[GT] Calgary Municipal Election 2021

[GGG]

So Council appears to have gone fairly progressive if you look at the PAC endorsements.

Calgary’s Future
Gondek
Sharp
Wyness
Mian
Dahliwal
Walcott
Carra
Brannigan
Spencer

So that’s 9 of 15 total and hopefully Kelly.

Compared with Lead Calgary of
Wong
Chu
Chabot
Demong
Maclean

Not sure where Pootmans ends up.

So if you want to see the affect of money in politics if you weren’t a previous councillor or endorsed by the two main PACs you didn’t win.

[Mathgod]

DJ would have to win the remaining vote by about a 1280 to 570 margin. Possible, but asking a lot...

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I didn’t see anything. The political folk I follow on twitter would have been all over that and from what I can tell it was crickets.

Yeah. I saw she silently ghosted him, but that was it.

[Jimmy Stang]

If Chu does win tonight, I am hopeful that his downfall is swift, thorough, and very public. That will be some consolation.

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by GGG

Her website has a statement dated the 15th.

https://mprempel.ca/news/f/statement...-rempel-garner

Nothing stops her from backdating the blog post on her site, you can put the date as whatever you want and because of the way her site is designed, you can't look at the HTTP headers to see when the page was last updated.

[RichieRich]

In case someone is looking for all voting results…
https://www.calgary.ca/election/resu...1-results.html

Interesting how close Fluoride was
Interesting how equalization wasn’t more polarized
DLS… most folks couldn’t wrap their heads around this one it was so poorly explained

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

In case someone is looking for all voting results…
https://www.calgary.ca/election/resu...1-results.html

Interesting how close Fluoride was
Interesting how equalization wasn’t more polarized
DLS… most folks couldn’t wrap their heads around this one it was so poorly explained

Fluoride was a walkover. It wasn’t remotely close.

I also don’t get people claiming the DST question was confusing. Even accounting for how dumb most albertans are, hats a pretty straightforward question.

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by GGG

So Council appears to have gone fairly progressive if you look at the PAC endorsements

It's definitely the more progressive of options, but I'm not sure it's a huge shift overall. It's progressive relative to how non-progressive it could have gone, anyway.

Mayor: wash

Ward 1: more progressive

Ward 2: a lot more progressive

Ward 3: wash

Ward 4: n/a

Ward 5: wash?

Ward 6: wash (maybe a bit less, but

Ward 7: less progressive

Ward 8: more progressive (and Woolley was pretty progressive)

Ward 9: n/a

Ward 10: negligible (Chabot isn't regressive, but Jones wasn't much of anything)

Ward 11: a little more (Branagan does replace an LGBTQ councilor, but one that would never let anything progressive get in the way of campaigning)

Ward 12: wash (maybe a bit more?)

Ward 13: less (and DCU wasn't all that progressive)

Ward 14: n/a (Demong might not drive anything progressive, but he's not regressive)

[PepsiFree]

DST was as clear as you could possible make the question. “Do you want THIS TIME which is SUMMER HOURS and to eliminate TIME CHANGES?”

If people were confused by that question, I’m sure the equalisation question was like an entirely different language.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Fluoride was a walkover. It wasn’t remotely close.

I also don’t get people claiming the DST question was confusing. Even accounting for how dumb most albertans are, hats a pretty straightforward question.

It was only confusing in how it was going to be implemented, if at all.

[bob-loblaw]

Looks like the election was run pretty smoothly. Hats off to Calgary Elections.

We’re any scrutineers allowed at the polls? I was in and out of there in less than 5 minutes, so if they were there, I obviously had no idea they were.

[Ozy_Flame]

So the new conservative front on Council is likely Wong/Chabot/Chu/McLean, if polls are correct.

Regarding Wong, I am not sure that was supposed to happen. Looks like he squeezed in between two vote-splitting progressive candidates in McCrae and Waite.

[Roughneck]

"I hate Daylight Savings, I'm voting to get rid of it"

"That's not an option. It's either adopt it permanently or keep changing clocks."

"Yeah that's what I hate, changing clocks, get rid of it."

"So are you voting yes or no."

"I'm voting to get rid of Daylight Savings Time."

"But the only options are to keep switching between Daylight Saving and Standard Time or always having Daylight Saving Time."

"I'm voting to get rid of Daylight Saving Time and stop changing clocks"

"but...."



I've had or overheard that sort of convo more times than I care to remember. I mean, it's 'only' like 3, but still. People can be pretty dumb.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by bob-loblaw

Looks like the election was run pretty smoothly. Hats off to Calgary Elections.

We’re any scrutineers allowed at the polls? I was in and out of there in less than 5 minutes, so if they were there, I obviously had no idea they were.

Scrutineers are more involved with the counting. Since this was basically Scantron machines, I would think they'd only be involved in the case of a hand count.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

DST was as clear as you could possible make the question. “Do you want THIS TIME which is SUMMER HOURS and to eliminate TIME CHANGES?”

If people were confused by that question, I’m sure the equalisation question was like an entirely different language.

I think it's possible some people had a hard time wrapping their heads around what was fall back/ spring forward and what that meant for the change in sunlight hours during the winter. Really not the fault of the question at all, just struggle with abstract thinking and not preparing yourself for the question.

I voted yes, because from I would rank the quality of options as

1) -7h always
2) -6h always
3) the 5 months on / 7 months off we hand before
4) the current system where we are stuck changing time, but the changes are squished so close together it seems meaningless.

on the ballot were my second and third favorite choices, so I took the second.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

I'm honestly surprised how close it is, I figured people would want to get rid of the clock change by a comfy margin.

So do we know what's up with Chu yet?

[Wormius]

Indeed, what’s with the last two polling stations in Ward 4?

[SebC]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Regarding Wong, I am not sure that was supposed to happen. Looks like he squeezed in between two vote-splitting progressive candidates in McCrae and Waite.

North Peigan is also progressive, and not that far behind. This is a great case study of first-past-the-post being garbage.

[TheScorpion]

Absolutely thrilled that Courtney Walcott won in Ward 8. He taught at my high school, I consider him a very honourable man. City council will be better because of his presence.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

I'm honestly surprised how close it is, I figured people would want to get rid of the clock change by a comfy margin.

So do we know what's up with Chu yet?

Well if there's any 16 year olds around we know Chu will be up