It's always interesting to watch the results come in on a municipal eleciton. And to compare those results with your predictions.
The results as of midnight are...
Mayor
Bertram, David 4,586
Bronconnier, David (incumbent) 105,066
Fielding, Elizabeth Kaur 3,274
Foster, Allan 5,393
Heck, Harry 3,236
Jenkins, Sandy 13,669
Kassam, Alnoor 29,156
Sunstrum, Jonathan Joseph 1,562
Zhao, Jeremy 7,097
Nice to see that Bronconnier got it - although I was quite surprised to see how far back Alnoor Kassam was, even for second place. Also of note, Jeremy Zhao hit in the middle of the pack with a respectable 7,097 votes.
WARD 1
Banks, Jennifer 8,447
Hodges, Dale (incumbent) 11,799
Perrault, Normand 844
Dale defends his title with a significant lead, followed by Jennifer Banks and then Norm Perrault.
Watching the individual polls on this one was quite interesting - those polls that overlapped with Calgary Bow - mostly in Bowness and Montgomery - showed a stronger presense for Jennifer Banks. Not surprising because Banks ran as an NDP candidate in the last provincial election and had greater name recognition in those areas.
WARD 2
Avramenko, Terry 2,102
Del Re, Daniel M. 301
Lowe, Gord (incumbent) 9,784
Magliocca, Biagio 3,791
A clear vicotry for God Lowe, with Biagio taking second place.
WARD 3
Chahal, George 3,597
Larocque, Helene (incumbent) 2,676
Stevenson, Jim 3,815
Helen Laroque is unseated by Jim Stevenson as I predicted. I expected a tight race - and it certainly was between Jim and George with 218 vote difference, this one might go for a recount.
WARD 4
Evans, Richard 1,518
Hawkesworth, Bob (incumbent) 5,566
Peterson, Alex 652
Bob takes it by a significant lead! (I'm pretty happy to see that Richard's state-style tactics didn't go very far with voters in Ward 4).
WARD 5
El-Rafih, Mohamed 1,665
Jones, Ray (incumbent) 7,186
Again, right on the money - Ray Jones with a significant margin.
WARD 6
Berglund, Rosemary 77
Burrows, Craig (incumbent) 2,672
Connelly, Joe 3,263
Istvanffy, James Donald 994
Kohut, James 359
Craig Burrows has lost his seat to Joe Connelly. For a while the polls were quite close, and then Joe pulled away. I thought this one would be a bit closer for Craig, but it's good to see that a fairly reasonable candidate pulled through. It is with a bit of humour that I note 77 people voted for Rosemary - even though she withdrew from the race (after deadline so her name was still on the ballot). James Istvanffy was much closer the last election - it looks like he lost significant ground this time around.
WARD 7
Aithal, Jag 455
Eldridge, Barry 1,939
Farrell, Druh (incumbent) 7,462
Terleski, Merle 1,106
Druh takes it with the clear victory that I expected to see. Barry did a bit better than I had expected.
WARD 8
Chapman, Steve 2,588
King, Madeleine (incumbent) 2,890
Luhnau, Lindsay 1,010
Mar, John 3,133
It is close, and John Mar did significantly better than I had expected, although Steve Chapman had a decent showing as well. This one could still go to a recount.
WARD 9
Ceci, Joe (incumbent) 6,938
Koenig, Al 4,825
Waciak, Stan 550
Joe takes it, and by a stronger margin than I was expecting. Al had a good run, but one platform for 'Rambo' was not good enough to unseat the voice of reason.
WARD 10
Chabot, Andre (incumbent) 7,984
Dossa, Nargis 1,014
I didn't expect Chabot to have much trouble holding onto his seat, and he pulled well ahead of the competition.
WARD 11
Matthews, Dave 787
Murray, James M. (Jim) 1,779
Pincott, Brian 2,821
Rockwell, Jim 689
Whelan, Evonne 1,912
As expected Pincott takes the seat by a strong margin.
WARD 12
Halfyard, Nick 1,157
McIver, Ric (incumbent) 11,162
And it's the Return of Ric, but I was happy to see that Halfyard took about ten percent of the votes - quite sigificant for a man who ran a secret campaign... so secret that he almost managed to keep his website hidden from me. (At least Ric wasn't acclaimed. I look at the votes for Nick as votes against Ric. I would love to know how many ballots in this riding were spoiled).
And that's a wrap, until the recount. The new counsellors step forward.
2 comments:
It's a pity that Halfyard ran a stealth campaign. But then, after reviewing some of his policy platforms about the only thing he would improve on Ric would be a lack of association with Craig Chandler.
Dragon: I enjoy the commentary. Hope you keep it up - heaven knows there will be more than enough elections to keep the blogs busy in the next 6 months or so. :)
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