Greenwood Votes 2026
Greenwood votes today: thank you and good luck to all eight candidates
Two people are running for mayor and six for four council seats. Polls close at 8 p.m.
Greenwood is choosing a new mayor and council today, and the Ledge wants to start the day by thanking the people who made this a real choice.
Running a campaign in a small town is not small work. This fall the candidates went door to door, took questions at the all-candidates forum at the McArthur Centre, sat down with residents over coffee and tea, and put their ideas out where everyone could weigh them. Some have served before and some are running for the first time. All of them were willing to have their names on a ballot and their ideas tested in public. That is how local democracy is supposed to work, and it deserves thanks from all of us, whoever we vote for.
Who is on the ballot
The City of Greenwood's official Notice of Election by Voting lists these candidates.
Mayor (one to be elected)
Barry Noll
C.J. Rhodes
Councillor (four to be elected)
Jason Atkins
Clint Huisman
Chrissy Lang
Jessica McLean
Gerry Shaw
Doug Trask
Photos: City of Greenwood (Huisman, McLean, Rhodes, Shaw); Grand Forks Gazette, contributed (Lang); Barry Noll campaign (Noll); Jason Atkins campaign (Atkins); Kicking Horse Showband FB (Trask).
Mayor John Bolt is not seeking re-election, so Greenwood will have a new mayor either way. The Ledge wishes every candidate good luck today.
There's still time to vote
General voting runs until 8:00 p.m. today at the McArthur Centre, 1355 Veterans Lane. If you are not on the voters list, you can register when you vote. Questions go to the City's election office at elections@greenwoodcity.ca or 250-445-6644.
Every ballot counts here, in the most literal sense. The City has reminded residents that the 2008 mayor's race was decided by 3 votes, that 3 votes separated the last council seat from the next candidate in 2014, and that the final council seat in 2018 was decided by 2.
What the community expects from the new council
Whoever is elected tonight, Greenwood residents have made their expectations clear. They want clear, prompt answers when they ask questions of the City and its leaders. They want budgets, taxes and spending explained in plain language. They want decisions made in the open, with real notice and a chance to be heard. And they want the promises made during this campaign followed through.
The Ledge also wants Greenwood to be a destination: a place people come to visit, invest in and choose to live, built on our heritage downtown, our history and the Boundary's outdoors. We hope the new council makes that a shared goal.
The Ledge intends to be supportive of the new mayor and council. A small town does best when its paper and its council can work in good faith. That support depends on prompt responses. When we bring residents' questions to City Hall, we will ask them fairly, give the City a reasonable time to reply, and publish the answers in full.
Where the Ledge stands
The Ledge, where the facts matter. We understand that rumours are the devil's radio. We bring current news and hard questions, and open responses are expected.
During a campaign that means checking claims before we repeat them and asking the same hard questions of everyone. After the election it means holding the new council to the same standard, and giving the people we write about a fair chance to answer.
An open invitation to the candidates
Once the results are declared, every candidate, elected or not, is invited to send the Ledge a response: thoughts on the result, thanks to supporters, or priorities for the next four years. Each candidate will be offered the same space, and we will publish responses as received. Send them to editor@ledgemediagroup.com.
We will post results tonight as the Chief Election Officer announces them. Results are unofficial until declared.
Source for the candidate list, voting place and hours: City of Greenwood, Notice of Election by Voting (published in the Grand Forks Gazette, Sept. 24, 2026); City of Greenwood Elections page and October 2026 newsletter (greenwoodcity.com).