City of Victoria 2010 By-Election and Bridge Referendum Results

• Marianne Alto   4529
• Barry Hobbis    3220
• Steve Filipovic 2280
• Rose Henry      1799
• Sue Woods       1361
• Paul Brown      1065
• Saul Andersen    331
• Hugh Kruzel      330
• George Sirk      299
• Pedro Mora       116
• Rimas Tumasonis   59

TOTAL - 15389

• Yes  10020
• No    6522

TOTAL - 16542

There were 1153 people that voted in the referendum but did not vote for a council candidate, that is 7% of the votes cast in the referendum.

Marianne Alto has a very clear win.  Even if one were to combine Barry Hobbis and Susan Woods' votes, it would still barely beat Mariane Alto.   Even though she did not break through 30% of the vote, she had a large margin of victory and it can not be put down to vote splitting.

If one looks at the votes from a left/right perspective, the left (Alto, Filipovic, Henry, Andersen and Sirk) polled 9238 versus the right (Hobbis, Woods, Brown and Kruzel) at 5976.   This is 60% left and 40% right, almost exactly the same split as the referendum.

The election of Marianne Alto means that Victoria city council is down to one person elected to council as a Green.   I have no idea if Phillipe Lucas will run as a Green in 2011 or not, but he and Sonya Chandler were elected as Greens to city council though are at odds with their own political party at the moment.