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Originally Posted by Cube Inmate
He won an outright majority with this as an election issue.
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That's a fact, but only 1/2 the story.
4 years ago he won a majority with 193,000 votes out of the 250,000 people who voted (around 74% of the popular vote).
This time he won a majority with 199,000 votes out of the 385,000 people who votes (around 51% of the popular vote).
So yes, he won a majority, but just barely.
Someone other than Nenshi could consider that almost as many people voted against him as for him... one could even say that more people came out to vote AGAINST him as his vote count almost didn't change from last time, even though voter turnout was up by almost 50%. Someone other than he could maybe think about those things and be a little more conciliatory...
Good or bad, Nenshi just doesn't have that in his personality.