Provincial and municipal elections have been in the same year since 2014 - causing vacancy headaches for municipal councils.
The Hamilton Centre NDP will now try to overcome the internal divisions of the past 18 months. It will fall to nearly elected MPP Dr. Robin Lennox to lead the efforts.
New candidates brought good ideas and good spirits to our suffering elections - I hope we'll see all of them return for the 2026 municipal election.
Doug Ford made a point of focusing his campaign stops at now-Conservative union halls and unionized workplaces: he wanted Windsor West but did get Hamilton Mountain.
Sarah Jama places a distant fourth place in Hamilton Centre, and Kojo Damptey places third in Hamilton Mountain.