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The strangest election returns come from District 17— Armdale-Purcells Cove. For council, 73.83% of voters went for incumbent Linda Mosher. But for mayor, 51.17% of the same voters went for Sheila Fougere. I’m not saying anything one way or the other about either Mosher or Fougere, but the two were on completely opposite sides of […]

On a 9-9 tie vote, the Halifax council defeated the controversial Waterside development proposed for the heart of the downtown Halifax historic district. Tie votes are considered a “no” vote. If approved, the development would have seen the razing of five buildings on a block bound by Upper Water, Hollis and Duke Streets and by […]

A press release: The Halifax Chamber of Commerce is calling on the provincial government to bring an end to gas regulation when the house resumes later this month. Gas regulation in Nova Scotia has been in effect since July 1, 2007. Promises of stable gasoline prices and increased opportunities for independent gasoline retailers to make […]

As I discussed before, it was a brilliant procdure move on the part of the Armour Group to get the vote on the controversial Waterside development postponed until after the election. It was unclear at the time exactly when the vote would happen, but by holding it today developer Ben McCrea and city staff don’t […]

The HRM Election office placed polling places in 25 retirement homes, assisted living complexes and nursing homes. Collectively they had the following results: Boyd- 41 (2.9%)Fougere- 289 (20.6%)Kelly- 1,076 (76.5%) Now, I’m all for placing polling places in retirement homes, even if in some cases there is a miniscule return on the resources spent— some […]

Weirdest result of the election: David Boyd actually won the internet portion of the District 11 vote. He brought in 552 votes, to Shelia Fougere’s 547 and Peter Kelly’s 18. Only 52 other people voted for Boyd at the conventional polling places, bringing his total to 604. But even that is wildly out of proportion […]

A district-by-district breakdown of the mayoral race shows that Sheila Fougere won the four districts on the Halifax peninsula (11, 12, 13 and 14) as well as two districts that were once in the old city of Halifax (16 and 17), although she lost two others that were in the old city– Clayton Park West […]

I’m now going through the final election results by district. This will likely take most of the evening, so check back, but I was most curious to see how internet voting affected the closest local race– the council race for District 12, downtown Halifax. Here are the numbers: Internet votingDowney- 116 (12.7%)Ells- 24 (2.6%)Sloane- 360 […]

The elections office hasn’t yet released final figures, but it appears that voter turnout in the municipal election is way down. In the race for mayor 100,708 people, or about 38 percent of registered voters, have cast votes this year (there is still a single unreporting table out of 570), compared to 125,035, or about […]

Well, there’s still one box out, but with 21 of 22 tables reporting, Sloane has 1,083 votes to Stuewe’s 980.

10:19pm. District 12 is by far the most exciting race of the night. Dawn Sloane just went up by about 100 votes, but only 12 of 22 tables have reported.

All but three council incumbents have won. Patrick Murphy has lost his seat to Jerry Blumenthal.Krista Snow has lost to Barry Dalrymple. It’s still to close to call between Dawn Sloane and James Stuewe.