Politics

Thompson holds Ward 37 Scarborough Centre with 80% of vote

By Irene Ogrodnik Global News

Posted October 27, 2014 9:42 pm

Updated October 27, 2014 9:45 pm

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Toronto City Councillor Michael Thompson answers questions from the media at City Hall in Toronto on November 04, 2013.

TORONTO – Michael Thompson was reelected easily in Ward 37, Scarborough Centre picking up 80 per cent of the vote.

First elected to council in 2003, Thompson won the 2010 election with a whopping 83 per cent majority and and 15,129 votes. Currently, he is among Scarborough-area city councillors campaigning to replace the Scarborough RT with a tunnelled extension of the Bloor-Danforth subway.