov. 19
municipal election.

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Elko Kroon, a six-year
veteran of City council who
had gone into the court-
ordered count a single vote
ahead of Clark, is no longer
an alderman.

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Final tally in the recount
was 1,413 votes for Clark and
1,411 for Kroon.

According to Kroon, the
results changed because two

votes that had been accepted
by the returning officer on
election night and at a final
count were rejected by the
judge and one that had been
rejected was accepted. The
net result was the three-vote
switch.

**There’s not much to com-
ment on,’’ said Kroon of the
Tesults, although he did ad-
mit it was a bit of a shock.

**It’s something I’ve done
for the last six years and

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something I’ve got involved
with and all of a sudden I’m
not doing it any more,’’
Kroon said.

Clark, understandably,
said he was elated by the
results of the recount.

He described the day-long
count of votes, carried out
poll by poll, as tense.

**It was also conducted in a
fair and open manner and |
feel both candidates felt that
justice has been done,’’ Clark

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said.

The informal meeting of
council Thursday, 4t which
new aldermen were briefed
on council procedures and
committee appointments
were discussed, was follow-
ed, Clark said, by some late-
night celebrating.

Clark, and others elected
to councils across the North
Shore, will be sworn into of-
fice at inaugural council
meetings Monday night.

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