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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
But this is the problem with this city, if any mayor has any level of popularity then nobody credibly will run against that Mayor,they'll wait until the popular mayor decides to move along
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This isn't a Calgary specific thing, its more of a local politics thing and how most people don't really care about municipal politics. For instance Montreal has had only 5 different mayors since 1954, and Toronto has had only one more mayor (6) than Calgary since 1980. At the local level you have to be either really incompetent or really unpopular to not be mayor for a while. I mean I don't know anyone who likes Diane Colley-Urquhart yet here she is, 5 terms in.