{"id":951345,"date":"2026-10-30T02:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951345\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:10:10","slug":"how-an-unknown-candidate-came-3rd-in-torontos-mayoral-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951345\/","title":{"rendered":"How an unknown candidate came 3rd in Toronto&#8217;s mayoral race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 hours ago<a class=\"video-base-category-link\" aria-label=\"Content area News\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/player\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Duration 2:59closed caption<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">The 2026 municipal election had two candidates on the ballot with the last name Chow: Braeden Chow and now re-elected Mayor Olivia Chow \u2014 leading a relatively unknown candidate to rack up just over 8,000 votes. As CBC\u2019s Mercedes Gaztambide explains, it raises questions around whether there was confusion at the polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 hours agoNewsDuration 2:59closed caption The 2026 municipal election had two candidates on the ballot with the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-951345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951345","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=951345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}