Ward 5 The Candidates, Demographics and Mood of Voters
                     Ward 5: The Candidates, Demogra
phics and Mood of Voters
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.
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.
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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