VANCOUVER —
After winning a nail, Kennedy Stewart will become the next mayor of Vancouver. Bit of the game.
It was already midnight before the final result came out, after Stewart's neck --and-neck with Non-
Party association candidate Ken Sim all night
Independent candidate Stewart ended at 28.
The vote is only ahead of the NPA's Sim 28.
Voting results were reported at all 133 polling sites.
Most of the night, two front lines
Runners exchanged clues and stayed within a percentage point or two.
Shauna Sylvester, another independent, ranked third with 20 points.
49 of the total number of votes.
The vote ended at 8 in the evening. m.
Saturday, but anyone in line at the time was allowed to vote.
Some polling stations lined up long lines and delayed counting votes.
After the top three of the deadline, Vancouver League's Wai Young followed by six.
55 points, yes, 5 points for Hector Bremner in Vancouver.
65 points, Fred Harding of Vancouver 1st with 3 points.
13 points and 2 points for David Chen of provououver.
A recent research firm
Polls for the mayoral campaign showed Stewart leading, with 36 voters supporting him.
The poll, released on Tuesday, showed Sim was second at 23 cents, followed by Sylvester, with an error range of 19 cents.
This week's polls show that supporters on all three fronts are on the rise --
Each of the next four mayoral candidates fell further behind: both Bremner and Young fell to 6 points, while both Harding and Chen fell to 2. Non-
Supporters of the party Association have squeezed into the ballroom of the coast coal port hotel from the evening, eating snacks while drinking cocktails and waiting for the results.
When the first figures of the evening put Kennedy Stewart and Ken sin within 60 votes, the members of the crowd excitedly surrounded around the projector screen, when their five members spoke to the original council, some applauded briskly.
However, as more polling stations reported their results, Sim fell behind due to the narrowing of the gap and the tone of the room began to change.
"It's too tight.
"Oh my God," one of the supporters said to anyone in particular. “Crazy.
The other said, "crazy.
Meanwhile, at Stewart's event at the Waldorf Astoria East Hastings, supporters cheered for early results showing their candidate's lead, and then as the later results showed Sim leading, they
When the last result came out around 12: 45m.
Stewart has yet to show up at his event.
Saturday also marks the end of the visual era in Vancouver, at least for now.
After enjoying a 10-year parliamentary majority, Vancouver's election prospects are fading this year.
Three out.
On January, visual mayor Greg Robertson announced that he would not seek a fourth term as mayor, and vision openly offered to support the idea of an independent candidate or another candidate instead of running for a mayoral candidate.
But, to the dismay of some of the left in the city --
The party tended to voters and candidates, eventually announcing that they planned to run for the mayoral candidate, and then, in June, the acclaimed Ian Campbell became their candidate.
But after months of campaigning, Campbell suddenly withdrew from the campaign in September.
Vision entered the week without a mayoral candidate and five parliamentary candidates, but that changed on Friday as the party announced that for undisclosed reasons they would withdraw from the Parliament
This leaves four vision committee candidates in the ballot, and none of them, including the current country, at the time of the deadline.
The Heather deal seems likely to win one of the 10 council seats.
As of the deadline, it seems that the city's 10 parliamentary seats will enter a mixed group, with 5 NPA candidates in the top 10, 3 green activists, and one in each of the city.
If this result is established, it will mean that if he wins, the NPA will get the sixth vote and get a majority vote in the Council.
In many ways, Vancouver's elections are different than before.
This year's municipal election is in B. C.
The national development plan has enacted new rules for campaign financing, banning donations from businesses and trade unions, and setting a strict contribution limit of $1,200 per donor.
These rules apply to the whole province, but there is no change as important as Vancouver, the largest city in the province, the two largest parties, Vision and NPA, millions of dollars were raised and spent in recent elections, mainly funded by wealthy individuals, real estate companies and unions.
In the 2014 elections alone, Vision raised $2.
$3 for 9 million.
4 million, a record of the city's most expensive campaign and biggest deficit.