Many of the campaign volunteers came to our home on election night to watch the results on TV and Internet. We thought the results would come in quickly with the new system, but it actually went very slowly. First, the results from the advance polls were released and it showed me in 4th place (the top 2 are elected in each ward). Everyone was quite positive, but I did advise that the this polling was done quite early: before the ward 5 debate on Rogers, before we started our 2nd leaflet, before we had canvassed the 3 polls in Eagle Place, before our newspaper ads had started, and before the coverage about my stand on Mohawk College had been covered in the 2 newspapers. In the last 10 days before voting day we had noted more and more positive responses at the doors. I urged everyone to be patient.
Finally the poll results from election day itself started to come in, and I had moved into 2nd place. It took what seemed a very long time, but when the 9th and final poll was announced, the total showed me in 2nd place, and as a winner by just over 100 votes. After some cheering and a quick toast, we headed off to the TV studio to make some comments on the program.
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