Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek fails in bid for 2nd term
Global News
In 2021, Jyoti Gondek became the first woman ever elected as mayor of Calgary, but on Monday she also became the first incumbent mayor since 1980 not to be re-elected.
In 2021, Jyoti Gondek made history, becoming the first woman ever elected mayor of Calgary.
Four years later, she becomes the first incumbent to fail to win re-election since 1980 when Ross Alger lost to an upstart politician named Ralph Klein.
After trailing in third place all evening after the polls closed on Monday, Gondek offered a concession speech shortly before midnight.
“This didn’t end up the way we all hoped, but I’m standing here very proud of what we have built together, and I’m profoundly grateful for the privilege of having served this incredible city, the best city in the world,” Gondek said to an assembled crowd of her supporters.
Gondek was first elected as a councillor in Ward 3 in 2017.
Four years later, she was chosen, along with an almost entirely new council, to lead the city out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But her time as mayor quickly got off to a bumpy start with the council’s declaration of a climate emergency in November 2021, which prompted a lot of public backlash.
Add to that the collapse of a deal to build the Flames a new arena and early polls showed she had become deeply unpopular.
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