India, Oct. 19 -- An Indo-Canadian was elected mayor of Fernie while another person of Indian origin was re-elected as Williams Lake's top city official as municipal election results were declared in Canada's westernmost province of British Columbia. A third Indo-Canadian was elected the Mission city's youngest mayor without a contest a month earlier.

Incumbent mayors were defeated as the elections were held for 161 municipalities and 27 regional districts on Saturday across British Columbia, where South Asians account for 9.6% of the population, according to the 2021 census.

Harshan Ramadass, better known as Harsh, the Fernie mayor-elect, has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Bangalore University's Visvesvaraya Col...