[GDT] YYC Votes 2025

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Claiming that Theissen cost Gondek the election instead of her losing the incumbency on her own merits is indeed weird to me as an excuse for her loss, but that surely won't stop you from doing the thinly concealed holier than thou virtue grandstanding attack you are so cherished on this forum for

Note I didn't bash or question someone voting for Gondek as there are reasons to do so even for people who viewed her tenure as mediocre, I questioned the excusing given on why she lost. Clearly a difference, but you were clearly too busy setting up your...a bit cringy and embarrassing post to notice.

I would say the biggest reason a lot of the incumbents were pushed out was because peoples' property taxes went up






even if that was due to UCP provincial tax policy while municipal taxes did not iirc

[SeeGeeWhy]

Originally Posted by Mathgod

Whether the winner is Farkas or Sharp, it seems counterintuitive that less than 100k people get to decide who the mayor is for a city of 1.6M.

Maybe I'm out to lunch on this, but it seems like the winner will have way more total votes against them than for them. Something about that doesn't quite sit right with me.

One of the many joys of democracy.

For the anecdotes - I lined up at 4pm at Strathcona Community Association, got out just after 5:46. But there was a very cute and giggly baby in the line in front of me which made the time pass by very easily. Process at the table was short... <5 mins.

Congrats to all the winners, please spit on it before you put it in. kthxbye.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

I would say the biggest reason a lot of the incumbents were pushed out was because peoples' property taxes went up






even if that was due to UCP provincial tax policy while municipal taxes did not iirc

I think it was less so property tax and more about blanket re-zoning. Many voters want to see a change in re-zoning at a minimum if not a full repeal of it.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

I think "unlikely" is underselling it. Absent actual deliberate fraud of some sort you might get, what, a few dozen miscounted ballots? If that?

The spread represents .15% of votes cast.

In Tera Nova the outcome changed by 24 votes from +12 to -12 which is .05%
Tecumsuh-Lakeshore changed by 73 votes or .1% of total ballots cast
Terrabonne moved by 44 votes .075%

So it’s unlikely but certainly possible without fraud.

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/han...8/vtp_wp11.pdf

Here’s an older paper post Bush/Gore that suggested that races within .5% have a non trivial likelihood of changing outcomes

[Torture]

Ward 12 is CLOSE. Ferguson with an ever so slight edge and riding that conservative vote split.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ults-9.6942829

[Burninator]

Looks like we'll get an update for the councillor vote around 3.

The next ballot count update will be approximately 3 p.m. or at the conclusion of the councillor ballot count.

https://newsroom.calgary.ca/2025-gen...ballots-count/

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

There were rumors his recall petition was backed by a wild rose contingent based on IP address tracing or something. Ie - he is political

#Recalllandonjohnston

Guy is about to be handed a dose of reality being a councillor.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy

One of the many joys of democracy.

For the anecdotes - I lined up at 4pm at Strathcona Community Association, got out just after 5:46. But there was a very cute and giggly baby in the line in front of me which made the time pass by very easily. Process at the table was short... <5 mins.

Congrats to all the winners, please spit on it before you put it in. kthxbye.

That's not short, that is exceptionally long, compared to how long it should take.
Your time at the table should be like 30 seconds tops.
The fact that it's taking 3-5 minutes for someone to write down information on a form, that is already on the voter role, is so wasteful from both a time and money perspective.
That 5 minutes at the table is the reason it took most people >1 hr to vote.

I really hope anyone who complains about this remembers it in the next provincial election. Because the UCP put in a useless wasteful policy for the purpose of making voting in cities harder and less desirable.

[powderjunkie]

Assuming Nowak wins I see 6 unknown but probably progressives, plus Dhaliwal (generally seemed to vote progressively, but often not?)

Then there's 6 fairly obvious conservatives (including Wyness who seemed like the inverse of Dhaliwal, but I'm happy to be corrected on either point).

And then ward 12 which could go either way...but either way it looks likely we'll see a lot of 8-6 and 7-7 votes among the councillors, so Jeromy's vote is going to be pretty pivotal.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by SeeGeeWhy

One of the many joys of democracy.

