Squamish New Directions is down from five members of District of Squamish Council to just two.
Mayor Ian Sutherland was re-elected with the support of 54 per cent of the votes to beat his opponent Terrill Patterson.
Sutherland said that despite his own re-election, he was disappointed because three the people on his team, Jeff Dawson, Sonja Lebans and Dave Fenn, did not receive enough support to return to their council seats.
"I sincerely believe that Sonja, Jeff and Dave did a great job for the last three years," Sutherland said. "I'm surprised and shocked. It was clearly an anti-slate vote, I respect that and will move on."
Incumbent Ray Peters, the only re-elected SND councillor, said he was shocked by the results.
The highest polling councillor was veteran Corinne Lonsdale. She received votes from 2,827 people.
Incumbent Raj Kahlon polled the next highest number of votes at 2,223,, while Jeff McKenzie polled third with 1,955 votes.Peters had the support of 1,755 voters while Mike Jenson polled next at 1,636 votes.
Patricia Heintzman took the final councillor seat with 1,538 votes.
Larry McLennan finished in seventh position, only 27 votes behind Heintzmanat 1,511, while Bryan Raiser placed eighth with 1,501 votes.
Wilf Dowad (1,473), Lebans (1,465) Sheila Allen (1,456) and Fenn (1,434) were all within 100 votes of the final council spot, while Dawson (1,333), Mohammad Afsar (1,300), Jess LaFramboise (815) and Adelaida Miranda (200) lagged behind.
"You have to give credit to the new people elected that they got the word out," said Peters. "Now a formation is pretty well built to move forward."
Dawson said he was surprised and it wasn't the result he expected.
"I wish them [new councillors] every success," he said. "I hope they make Squamish an even better place to be."
Lebans said the numbers disappointed her.
"I feel I did a good job and had something to offer," she said. "But I'm a very democratic person and believe in what people vote for."Sutherland said his job now is to work with the new council to put together a team.
"The bright side is we have progressive people on council," he said. "My job is to work with the new council to find common ground. I don't want past judgments to get in the way of that. Hopefully the present council can look further than three years ahead. The past council did that."
Only 44 per cent of eligible voters cast ballots this election, down significantly from the 2002 electiopn (62 per cent) and the 1999 election (59.5 per cent)[email protected]
