The Canada Brief

Canada · 14 d ago

Toronto City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square

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Chow and Bradford run neck and neck days before Toronto votes

Oct

26

Monday

Toronto

Toronto elects its mayor on Oct 26. Advance voting drew nearly double the roughly 130,000 votes cast early in 2023.

Mainstreet Research

Bradford 48.9, Chow 47.5

Pollara

Chow 53, Bradford 46

Polls disagree: Mainstreet Research puts councillor Brad Bradford at 48.9 per cent to Mayor Olivia Chow's 47.5 among decided voters, while Pollara has Chow ahead 53 to 46.

Undecided voters

13.4 %

In the Mainstreet poll, 13.4 per cent of voters remain undecided, enough to swing the race. Its president says the result will come down to turnout.

Chow

Task force on bad landlords

Bradford

Zero TTC slow zones

Chow promises a task force to go after landlords who ignore basic maintenance. Bradford promises to bring TTC slow zones down to zero.

Top issues for voters

  1. 1 Affordability: 38.3%
  2. 2 Traffic and transit: 22.4%
  3. 3 Crime and safety: 16.4%

Voters rank affordability and the cost of living as the top issue, ahead of traffic and transit, then crime and safety.