Councillor David Ashford has been elected Mayor of Douglas for the 2012-2013 municipal year.

Members of the Council voted unanimously to elect Councillor Ashford to the office of Mayor at a statutory public Council meeting held earlier this week.

Council leader David Christian said the Mayor-elect and his mother, Sylvia Ashford, who will serve as Mayoress, would be ‘first class ambassadors for this Council, this town and our Island.’

A vote of thanks was proposed to the outgoing Mayor Ritchie McNicholl who with his wife Julie was congratulated on ‘an outstanding job well done.’

At 34 Councillor Ashford becomes the second youngest Mayor of Douglas, Councillor David Christian having been elected to the office in 1996 at the age of 31.

In the opening remarks of his installation address the newly installed Mayor thanked council members and said it was the greatest honour that had ever been bestowed on him.