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Oct 22, 2021 · Calgary's mayor-elect, Jyoti Gondek, won the most votes in all 14 of the city's electoral wards, according to official results of the municipal election released Friday afternoon. The final...
The results showed Gondek with a solid lead in the mayoral race as soon as the first polls started reporting. With results in from all tabulators, she has about 45 per cent of the vote, and a...
- Brodie Thomas
Oct 9, 2021 · Calgary will soon see a new face in the mayor's chair — and as part of CBC Calgary's extensive municipal election coverage, we wanted to get to know the leading candidates in the...
- Name Recognition
- Important Issues
- Other Voting Pattern Alignments
- An Election in Unusual Times
With just over one week left before election day, the poll suggests name recognition is key in the mayoral campaign race. Name recognition is the most important currency in municipal politics. Candidates seeking office at the federal or provincial level get to run under a political party banner. And this political party affiliation provides a short...
When asked which issues are most important in determining their vote, Gondek voters are most likely to mention the COVID-19 pandemic (37 per cent), poverty and homelessness (36 per cent), and economic development (30 per cent). Farkas voters are most likely to say their most important issues are city spending and the city budget (60 per cent), prop...
Voters for Gondek, Farkas and Davison also align along with other patterns, including perspectives on outgoing mayor Naheed Nenshi, and how people self-identified on a left-right spectrum. You can see that in the table below: Most of Jyoti Gondek's support comes from voters who approve of the job Nenshi has done as mayor over the last four years (9...
Candidates in this 2021 mayoral race are campaigning in unusual times. Coverage of the municipal election has often been pre-empted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal election, and the ongoing turmoil within the UCP caucus. As well, rising COVID-19 case numbers prevented candidates from holding or attending large events or rallies that would hav...
Sep 27, 2021 · Just five councillors are running for re-election across Calgary's 14 wards. Three other councillors are vying to be the new mayor, after Naheed Nenshi decided not to run again.
The 2021 Calgary municipal election was the 103rd municipal election in the City of Calgary's history and the first to elect a woman as its mayor. A number of incumbent councillors declined to contest the 2021 election including Druh Farrell (Ward 7), [2] Shane Keating (Ward 12), [3] Evan Woolley (Ward 8), [4] and Ward Sutherland (Ward 1). [5]
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View detailed election results including mayor by ward and wards by voting station in the Calgary Open Data Portal.
