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From the article: “A quick analysis suggests McHattie would capture the centre left vote, Ferguson would take the centre right, and Bratina could zigzag up the middle much as he did on the crowded field of 2010, when he won with 37 per cent of the vote.”

That is indeed a very quick analysis. I don’t think it always works this way municipally: a lot of voters I don’t think know municipal politicians’ party affiliations, and many municipal issues cut across the right-left continuum in different ways. But, it’s probably accurate enough to mean that McHattie doesn’t stand any kind of a chance at all. I don’t see him even capturing enough of the vote to be said to have influenced the race, but that’s just me…