01712nam a22001577a 4500 528534 528534 241211b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d McGregor, M. Lucas, J. Erl, C. and Anderson, C.D. 61338 Understanding support for municipal political parties: Evidence from Canada Urban Affairs Review 60(5), Sep, 2024: p.1382-1410 The province of Ontario, Canada, has a longstanding history of non-partisanship in municipal elections. In this distinctive context, we report results on citizen attitudes toward municipal partisanship using a survey of eligible voters in Canada's most populous province. Using a mixed-methods approach, we focus on three interrelated research questions. First, how much does citizen support for municipal parties depend on the type of party under consideration? Second, what reasons do citizens provide for their preference for either municipal political parties or independents? Finally, what are the correlates of support for municipal parties? We find little support for municipal political parties, and that many voters have sophisticated reasons for preferring either independents or parties. We also identify several factors associated with support for parties. These results provide an in-depth picture of attitudes on municipal partisanship in Ontario, and suggest that public opinion may provide an overlooked mechanism that maintains Ontario's non-partisanship.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231224707 Municipal election, Political parties, Public opinion, Canada. 49448 Urban Affairs Review URBAN DEVELOPMENT AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 403627 IIPA IIPA 2024-12-11 60(5), Sep, 2024: p.1382-1410 AR133927 2024-12-11 AR