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The honeymoon is most certainly over.

Just over six years after he was first elected in a come-from-behind win, Mayor Naheed Nenshi’s approval rating sits at 57 per cent, according to a new Mainstreet/Postmedia poll.

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That’s a big drop from the years following Nenshi’s surprise mayoral victory in 2010, when more than 80 per cent of Calgarians said they liked the job the mayor was doing.

One year into his Purple Reign, one poll ranked Nenshi as the country’s most popular politician with an 86 per cent approval rating.

The nearly 30-point drop to 57 per cent remains the lowest rating since Nenshi took office and is unchanged since the last time Mainstreet polled citizens about the mayor in June 2015.

But it’s an approval rating pollster Quito Maggi insists is still solid for any politician.

“It’s still a very, very strong number,” said the president of Mainstreet Research.

“Being up in the stratosphere of 70s and 80s approval is (seen) during a honeymoon period … The honeymoon can last a whole term, and in Mayor Nenshi’s case well into his second term.”