Mississauga residents continue to love Hazel McCallion — but when it comes to deciding who should replace their long-time mayor, two candidates are tied for top spot.

Steve Mahoney, a former member of both provincial and federal parliaments, would garner 27 per cent of the vote and Councillor Bonnie Crombie 25, says the latest poll from Forum Research Inc., taken April 10.

Remaining voters were undecided.

The previous Forum poll, in March, pegged Mahoney’s support at 29 per cent and Crombie’s at 22.

“This race has settled in since the last time we polled it, and both leading candidates are pretty evenly matched,” said Lorne Bozinoff, Forum’s president, in a written release. “They’re both running active campaigns, so we may expect to see one of them try something surprising to break out of the tie.”

A whopping 85 per cent of Mississauga residents “approve of the job Hazel McCallion is doing as mayor, and this is consistent with past findings,” says the poll.

The 93-year-old McCallion has been Mississauga’s mayor for 36 years and decided not to run again.

Mahoney is president and CEO of the Radiation Safety Institute of Canada.

Crombie, a former one-term MP for Mississauga, joined city council in 2011.

The Forum poll was a random telephone sample of 612 voters, and is accurate plus or minus 4 per cent, 19 times out of 20.

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With files from San Grewal

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