I am also quite surprised, everything I saw suggested Chow was going to walk away with it. I mean, she won still but I bet she’d like the polling to have been a bit more close to reality.

I think it was the polling. Once it came down to the wire, a lot of anyone-but-Chow voters backed the person most likely to beat her.

It probably has to do with Tory’s last-minute endorsement. Any poll that included him had him winning by a country mile.