CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. - Greg Rivard will be returning to Charlottetown council after no candidates came forward to run against him.
As the only candidate after the Friday deadline it means Rivard wins his Ward 7 seat by acclamation.
Rivard, who was first elected to council in 2014, is the only incumbent who is unopposed this election.
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During the 2014 election Rivard beat former councillor and current mayoral candidate Cecil Villard.
Rivard served as chairman of the planning and heritage committees during his first term in office and has lived in the Ward 7 since 2006.
Voters in all P.E.I. municipalities go to the polls on Nov. 5.
Charlottetown municipal election candidates
Mayor:
Philip Brown
Kim Devine
Jamie Larkin
William Izzard McFadden
Cecil Villard
Ward 1:
Laurent Beaulieu
Ron Dowling
Paul Haddad
Alanna Jankov
Leo Killorn
Ward 2:
Terry MacLeod
Justin Muttart
Ward 3:
Norman Beck
Mike Duffy
Keith Kennedy
Frank MacEachern
Ward 4:
Valentine Gomez
Mitchell Tweel
Richard Turner
Ward 5:
Kenneth Desroches
Pauline MacIntyre
Kevin Ramsay
Ward 6:
Bob Doiron
Melissa Hilton
David W. MacDonald
Ward 7:
Greg Rivard
Ward 8:
Jason Coady
Trevor MacKinnon
Ward 9:
Lornie Hughes
Julie McCabe
Ward 10:
Terry Bernard
Ryan Cooke
Jason MacKinnon
