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« Reply #300 on: October 27, 2014, 12:47:02 PM »

It's finally here, my rundown of the municipal races in Ontario's 51 largest cities: http://canadianelectionatlas.blogspot.ca/2014/10/ontario-muncipal-elections-today.html

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« Reply #301 on: October 27, 2014, 03:15:42 PM »

I just voted. Here was your beloved moderator's ballot today:

Mayor: Jim Watson (the incumbent) - he's boring, but competent enough and the other candidates were crazies and/or nobodies. I have nothing against wasting your vote on an also-ran, but I didn't find anybody good enough to throw my vote at (I briefly considered voting for the Carleton student with the mustache, but meh).

City Council (Innes Ward): Jody Mitic - the former 2013 Amazing Race runner-up, which is the main reason I voted for him, but I also like him as a person and his ideas were good (he may or may not be the most progressive candidate). My ward has a retiring incumbent so there are some 9 candidates (iirc), and all but one have signs and all more or less promise the same thing (for a suburban ward such as this one, this means competent pragmatism/more transit/keeping parks green and the usual pablum for moderate suburbanites), although some of the other candidates seem to focus a bit more on taxes too (Laura Dudas, Fred 'pedostache' Sherwin, François Trépanier). I have no clue who will win, although I suppose the general idea that it's a 4-way race (Mitic, Dudas, Sherwin, Trépanier) is correct although some other candidates have some property lawn signs (one Teresa Whitmore, who is promising 'experience' on basis of having been a local politico in Belleville, lol). Except for a random guy called Andrew Modray, who appears to be a right-wing nutcase, all candidates seem sane.

School Board: Sandra Schwartz. Went to my high school, has a kid there now - given that I don't give a sh**t about school board politics, that's good enough for me. It's an open seat with 3 candidates, and the other main one seems to be endorsed by the unions.
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« Reply #302 on: October 27, 2014, 03:23:48 PM »

Jim Watson is making it hard for me to not vote for him.
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« Reply #303 on: October 27, 2014, 03:27:31 PM »

Jim Watson is making it hard for me to not vote for him.

Is there a more left-wing candidate in the race that we know of? The main opponents (eg those who at least have a website) seem to be various shades of conservatives and generally nutty.
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« Reply #304 on: October 27, 2014, 04:05:24 PM »

Jim Watson is making it hard for me to not vote for him.

Is there a more left-wing candidate in the race that we know of? The main opponents (eg those who at least have a website) seem to be various shades of conservatives and generally nutty.

Not with a website, but if you like "the rent is too damn high" types, then there's Michael St. Arnaud. He hasn't been that active in the campaign, but he did fill out an ACORN questionnaire and was the only mayoral candidate to agree with everything they asked.

But yeah, this is the worst field of mayoral candidates since 1997.
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« Reply #305 on: October 27, 2014, 05:10:56 PM »

The city of Toronto's official results will be here and the Toronto Star's here.

The Star page looks like it will be reporting the mayor by ward, while the city page doesn't, but it's a bit hard to tell at this point.
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« Reply #306 on: October 27, 2014, 07:07:19 PM »

Not that any of you (except maybe Hash) care, but here are the Ottawa results: http://ottawa.ca/election/index_en.html

CBC is doing a live stream too: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/watch-cbc-news-election-special-for-ottawa-at-8-p-m-et-1.2812486
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« Reply #307 on: October 27, 2014, 07:15:18 PM »

lol Rebecca Pyrah is in third place
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« Reply #308 on: October 27, 2014, 07:18:07 PM »

The counting is fast, with the voting machines.

With 65% of polls in, Tory 39%, Ford 35%, Chow 22%.
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« Reply #309 on: October 27, 2014, 07:25:40 PM »

Rob Ford at 60% in his ward. Tongue
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« Reply #310 on: October 27, 2014, 07:28:24 PM »

Tory wins Tongue close though. Chow in distant third Sad
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« Reply #311 on: October 27, 2014, 07:31:44 PM »

I really love how CBC Toronto was quicker to project Tory as the winner in a close race than CBC Ottawa was at projecting Watson's reelection.
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« Reply #312 on: October 27, 2014, 07:38:57 PM »

As I predicted, the two councillors I thought were in trouble (Clark and Hobbs) are losing Smiley
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« Reply #313 on: October 27, 2014, 07:40:28 PM »

In lovely news, Jody Mitic is running away with the lead in Innes Ward - 37.1% vs. 16.3% for Trépanier and 15.8% for Pedostache dude. Smiley
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« Reply #314 on: October 27, 2014, 07:46:51 PM »

Basically all the drone incumbents on Toronto council appear to be re-elected.
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« Reply #315 on: October 27, 2014, 07:53:41 PM »

In lovely news, Jody Mitic is running away with the lead in Innes Ward - 37.1% vs. 16.3% for Trépanier and 15.8% for Pedostache dude. Smiley

And now he's projected elected. Victory! Smiley
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« Reply #316 on: October 27, 2014, 07:56:10 PM »

Ugh. Bonnie Crombie.
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« Reply #317 on: October 27, 2014, 07:56:32 PM »

Ford just all but announced he's running in 2018.
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« Reply #318 on: October 27, 2014, 08:01:16 PM »

Ford just all but announced he's running in 2018.

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« Reply #319 on: October 27, 2014, 08:06:04 PM »

Ford just all but announced he's running in 2018.

Wait, which one?
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« Reply #320 on: October 27, 2014, 08:07:06 PM »

Rob.
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« Reply #321 on: October 27, 2014, 08:07:33 PM »

CBC showed a map of who was winning each ward. Quite bizarre. Chow is winning in 4 wards (Trinity-Spadina, south Davenport and Parkdale.

Ford winning in Etobicoke and the Western North York area and Scarborough. Tory ahead everywhere else.
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« Reply #322 on: October 27, 2014, 08:18:54 PM »

Turnout in Toronto at 64%. That's higher than federal elections.
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« Reply #323 on: October 27, 2014, 08:34:38 PM »

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« Reply #324 on: October 27, 2014, 08:42:06 PM »

I called my town of residence and Toronto right! Not hard calls, but it's good to see those I supported (at least as the lesser of two evils) succeed. And of course it's nice to see the PC candidate third once again.
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