This isn’t a perfect calculation, but the best we can come up with, given the fact that they took away our polling station.. I know… I know…. shaddupaboutit..! Ok, so we compared the overall voting pattern with the polls at the Conference Centre and Georgia Ave School. The top 8 candidates for council [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Civic Election’
November 11, 2008
What is Plumping?
Does the thought of checking off 8 boxes for council candidates fill you with dread? Did you know that you don’t have to select all 8? Or that voting for less may actually be a good thing?
An interesting take on voting, snitched from Gord Fuller’s blog:
VOTING IN THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION
First-past-the-post system:
This is the system we [...]
October 27, 2008
NALT’s All Candidates Forum
Nanaimo & Area Land Trust is hosting two All Candidates Forums focussing on the topic of environmental sustainability in the Regional District of Nananimo.
The forum for candidates running in the City of Nanaimo’s 2008 Municipal Election will be taking place in the Ballroom of the Coast Bastion Hotel in Nanaimo. Wednesday, October 29th 2008 7:00 PM
The forum [...]
October 17, 2008
How this is going to work
I don’t know about you, but when I shop, I tend to compare things a lot: either I compare what I am looking at to what I really want, or I compare one item to another. Fairly simple processes, but hard to do when you are shopping for representation in an election. Especially an election [...]
October 12, 2008
Candidates for the 2008 Nanaimo Civic Election
See the Nominations here.
Candidates for the 2008 Nanaimo Civic Election
Mayor
• Brennan, Diane
• Iwaskow, Larry
• Korpan, Gary
• Ruttan, John
Councillor
• Arnold, Jack
• Bestwick, Bill
• Bolin, Ron
• Brunie, Brunie
• Campbell, Rob
• Cowling, Janet
• Forbes, Bill
• Fuller, Gord
• Greves, Ted
• Holdom, Bill
• Johnstone, Diana
[...]
October 9, 2008
More Candidates Are Filing To Run In Election
Three More in Race
The nomination period for all candidates interested in every form of local government ends Friday at 4 p.m.
So far, 11 people have taken out packages from city hall for the mayoral candidacy, but only two have filed. Thirty council packages have been taken out and 15 have filed so far.
These are the [...]
September 30, 2008
Too Many Candidates…Too Little Time…!
Also from the Nanaimo Daily News:
Nanaimo regularly has a long list of candidates seeking public office, which has its advantages and disadvantages…… Eight Nanaimo candidates ran for mayor in 2005 and 38 vied for eight council seats. Many lack political experience, or a realistic understanding of what the job entails. They can take hundreds of [...]
September 28, 2008
Press sees South End as Key Neighbourhood in Civic Election
The recent series in the Nanaimo Daily News offered this food for thought on the upcoming Civic Election on November 15:
Nanaimo’s south-end community has seen the impact of its local government this past year: an increased police presence to control the illegal drug activity, funding to rejuvenate Deverill Square Park, and councillors defending residents who [...]
September 24, 2008
Welcome to the South End Votes weblog!
We’re hoping this can be a place Nanaimo residents can come to get informed on the upcoming civic election taking place November 15th 2008. We’d like to offer a place for residents to ask questions, make comments and offer suggestions to the various running candidates. You’ll be able to do this in the comment section [...]
