{"id":668128,"date":"2026-05-14T03:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668128\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T03:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T03:59:09","slug":"real-estate-agent-umar-hayat-making-another-run-at-winnipeg-mayors-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/668128\/","title":{"rendered":"Real estate agent Umar Hayat making another run at Winnipeg mayor&#8217;s office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Real estate agent Umar Hayat is taking another crack at unseating an incumbent Winnipeg mayor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eight years after unsuccessfully challenging Brian Bowman, Hayat has registered to run for mayor. Scott Gillingham is seeking his second term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hayat finished sixth in the 2018 mayoral election, receiving 2,229 votes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He also ran for the provincial Liberals in 2023, finishing third in the McPhillips constituency with 886 votes. Jasdeep Devgan won that constituency for the NDP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Joining Hayat and Gillingham on the Oct. 28 mayoral ballot so far are funeral director Mike Vogiatzakis and grocery clerk Chris Clacio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The deadline to register for the municipal election is Sept. 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real estate agent Umar Hayat is taking another crack at unseating an incumbent Winnipeg mayor. Eight years after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[246426,49,48,246427,226082,246425,22073],"class_list":["post-668128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-brian-bowman","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-jasdeep-devgan","tag-scott-gillingham","tag-umar-hayat","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}