Council Watch #15 – by Richard Johnson
The kids and I piled into the van for a Sunday drive in Aurora and what a drive it was ! The weather is incredible and we had a chance to drive into all corners of this great little town of ours.
The purpose of our outing was to count signs on the lawns of homeowners. We plan to do the same again in a few weeks in order to see if we can determine any trends.
This was a random survey of eight areas in town. Dawe won four areas, Morris won three areas and Kean won one area.
It should be noted that Kean won one area with only two signs while Phyllis won one another area with three signs. Phyllis won a second area because we drove by her home and there were six signs there. Given that we did not drive by the homes of the other candidates as far as we are aware, this should be noted in order to be fair.
If we assume that 12,500 people will cast a vote for Mayor (which is a safe estimate given the last election numbers) then we can extrapolate from the more than 100 signs counted that the following results would play out if the election was held today:
- Dawe 6,146 votes
- Morris 4,479 votes
- Kean 1,563 votes
- Clowater 313 votes
Have a nice day.
RJ