For the anecdotes - I lined up at 4pm at Strathcona Community Association, got out just after 5:46. But there was a very cute and giggly baby in the line in front of me which made the time pass by very easily. Process at the table was short... <5 mins.

Congrats to all the winners, please spit on it before you put it in. kthxbye.

I do not get the reference?

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by fotze2

I do not get the reference?

Yes you do.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by fotze2

I do not get the reference?

They feel that the new city Council and Mayor will be ####ing them in the ass over the next four years.

[getbak]

Are we going to call him Mayoromy?

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Yes you do.

The sexual part obviously but not what the meaning is here.

[Looch City]

I find it absolutely hilarious that that "Recall Gondek" guy is actually going to be elected into Council now. Lol some 4d chess moves, I'll give him that maybe.

He'll probably just be a useless twat though.

[Ironhorse]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

That's not short, that is exceptionally long, compared to how long it should take.
Your time at the table should be like 30 seconds tops.
The fact that it's taking 3-5 minutes for someone to write down information on a form, that is already on the voter role, is so wasteful from both a time and money perspective.
That 5 minutes at the table is the reason it took most people >1 hr to vote.

Unless one was voting for a school trustee, there was no form to fill out. I filled my form out in a few minutes while waiting in line; a lot of people around me declined voting for trustee and didn't have to do the form at all. I did spend 4+ minutes sitting at the table waiting for the millennial poll worker to painstakingly look up my name in a book with a ruler & pencil, slowly removing and folding each of my three ballots and initialing them. That's where the bottleneck really was for me. The "form" was a nothing burger.

[sketchyt]

Originally Posted by btimbit

How is Landon Johnston winning? I thought he just ran as a joke

I live in the ward and as far as I can tell, the only candidate who did any door knocking. Boomers love that stuff.
Just any level of critical thought would tell you he's a complete idiot, but here we are.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

That's not short, that is exceptionally long, compared to how long it should take.
Your time at the table should be like 30 seconds tops.
The fact that it's taking 3-5 minutes for someone to write down information on a form, that is already on the voter role, is so wasteful from both a time and money perspective.
That 5 minutes at the table is the reason it took most people >1 hr to vote.

I really hope anyone who complains about this remembers it in the next provincial election. Because the UCP put in a useless wasteful policy for the purpose of making voting in cities harder and less desirable.

This just makes zero sense. They have the information. It's been verified to be correct. Now you've made someone write it all down again, potentially introducing errors, so someone else can take the paper form later, look up your info that is already confirmed correct, and see if they spot a difference? WTF are they even doing?


If you come up with such a massive waste of everyone's time and money, you should immediately be fired. I don't care who did it. Everyone involved top to bottom who had approval powers for this stupid process, fire them all. #### me.

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

Unless one was voting for a school trustee, there was no form to fill out. I filled my form out in a few minutes while waiting in line; a lot of people around me declined voting for trustee and didn't have to do the form at all. I did spend 4+ minutes sitting at the table waiting for the millennial poll worker to painstakingly look up my name in a book with a ruler & pencil, slowly removing and folding each of my three ballots and initialing them. That's where the bottleneck really was for me. The "form" was a nothing burger.

That was essentially my experience as well except that I had a geriatric poll worker and the poor guy didn't have the dexterity to get the ruler off the table. He struggled for almost a minute trying to pick it up in order to cross off my name. There was no hustle at any of the registration tables but I can't really fault those workers because I was there at 7:30 and if they had been working all day I can understand the exhaustion and slower pace.

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

Unless one was voting for a school trustee, there was no form to fill out. I filled my form out in a few minutes while waiting in line; a lot of people around me declined voting for trustee and didn't have to do the form at all. I did spend 4+ minutes sitting at the table waiting for the millennial poll worker to painstakingly look up my name in a book with a ruler & pencil, slowly removing and folding each of my three ballots and initialing them. That's where the bottleneck really was for me. The "form" was a nothing burger.

They filled out the form at the table at my polling station where you collected your ballots. And it was filled out prior to asking what I wanted to vote on (mayor, councilor, and school trustees). Happened to each voter as they went through the process.

45 minutes for me in total. By the time I left the lineup extended outside and there were people turning around and leaving when told how long the wait was. (over an hour at that point).