Ward 5: The Candidates, Mood of Voters and Demographics

Ward 5 is made up mostly of suburban communities in northeast Calgary.

It has an open race — meaning there is no incumbentcity councillor running for re-election.

The previous representative for Ward 5, Coun. GeorgeChahal, had initially filed papers to run again but thenannounced in July he was dropping out of the race torun in the federal election instead. Nearly 96,000people live in the ward, making it larger than average, interms of population. They live in fewer than 30,000homes, giving Ward 5 the highest population-to-residence ratio in the city, with an average of 3.2 peopleper home.

A majority of the homes (60 per cent) are detached,single-family houses. It's also one of the younger wards inthe city, with a majority of residents under the age of 35.

Ward specific poll results

In partnership with the University of Calgary, CBC Newsconducted a poll in July to find out what Calgarians thinkabout municipal issues. The poll, conducted by ForumResearch, asked more than 2,200 people a series ofdetailed questions on a wide range of topics. The samplesize was large enough to provide ward-by-ward results —but the results in Ward 5, in particular, should beinterpreted with extra caution due to the small numberof people in this subsample.

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.)

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?

So that's a snapshot of how voters in Ward 5 are feeling.

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

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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