Winnipeg – With three weeks remaining until Winnipeggers cast ballots in the municipal election, Judy Wasylycia-Leis is poised to become Winnipeg’s mayor, a new Winnipeg Free Press-CTV Winnipeg survey conducted by Probe Research Inc. shows.

Ms. Wasylycia-Leis, who has been the clear frontrunner in previous Probe Research Inc. surveys, currently has the support of more than four-in-ten decided voters (41%). First-time candidate Brian Bowman has pulled ahead of other challenges to establish himself in second place – but with 23 percent support, he continues to trail Ms. Wasylycia-Leis by a significant margin as the campaign draws to a close. Former St. Vital councillor Gord Steeves is now well back of these two front-runners with the backing of only 16 percent of the civic electorate.

The four remaining candidates are all in the single-digit range of support: Robert-Falcon Ouellette (9%), David Sanders (5%), Paula Havixbeck (4%) and Michel Fillion (2%).

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Winnipeg – In a crowded field of potential candidates for Winnipeg’s next mayor, a single left of center contender breaks away from the pack with a direct path to Winnipeg’s top political office.

A city-wide telephone survey of 605 adults taken earlier this month by Probe Research Inc. for the Winnipeg Free Press shows that Judy Wasylycia-Leis is the prospective front-runner on a hypothetical mayoral ballot that includes four other challengers from the centre-right of the political spectrum. The survey also shows that current Mayor Sam Katz would face a steep uphill climb in the event he chooses to seek re-election in next year’s civic vote.

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Winnipeg – Winnipeg voters could be in for one of the tightest races for the mayor’s chair in the city’s history as incumbent mayor Sam Katz and challenger Judy Wasylycia-Leis enter October statistically tied in support, a new Probe Research Inc. survey conducted exclusively for the Winnipeg Free Press reveals...

Probe Research asked 439 Winnipeg residents who said that they intend to vote in this fall’s mayoral election to specify which candidate they will support on October 27th. One-half (50%) of these intended voters reported that they would cast their ballots for former NDP MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis, while almost as many (47%) reported that they intended to vote for incumbent mayor Sam Katz. Lower profile candidates Brad Gross (2%) and Rav Gill (1%) trailed far behind.

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