Linda Blair

My assumption, based on his name alone, was that Braeden Chow was some sort of unholy Bradford/Chow Brundlefly.

For what it’s worth, Alexander entered the race at 10% and dipped into single digits from there. So it looks like Chow beat Bradford by a larger share of the vote than Alexander held at any point in the race.

Toronto’s voting record has been pretty hit and miss over the years, to say the least. So it’s nice when we collectively make good choices, and we made a lot of decisive ones tonight. That’s a good feeling.

It's good to be magnanimous in victory, but it does need to be acknowledged that this race wasn't even close. A massive win for Chow and an impressive show of support for her leadership. Her opponent ran as little more than "The Guy Who's Not Chow," and he got demolished.

From the start, the Chow campaign’s message was “We have a comfortable lead now, but don’t take it for granted, because anything can happen.” Going into Election Day, it was “We need every vote we can get.” They did some great work here. A truly decisive victory.

Whoa. Reporting just went from 33% to 86%, and Chow has a very comfortable lead.

projection.cityhallwatcher.com/results/

Looks like it’s time to keep refreshing a bunch of web pages that say “0 votes counted” over and over again.

I’ve got three different sites open now, which is ridiculous, because it’s not like one of them’s going to scoop the other two at this point.

Looks like we're going to do that thing where the guy you didn't vote for starts with the largest share of the small handful of earliest votes, and then you just hope that number drops far enough before the reporting number gets too high.

Braeden Chow currently appears to be in third place with less than one percent of the vote, suggesting that the “Vote for No. 9” push went well overall, but not perfectly.

Looks like we're going to do that thing where the guy you didn't vote for starts with the largest share of the small handful of earliest votes, and then you just hope that number drops far enough before the reporting number gets too high.

And so far, it's dropping. You've got to give it that. I've heard rumblings that the early advantage comes down to his strongholds being the first to report.

As my wife has pointed out, what Obama’s done here is ensure that Trump will publicly whine about the Cheesecake Factory dig for the next few weeks at least. He’ll certainly spend the final week before the midterms yelling about it.

I mean, you can’t help but feel a little consernated about this.

Voting is a very important part of the effort to build the city we want, but it's just one part of that effort. In essence, what we're waiting to find out is whether our city has chosen to make it easier or harder to do that work together. #topoli

I've never liked the part of Election Day where you have to sit around and wait to see what's happened. During anxious moments like these especially, I find it helps to focus on the bigger picture beyond the results, and that bigger picture is the work. #topoli

Voting is a very important part of the effort to build the city we want, but it's just one part of that effort. In essence, what we're waiting to find out is whether our city has chosen to make it easier or harder to do that work together. #topoli

Regardless of the outcome, the work is the work. One of the great things about an election cycle is that it focuses our attention, at least ideally, on the problems and the challenges that we have to face and overcome as a city. #topoli