Next month's municipal election for Delta council and the Delta school board will be a more competitive affair compared to three years ago.
When the nomination period closed last Friday, 37 candidates had filed papers to run in the Nov. 19 election.
Four are running for mayor, 13 are vying for one of the six councillor seats, while 20 are looking to land one of the seven trustee positions.
The council total is up slightly from 2008, but it is the school board race that is decidedly different. During the last election the board was acclaimed when only seven candidates put their names forward, yet now there almost three times as many candidates as available seats.
