[2] She ran for the mayoralty in 1973, winning the election and serving two terms in office.
[2] She was later reelected as a councillor at large in 1985, and remained a sitting member of city council until her death;[4] she died just two days before the city's 2001 municipal election, and was posthumously reelected to her seat on September 25.
[4] She was a candidate for provincial office twice, running as an independent candidate in St. John's Centre[3] and later for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador in the party's 1979 leadership convention.
She didn't vote for herself, admitting that she had run more "to shake things up" than out of a serious desire to actually lead the party,[3] and was eliminated on the first ballot.
[3] Wyatt revelled in a quirky and offbeat public image, once telling a reporter that she hoped to be classified "as a freak, I suppose".