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Wouldn't Kensington-Chinatown be more comparable to the Lower East Side? Of course Manhattan is very different from Toronto. I do think there's a "Toronto vibe" in Queens: largely built up around the same time, more geared toward big apartments and SFHs, fairly similar ethnic composition.

Kevin Vuong has come out of hiding:

Popular vote, City of Toronto: Liberals 578,902 52.1% Conservatives 263,237 23.7% NDP 204,529 18.4% PPC 38,153 3.4% Greens 23,254 2.1%

The Liberal vote in Spadina-Fort York dropped from 34,000 for Vaughan to 19,000 and the NDP grew from 12,000 to 16,500. Even with the leakage Vuong still squeaked through, demonstrating the strength of the Liberal brand in Toronto.

The NDP did well in Davenport and Parkdale-High Park and are surely good targets for next time. The west end is clearly the most left-wing part of the city. Spadina-Fort York also saw a big shift to the NDP (exceptional circumstances). Danforth is also no longer "special" for the NDP. The...

24.5 Liberals?

Remarkably the answer to this question has not been determined. 300 votes separating the Liberals and NDP in Davenport with just the mail-in ballots left.

Abacus poll (City of Toronto): Liberals 47% Conservatives 24% NDP 23% https://abacusdata.ca/election-2021-week-3-liberals-conservatives-tied/

Abacus poll (City of Toronto): Liberals 47% Conservatives 24% NDP 23% https://abacusdata.ca/election-2021-week-3-liberals-conservatives-tied/

I'm skeptical that she'll come second though. Toronto Centre isn't a particularly "crunchy" riding and in a general election people vote more for the national horse race than local candidate. Plus her credibility has diminished significantly from then. The 8,000 raw votes in the by-election...

It's an open question whether Annamie Paul comes in second, third or fourth.

Yeah, the Conservatives are a nonfactor in downtown Toronto and for Spadina-Fort York to go NDP it would probably take the NDP pullling ahead of the Liberals nationally.

These seem questionable. The NDP only 2 points ahead of the Conservatives in PHP?

Alejandra Bravo is a very good candidate for the NDP. She speaks Portuguese as well as her native Spanish. She has performed well in the more Liberal, ethnic northern part of the riding in the past.

I heard nothing of this.