Saskatoon election: Cynthia Block wins race for mayor [Video]

Cynthia Block is the 29th mayor of Saskatoon, and the first woman elected to the position in the city’s history.

Block lead with 27,415 votes by publication time, with all but two polls reporting. Runner up Gordon Wyant, had just under 19,000 votes.

Block was the only member of the previous council in the running for mayor. She represented Ward 6 for the last eight years before making her bid for the mayor’s chair.

Throughout the campaign, she fought the characterization that she was the torch bearer for outgoing mayor Charlie Clark’s old regime.

“I try to hear all sides, and then I do my homework. I read the evidence and the data that exists, and then it’s a judgment call in the field,” she told CTV News in an interview earlier this month.

“That’s the process that I take, and if it happens to align more or less with …