Toronto officially opened mayoral candidate nominations on April 3, and the crowded race is underway.
“It’s a most interesting race because it’s quite open, and that’s very unusual,” Nelson Wiseman, political science professor at the University of Toronto, told The Epoch Times. The 77-year-old has lived in Toronto a long time and “it’s not in my lifetime that I remember” an election that’s so open, he said.
Incumbents usually take a large portion of the votes, but without an incumbent in this race it’s a more level playing field.
“The vote will be very fragmented. You could have four or five people who are each getting around 20 percent of the vote,” Wiseman said. Someone could end up winning with only 25 percent of the vote….