Calgary’s next city council will be a patchwork of members from various political parties, independents, and a crop of rookies that will make it the least experienced — politically speaking — in more than a century.

Voters ousted a pair of sitting councillors, Terry Wong ( Ward 7 ) and Kourtney Penner ( Ward 11 ), and elected 10 first-timers in every quadrant, from the inner city to the far suburbs.

“People wanted change, and they wanted to try something different,” Penner told CBC News.

Several of her sitting council colleagues chose not to run rather than test the waters with a public nursing frustrations with the council led by now former mayor Jyoti Gondek, who finished in third place.

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