Rothenburger nails civic election predictions

Well, OK, not quite. But here’s the thing. When I submitted my predictions to the office pool, I wrote down actual vote counts for the mayoral election. Here’s what I forecast:

Peter Milobar, 13,100

Murphy Kennedy, 3,246

Brian Alexander, 621

And here’s what they received:

Peter Milobar, 13,147.

Murphy Kennedy, 3,667.

Brian Alexader, 921.

Unfortunately, it does me no good, since vote counts weren’t part of the contest.

As for councillors, I was wrong in predicting Arjun Singh would be re-elected, and that Ken McClelland would make it in. And I had Marg Spina and Nancy Bepple just out of the running, though I was right with Denis Walsh. And, Peter Sharp missed by a whisker, again, though I placed him lower down.

What have I learned? Not a thing. Despite a low-key campaign, and a crummy turnout, Saturday night was exciting. And the election-night parties were buzzing all over town.

Thanks to all the candidates who were hard at it today removing signs. On my way in from Westsyde mid-afternoon, only Spina, McClelland, Bepple and Hanson were sluggish in getting them down — probably busy in other parts of the city.