Toronto Mayoral By Election

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I see that Olivia Chow has been leading the polls since the beginning. Why is that? What is her platform?

Thanks in advance!

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Primarily name recognition, and then inertia from that point forward. And her opposition is divided, while she is the only candidate with NDP connections running, which gives her a solid base of support.

As for her platform, I'm sure you can Google that if you're truly curious.

Do you support her candidacy?

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I completely forgot about this election. I'm surprised that this election turned out to be closer than many polls predicted.

Anyway, one of the things I don't like about Canadian elections is that a candidate can win with significantly less than 50% of the vote (and this is fairly common). I'm sorry, but "winning" an election with only 30–40% of the vote is ridiculous to me. There should be a runoff between Chow and Bailao, or at the very least, RCV (ranked choice voting) should be implemented for future elections.

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I just went to Toronto for the first time today. I’m surprised there were no major Indian candidates. I thought toronto was diverse but it basically might as well be New Delhi. Based on seeing people on the street you would think the city was 75% Indian, 10% East Asian, 10% black and a few homeless white people. I mean no disrespect at all I was just very shocked by the demographics of this city.

We walked around Yonge Street in the downtown area.

Sorry to bump but what? I went to Toronto last year and it was nothing like you described.

It's a diverse city, of course, but 75% Indian? No way, lol. I spent a lot of time in the downtown Toronto area and I saw tons of White people. Asians were the second most common (East/Southeast Asian and South Asian). Then, some Black people. Then, other groups of people. One thing that I did notice is that Toronto (and Canada as a whole) barely had any Latinos (especially compared to NYC).