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Adriane Carr hadn’t yet poured her morning coffee on Friday when the radio in her kitchen announced, around 6 a.m., that a right-wing populist had been elected to lead a majority government in Canada’s most populous province.

By that time, Carr, Vancouver’s only Green councillor, had already made her decision about whether or not to run for Vancouver’s top job. But the news of the Doug Ford Conservatives’ victory in Ontario, she said, re-affirmed her decision.

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Ford’s win, Carr said, was “a really good example” of vote-splitting on the left leading to a big electoral victory for a right-wing candidate.

“That’s exactly what I don’t want to see happen in the October election,” Carr said in an interview on Friday. “In a crowded field of mayoral candidates, you could end up with somebody squeaking through who really doesn’t really represent (Vancouver).”

Carr has spent months mulling whether to seek a third term on council or to run for mayor. She planned to announce her decision to Green party members at a meeting Friday evening: 2018 will not be the year Vancouver elects its first Green mayor.