In a new survey that shows a tough race to become the next mayor of Calgary, he has some candidates who cause fears with accusations in connection between the survey and the first side of the communities.
A survey conducted by Thinkhq for public relations shows that Hieromi Farkas, leading with 20 percent, followed by the candidate of the first mayor of the Sonya Sharp community, is 17 %, the current candidate. Jyoti Gondek completes the top three by 16 percent, and Jeff Davison sits with the support of nine percent, and Brian Tissen from Kalgary – six percent.
According to the survey, twenty -seven percent of the Calgarians remain unresolved, remaining a little more than two weeks in the race.
“Until now, it was a sleepy campaign, and the numbers have not changed very much,” said Thinkhq President Mark Henry. “Basically, three mayor candidates are in a dispute.”
Nevertheless, some candidates for mayors of the Calgar are crying from a survey from a connection between Henry, the first batch of communities and the Sharp campaign.
Henry confirmed Global News that he first works as a volunteer in communities and helps some of his candidates in various abilities.
Documents of information disclosure published by the elections also show that Henry donated $ 5,000, an individual maximum, for the proposal of the mayor of Sharp in May. He also donated $ 1,000 for Sharp campaign in December.
“Despair often has a fragrance and this one smells,” said Davison Global News. “I think it's dirty, I think it's a lie, and I think this is initially, but let's look in the eyes of the truth, this is the first side of the communities.”
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Tissen, candidate for mayors of Calgary, said that the situation, according to the visible, is a conflict of interests that was supposed to be disclosed in the survey.
“I believe that the Calgarians deserve honesty with respect to how the campaigns are held,” he said. “If the voter works with the candidate, he must say so clearly, otherwise it does not deserve confidence, it misleads and damages democracy.”
Meanwhile, Gondek said that surveys are pictures of public mood in time and noted that sometimes there are connections between polls and parties.
“I think that a big thing that this survey shows is that people are not yet busy,” she said. “I can tell you that I am talking to the Kalgarians who are incredibly stressful from what they are going to do in the face of teachers' strikes.”
Campaign of Sharp and Farkas refused to comment.
According to Dwayne Brat, a political scientist from the University of Mount-Royal, Thinkhq is an authoritative electoral company that has been focused on municipal policy in Kalgary for years.
Nevertheless, Bratt asked if Henry’s connection with the campaign affected the results, and said that voters decide.
“The numbers are not so different from other polls that we have seen, but at first there are connections with communities,” Bratt said.
“What is slightly different from this survey, but is not too different is that he moves Sony Sharp into a much more competitive race.”
Henry, who worked as the chief of staff of the former mayor of Dave Bronkonnik, defends the survey and his volunteering in the campaign of the first community, calling criticism “inside baseball”.
“I spent more than ten years, creating a company, conducted a survey and creating a reputation. Of course, I am not going to expose this to a risk for some municipal campaign, ”Henry Global News said.
“I help some people who, I think, are good candidates, so I help in my personal life.”
The online survey was conducted by Thinkhq with 1200 voting aged 22 to September 29. He has an error of ± 2.8% (19 times out of 20)
Pre -voting for municipal elections in Kalgary in 2025 begins on Monday and will last until October 11.
Election Day October 20.
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