Calgary is officially welcoming a new city council on Wednesday, with a swearing-in ceremony marking the beginning of a fresh term at city hall.

Jeromy Farkas’s swearing-in as Calgary’s 38th mayor comes a day after an Elections Calgary recount confirmed the former Ward 11 councillor won a close election race. The recount showed Farkas received 91,112 votes, just 616 more than Sonya Sharp.

He'll chair the largest class of rookie city councillors that Calgary has elected in more than a century.

The 10 new faces are Kim Tyers (Ward 1), Andrew Yule (Ward 3), DJ Kelly (Ward 4), John Pantazopoulos (Ward 6), Myke Atkinson (Ward 7), Nathaniel Schmidt (Ward 8), Harrison Clark (Ward 9), Rob Ward (Ward 11), Mike Jamieson (Ward 12) and Landon Johnston (Ward 14).

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