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UPDATE: Team Cote's heading for a dream night in New West

It appears to have been the Dream Team for Cote. With 16 of 20 polls reporting back, every single candidate is so far making it into office.
New West Progressive, election night
Folks watch results come in at the New West Progressives part at the Royal City Curling Club.

It appears to have been the Dream Team for Cote.

With 16 of 20 polls reporting back, every single candidate is so far making it into office.

Cote himself took a commanding lead in the mayor's race right out of the gate, and hasn't relented, holding 73 per cent of the vote after 16 polls.

The six members of his council team are so far going back-and-forth with each other for the six council spots: Jaimie McEvoy, Patrick Johnston, Chuck Puchmayr, Nadine Nakagawa, Mary Trentadue and Chinu Das. So far it's newcomer Nadine Nakagawa sitting pretty on top, with her vote total now up to 6.175.

So far, the Progressives’ Daniel Fontaine is maintaining his hold on seventh spot, with his running mate Ellen Vaillancourt moving into eighth, but the gap between Fontaine and a council seat seems to be widening, and hopes of breaking the Team Cote dominance seem to be fading.

On the school board slate, Team Cote's five candidates are also in the top five spots after 16 polls - Anita Ansari, Dee Beattie, Gurveen Dhaliwal, Mark Gifford and Maya Russell - while the remaining two spots have shifted. Now, incumbent Mary Lalji (independent) and the Progressives' Danielle Connelly are tentatively sitting in those places. Cyrus Sy and Lisa Falbo of the Progressives, and independent Alejandro Diaz, can't be counted out of the mix either.

Four polls still to report, and results are coming fast and furious now. We should know, fairly soon, who's captured the spots.