With just six days to go until the election, it appears Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell has not been able to make a comeback in the mayoral race, according to a new poll.
Fennell, who received just 11 per cent support in a new Mainstreet Technologies poll released Tuesday, actually dropped two points from the last poll released in early October.
The race between the two frontrunners, however, appears to have tightened.
The poll, which surveyed 1,602 Brampton residents on Oct. 20, found that while Linda Jeffrey is still leading the pack with 34 per cent, John Sanderson has made some big gains. Sanderson, with 27 per cent support, is up seven percentage points from the last Mainstreet poll.
About 19 per cent of respondents said they were undecided. Five per cent said they would vote for Baljit More and another five per cent said they would vote for “someone else.”
Mainstreet Technologies President Quito Maggi said, in a written statement, that Fennell is continuing to lose ground and that re-election “is out of reach.”
"Susan Fennell is just not in contention, this race is clearly between Jeffrey and Sanderson,” he said. “With just six days left to go and 19 (per cent) of voters undecided, where those undecided voters go - if they show up, will decide the election."
Fennell came under fire earlier this year when a forensic audit revealed she and her staff broke hundreds of spending rules over a seven-year period.
The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.44 per cent, 19 times out of 20.
