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The 2022 Vancouver municipal election was held on October 15, 2022, [2] [3] the same day as the municipal elections held throughout British Columbia. Voters elected the mayor of Vancouver by first-past-the-post .
1 OneCity 0 Vacant 2 Incumbent councillors Vacant [a] A by-election will be held on April 5, 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to fill two vacant seats on Vancouver City Council, following the resignations of Christine Boyle and Adriane Carr. Background Christine Boyle Christine Boyle was first elected to Vancouver City Council in the 2018 Vancouver municipal election and was the first ...
The 2022 municipal elections saw a wave of centre-right mayors come to office, such as Ken Sim in Vancouver, Tom Dyas in Kelowna and Reid Hamer-Jackson in Kamloops, as a response to rising crime and homelessness in the province. [3] Incumbents marked with "(X)". Candidates who were elected are listed in boldface and accompanied by a †.
Vancouver is one of two major cities in Canada to have political parties at the municipal level, the other being Montreal. [1] Municipal politics in Vancouver were historically dominated by the centre-right Non-Partisan Association, a "free enterprise coalition" originally established to oppose the influence of the democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. [2]
However, in the 2015 federal election and the 2017 provincial election, the west side of Vancouver has shifted more towards left-wing candidates. Unlike most other municipalities in Canada (aside from Montreal), Vancouver's civic politics operate under a system of locally based political parties , rather than unaligned independents.
Vancouver City Council is the governing body of Vancouver, British Columbia. The council consists of a mayor and ten councillors elected to serve a four-year term. Monthly, a deputy mayor is appointed from among the councillors. The current mayor is Ken Sim, who leads the party ABC Vancouver. City council meetings are held in Vancouver City Hall.
The 2024 British Columbia general election was held on October 19, 2024, to elect 93 members (MLAs) of the Legislative Assembly to serve in the 43rd parliament of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The election was the first to be held since a significant redistribution of electoral boundaries was finalised in 2023. The Legislative ...
October 6: Municipal election in Courcelles-Saint-Évariste, Quebec; October 7: Municipal by-election in Ward 5, Summerside, Prince Edward Island [41] October 17: Yukon municipal elections; October 19: 2024 Nova Scotia municipal elections; 2024 British Columbia general election; October 21: 2024 New Brunswick general election