2014's election results.
- Brian BOWMAN 111,504
- Judy WASYLYCIA-LEIS 58,440
- Robert-Falcon OUELLETTE 36,823
- Gord STEEVES 21,080
- David SANDERS 3,718
- Paula HAVIXBECK 2,083
- Michel FILLION 898
Now imagine if there was no JWL or RFO, and Bowman was the incumbent who hadn't done much to make people angry. That's what 2018 is going to look like.
Even if Gord Steeves' campaign didn't have the controversy it did, I don't think he would have come much closer. Winnipeg did not have an appetite for a fusion of angry Winnipeg Sun populism and intellectually bankrupt "Gang of 18" cronyism. It doesn't now, and Motkaluk's campaign is basically Gord Steeves', right up the smallest detail of having the same press secretary leave around this time of year.
What I'm a little surprised at is that there's apparently no NDP/public sector union candidate for mayor. This has to be the first time this has happened in... the past 100 years?