Dodged a mullet...

... but only by a hair. Ha! The final numbers are in from the Telegram's Thursday straw poll:


Shockingly, incumbent Parted down middle got smoked. But it would be an interesting exercise in voting methodology to see how the votes of the also-rans would have broken down if they could have been allocated according to second choice.

The Colour it and Curl it camps would probably have broken disproportionately for Grow a mullet, but there'd probably be upwards of 10 of the 14 percent who were Parted down middle loyalists who'd move over to Combed to side on a second ballot. It would probably still be tight, no more than a couple of percentage points, but plenty enough to spawn conspiracy theories and mockumentaries, 25, 30 years hence, about how the vote was rigged.