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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]
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)
After trials during by-elections in 2022, Elections BC adopted digital voter rolls and electronic tabulation machines for the first time during this election. The digital roll made it possible to cast ballots at any polling location across the province and enabled mail-in ballots returned before the last day of advance voting – October 16 ...
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 ...
Municipal politicians: (1) Lori Ackerman, Mayor of Fort St. John [53] Former municipal politicians: (1) Dianne Watts (Former mayor of Surrey, MP for South Surrey—White Rock, and 2nd-place contestant in the 2018 leadership election). Campaign Co-Chair for Kevin Falcon. [54] Former candidates: (1) Puneet Sandhar, 2017 candidate in Surrey ...
Mainstreet Research conducts regular Canadian national, regional, and municipal public polling and private market and public opinion research. Their data is reported by various media organizations. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In a comparison of polling results with election results, Mainstreet was ranked fourth in Canada by polling analyst Philippe J. Fournier.
Sim was elected mayor of Vancouver, running under the ABC Vancouver party banner, on October 15, 2022. He is the first challenger to defeat a sitting mayor of Vancouver since 1980, when Mike Harcourt upset incumbent Jack Volrich. [12] Sim is the first Chinese Canadian elected Mayor of Vancouver. [13] [14]