Schreyer's worst ever decision. Doesn't make sense for one municipality to have over half a province's population. And it may mean Winnipeg will never have a progressive mayor.
The only parallel in Tory vs Chow is that instead of the right wing coalescing around one candidate, it's centrists coalescing around one candidate, which doesn't happen as often.
Anyways, Winnipeg doesn't have any poll results yet, but Brandon does, so here is a map:
Chrest won every ward, but Decter Hirst won one poll and tied another. Her best ward was Rosser (Downtown Brandon), which was also her best in 2010. Still, Chrest won 50% of the vote there.
It's arguable weather or no Murray was a "progressive" mayor, but I believe he was a centrist New Democrat, and is now a more fitting Ontario Liberal. But he was the last centre-left mayor at least, Katz being centre-right. So they can win... just not sure how it happened, the Provincial NDP gov't being relatively unpopular did hurt JWL saddly
