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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 †.
The election was scheduled on October 15, 2022, at the same time as all other municipal elections in British Columbia. [3] Canadian citizens over the age of 18 were eligible to vote. Voters voted for the mayor, city council, park board commissioners, school board trustees, and 3 capital plan questions. [3]
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 ...
2022 Ontario municipal elections; Municipal by-election in Legal, Alberta [51] October 26: 2022 Manitoba municipal elections; November 7: 2022 Prince Edward Island municipal elections; November 8: Provincial by-election in Brooks-Medicine Hat, Alberta; November 9: Saskatchewan municipal elections (even numbered rural municipality divisions)
The NPA's 2018 mayoral candidate, Ken Sim, was acclaimed as ABC's 2022 mayoral candidate. [7] All ABC Vancouver candidates were elected in the 2022 municipal election. Sim was elected as Mayor with 50.96% of the popular vote, defeating his closest rival incumbent Mayor Kennedy Stewart by 36,139 votes or 21.48% of the popular vote. [8] On ...
After 24 years outside of politics, Siemens was elected to Abbotsford City Council in the 2014 municipal election running for the Abbotsford First slate. [10] Siemens placed fourth on the eight seat council race, winning 11,255 votes city-wide. Siemens was re-elected in the 2018 municipal election, placing sixth with 14,872 votes.
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]
Contemporary elections in British Columbia use a relatively unique system of handling absentee ballots. [10] While all jurisdictions in Canada allow for absentee voting through advance communication with the appropriate federal or provincial election agency, British Columbia is unique in allowing same-day absentee voting at any polling station in the province; ballots so cast are not counted ...