While Olivia Chow continues to enjoy a significant lead in recent polls for the Toronto mayorship, it appears the former NDP MP may have a new challenger.
A recent poll from Mainstreet Research has found that Chow still leads the pack with 35% of voters planning to vote for her, up from 30% in last week’s Mainstreet poll.
It appears the race for Chow’s top challenger has been heating up, as Anthony Furey, who is currently on leave as True North’s VP of content and editorial, has been gaining in the polls with 9% support, up from 7% in last week’s polls.
Meanwhile, Mark Saunders is currently polling at 12%, up by 2 points compared to last week and Ana Bailao is polling at 16%, down five points from last week’s poll.
Progressive candidate from Toronto – St. Paul’s Josh Matlow has seen his support slip four points from last week’s Mainstreet poll, as he now sits at 10% support.
Beaches – East York councillor Brad Bradford is polling at 6%.
Furey has been excluded from a few of the campaign’s main debate stages, as recently the Toronto Board of Trade and Ontario’s public broadcaster TVO hosted a Toronto mayoral debate without extending an invite to the former journalist.
Despite Bradford polling lower than Furey, the councillor has been included in all major debates while Furey was excluded from these same debates.
Toronto voters will elect a new mayor on June 26, with advance polls opening June 8-13.
Mainstreet Research conducted their survey of 838 Toronto voters by phone over the May 24-25 period. The poll has a margin of error of ±3.4%, 19 times out of 20.
