A year ago, Andrew Knack was ready to walk away from politics. Now, he will be the next mayor of Edmonton.

On Tuesday, Global News declared him the winner of the mayoral race, a day after an election that saw long lines at the polls due to new procedures requiring paperwork to be filled out and all votes counted by hand.

Knack will address his win at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Global News will livestream that news conference at the top of this story.

Knack was declared before all the votes for mayor were counted after his main competition, Tim Cartmell, conceded the race Tuesday afternoon when he was at 29 per cent of the vote to Knack’s lead of 38.5 per cent.

“Running for mayor has been the honour of my life. Edmonton is a city built by doers — by people who work hard, fix what’s broken, and

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