Ward 5: The Candidates, Demographics and Mood of Voters

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Ward 5 The Candidates, Demographics and Mood of
Voters
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Ward 5 is made up mostly of suburban communities
in northeast Calgary.
It has an open race meaning there is no
incumbent city councillor running for
re-election. The previous representative for
Ward 5, Coun. George Chahal, had initially filed
papers to run again but then announced in July he
was dropping out of the race to run in the
federal election instead. Nearly 96,000 people
live in the ward, making it larger than average,
in terms of population. They live in fewer than
30,000 homes, giving Ward 5 the highest
population-to-residence ratio in the city, with
an average of 3.2 people per home.
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A majority of the homes (60 per cent) are
detached, single-family houses. It's also one of
the younger wards in the city, with a majority of
residents under the age of 35. Ward specific poll
results In partnership with the University of
Calgary, CBC News conducted a poll in July to
find out what Calgarians think about municipal
issues. The poll, conducted by Forum Research,
asked more than 2,200 people a series of detailed
questions on a wide range of topics. The sample
size was large enough to provide ward-by-ward
results but the results in Ward 5, in
particular, should be interpreted with extra
caution due to the small number of people in this
subsample.
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More details about the poll's methodology can be
found below
Respondents were asked to rank the importance of
several high-profile  and often controversial 
municipal issues addressed by city council in the
past year. The results shown below represent how
important people felt an issue was to them,
personally, not whether they agree or
disagree. Here's how people in Ward 5 responded.
(Click on an issue for a recent CBC News story on
that topic.)
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Ward 5 satisfaction with government
To gauge how people in Ward 5 are feeling about
the future of Calgary and their own futures in
the city, we also asked them to think about
whether they would still be living here in five
years' time. Residents were asked to rate the
likelihood that they'd still be living here on a
scale from 0 to 100 per cent. Here's how they
responded. How likely do you think it is that
you will be living in Calgary five years from
now?
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So that's a snapshot of how voters in Ward 5 are
feeling. 
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Next, here are the candidates vying to be the
next councillor to represent the ward. Click on a
candidate's name to visit their website or social
media page, where available. Ward 5 council
candidates Anand James Chetty Aryan Sadat Raj
Dhaliwal Stan Sandhu
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• Tahir Merali
• Tariq Khan
• Tudor Dinca
• The City of Calgary also conducts annual surveys
  of citizen satisfaction.
• Taken together over several years, these surveys
  offer a glimpse of how attitudes in each ward
  have changed over time.

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