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The race for mayor of Prince George is heating up, as incumbent Simon Yu confirms he intends to run again despite two of the city's most popular sitting councillors also gunning for the position.
Yu will face Garth Frizzell, who is finishing his fifth term in council since first being elected in 2008, and Kyle Sampson, who was elected in 2018 and again in 2022. Also in the race is Roy Stewart, a local lawyer who finished third in the mayor's race when Yu was elected in 2022.
It is unusual for sitting councillors to challenge incumbent mayors for the top job in Prince George politics, which doesn't have a party system. Instead, the northern B.C. city of approximately 90,000 people votes in an at-large system, with every voter allowed to vote for one mayor and up to eight councillors who represent the city as a whole, resulting in a relatively cooperative environment.