Regional Results

Ballot counting is done by region which allows some more detailed analysis of results.

Here are the results:

Region 1
Thomas 60 (58.25%)
Pridham 43


Region 2
Thomas 75 (46.88%)
Pridham 85


Region 3
Thomas 116 (81.12%)
Pridham 27

Region 4
Thomas 134 (95.72%)
Pridham 6


Region 5
Thomas 94 (49.47%)
Pridham 96


Region 6
Thomas 89 (78.07%)
Pridham 25



Region 7
Thomas 53 (92.98%)
Pridham 4


Totals
Smokey Thomas 621 (68.47%)
Nancy Pridham 286


What does it mean?  Four years ago Thomas defeated Pridham by just over 100 votes.  That margin has now stretched to 335 votes.  Thomas took more than 2/3rds of the total.

Pridham's nominator was Gino Franche Vice-President of Region 1, but he was unable to deliver his region to her. There were few Smokey pins visible in Region 1 but the support was clearly there.  In Region 6, Board incumbents VP Sue Brown and Jen Giroux openly supported Pridham, but they too could not deliver to their choice. Newcomer Jeff Arbus supported Thomas.  Newly minted Region 3 VP Pete Wright and new EBM Gord Longhi were both in Pridham's camp, while other newcomer Sara Labelle was on Thomas' side.  Wright and Longhi could not convince their region to support Pridham.

Pridham only held her own Region, Region 5, by the slimmest of margins.  Pridham's campaign slogan was "OPSEU Can Do Better."  Clearly, at this convention OPSEU delegates overwhelmingly thought that OPSEU Would Do Better Without Nancy Pridham as President.