Friday, 24 October 2014

Ward 7 Bay

Mark Taylor 70%
Alex Cullen 30%

Mark Taylor won the last election with 37% of the vote in comparison to Cullen’s 30%.  The race in the last election was more chaotic, with Terry Kilrea and Shawn Little also receiving 8% and 6% of the vote respectively.  Given that most of the Kilrea and Little voters will gravitate towards Taylor rather than Cullen, and the significant incumbency advantage, I expect that Taylor will win in this election as well.  On the other hand, in the last election, voters may have been angry at Cullen for his last-minute decision to run for the ward as a “consolation prize” instead of the mayoralty.  That would no longer be true this year.

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