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Pete Fry wins Vancouver as Greens and COPE take eight council seats
Vancouver has a new mayor and a very different council. Three incoming councillors told us they support more apartments, neighbourhood shops and bus lanes. We'd like to see those answers turn into something we can use.
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Pete Fry has won Vancouver's mayoral race in the City's unofficial results, with 98,494 votes to Ken Sim's 67,467. The difference is 31,027 votes. All 149 reporting units, including special voting and mail ballots, are included in the City's count.
The Greens and COPE each won four of the ten councillor positions. OneCity won one and ABC Vancouver won one. Fry holds the mayor's seat separately, giving the Greens five of the eleven seats around the council table. That leaves every party short of a majority on its own.
The next Vancouver council
| Councillor | Party | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| Sean Orr | COPE | 83,038 |
| Annette Reilly | Green | 78,476 |
| Chloe Leslie | COPE | 67,791 |
| Devyani Singh | COPE | 65,473 |
| Stephanie Smith | Green | 64,070 |
| Lucy Maloney | OneCity | 63,143 |
| Camil Dumont | Green | 62,540 |
| Solomon Yi-Kieran | COPE | 60,361 |
| Mike Klassen | ABC Vancouver | 57,798 |
| Bridget Burns | Green | 57,788 |
Bridget Burns finished in the tenth council position, 2,807 votes ahead of Joyce Gillespie.
What three incoming councillors told us
Burns, Singh and Yi-Kieran each sent personal replies to Side Street. All three supported allowing more low-rise apartments, shops on residential streets and dedicated lanes for frequent buses. All three opposed freezing the City's general property-tax levy in 2027.
Singh tied support for apartments to tenant protections. Burns singled out Broadway in her bus-lane answer. These are personal replies from three of the ten incoming councillors, rather than official Green or COPE party answers.
Our take: there's something to work with here
We want more neighbours, a shop we can walk to and a bus that doesn't spend half the trip sitting in traffic. Having three incoming councillors put their support for those things in writing is encouraging. We'll keep their answers handy when the votes come around.
We'd also like the housing discussion to make more room for four- to six-storey buildings with shops underneath. More homes should help make a neighbourhood useful throughout the day. The details still matter, especially for tenants who already live there.
Parks, schools and borrowing
The City's announcement lists four COPE and three Green commissioners for Park Board. The School Board has four COPE, three OneCity and two Green trustees.
The seven Park Board commissioners are Tom Digby, Spencer Van Vloten, T'uy't'tanat Cease Wyss, Tamiko Suzuki, Breanne Smart, Jamie Han and Sacia Burton.
The nine School Board trustees are Suzie Mah, Melanie Cheng, Gwen Giesbrecht, Derrick O'Keefe, Krista Sigurdson, Julie Strilesky, Alisha Masongsong, Rory Brown and Steve Cardwell.
Voters approved each borrowing question in the preliminary count:
| Borrowing question | Amount | Yes | No |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transportation and street infrastructure | $292 million | 147,171 | 41,572 |
| Community serving and civic essential infrastructure | $438 million | 149,938 | 38,802 |
| Parks and open public spaces infrastructure | $60 million | 152,587 | 36,489 |
Together, the questions authorize $790 million in borrowing toward the 2027 to 2030 Capital Plan. The $292 million for transportation and streets is one we'll be watching closely. We'd like to see it make the walk to school, the bus stop and the next neighbourhood easier and safer.
The two non-binding plebiscites are separate. Their results are due with the official declaration by 4 p.m. on October 21. The City reports 209,214 ballots and turnout above 43%, compared with 36% in 2022. Council, Park Board and School Board inauguration is November 2.
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