- by Anne Finlay-Stewart, Editor

• Voter turnout was 43.9% (52.2% in 2014; 49.3% in 2010). The mayor said it was because the electorate is contented. Turnout in other municipalities using online voting and reports of big gaps in the electors' list may suggest that is not the only possible explanation for the drop.
• Election results were postponed by a full day after the City declared an emergency under the Municipal Elections Act to extend voting by 24 hours.
• The two candidates who knocked on the most doors and engaged the most voters won council seats but both reported sore feet.
• The council candidate who made the most use of video and Facebook came last.
• 352 people voted for a candidate for mayor who had withdrawn from the election due to her husband's health, and 186 people who cast votes did not select any mayor
• .2415 people had no problem voting for a deputy mayoral candidate who's only lived here 3 years. Is that a vote of confidence in newcomers?
• Women on council – still 2 out of 9. As council members also sit on city committees, female representation there could continue to be low. (The highest number of women on council in Owen Sound has been 3 out of 9, from 2010 to 2014).Owen Sound Council members range in age from late twenties to late sixties.
• A record number of signs were reported vandalized, removed or blown down (signs of the two candidates using wooden stakes did not suffer the latter fate.)
• Campaign signs need to be removed by this Friday at 8 p.m.