This year’s municipal election is now over and a new Osoyoos council will meet early in November.

The council will look very much like the last one, except that Mike Campol and Carol Youngberg have been replaced by Brian Harvey and Myers Bennett.

The other three incumbents –Mayor Sue McKortoff and councillors C.J. Rhodes and Jim King – return to their old seats.

Most of the candidates this year were of a high quality, including all the ones who were elected.

But more than before, this council is predominently male and over age 60.

With Youngberg gone, McKortoff is the only female on council. And with Campol gone, there are no more councillors from post-Baby Boom generations.

That appears to be the result of two causes.

Of the three women running for council seats, only Jane Long has been here long enough to have had some name recognition going into the election.

Shelley McIntyre and Sherani Theophilus both impressed us as being up to the job if elected, but relatively few people know them.

Hopefully they will use the next four years to become better known and try again.

All three would have provided a younger and female perspective.

But probably the biggest factor is that not enough younger people are bothering to vote, and therefore those demographics remain unrepresented.

The voting lines at the Sonora Centre, we’re told, were dominated by voters with grey hair and turnout was abysmally low.