The Sunday Walk

Happy Monday,

Pete Fry is Vancouver's next mayor in the City's unofficial results. The Greens and COPE each won four of the ten councillor positions, with one each for OneCity and ABC Vancouver.

I want more homes, a shop within walking distance and a bus that gets past the traffic. Three incoming Vancouver councillors have put their support for those things in writing. That's an encouraging place to start.

Results are subject to change.

Fry wins and the next council takes shape

Fry received 98,494 votes to Ken Sim's 67,467, a difference of 31,027. All 149 reporting units are included in the City's full count.

The ten councillors are Sean Orr, Annette Reilly, Chloe Leslie, Devyani Singh, Stephanie Smith, Lucy Maloney, Camil Dumont, Solomon Yi-Kieran, Mike Klassen and Bridget Burns. Fry holds the mayor's seat separately. That gives the Greens five of the eleven seats at the council table, short of a majority on their own.

Three incoming councillors answered our questionnaire personally: Burns, Singh and Yi-Kieran. All three supported more low-rise apartments, shops on residential streets and dedicated lanes for frequent buses. All opposed freezing the City's general property-tax levy in 2027. Singh tied her apartment answer to tenant protections; Burns singled out Broadway for bus lanes. Their full replies give us something specific to follow when the motions and budgets arrive. These are personal answers, not official Green or COPE party replies.

The City's announcement lists four COPE and three Green Park Board commissioners. The School Board has four COPE, three OneCity and two Green trustees.

All three borrowing questions passed in the preliminary count: $292 million for transportation and streets, $438 million for community serving and civic essential infrastructure, and $60 million for parks and open public spaces. The two non-binding plebiscites are separate. Their results are due with the official declaration by 4 p.m. on October 21.

Council, Park Board and School Board inauguration is November 2. Read our Vancouver results story.

Results from seven nearby municipalities

Burnaby and New Westminster

In Burnaby, Mike Hurley received 28,946 votes to Heymann Yip's 9,250, with all 57 tabulators reporting. Seven BCA councillors and Richard T. Lee of NEW Burnaby fill the eight council seats.

New Westminster gives Daniel Fontaine 12,361 votes to Patrick Johnstone's 10,128, with all 23 polls reporting. The Progressives take five of six council seats; Community First's Tasha Henderson takes the other. Sixth-place Karima Budhwani and seventh-place Ray Porcellato are separated by 32 votes.

Richmond and Surrey

Richmond's count lists Rob Howard elected mayor with 19,676 votes, 880 ahead of Alexa Loo. All 51 voting places are counted.

In Surrey, Doug McCallum has 42,741 votes to Brenda Locke's 30,886, with all 164 tabulators reporting. Safe Surrey Coalition takes seven of eight council seats; Harry Bains of Surrey Connect takes the other.

The North Shore

The City of North Vancouver's announcement lists Linda Buchanan elected mayor, with Holly Back, Don Bell, Angela Girard, Andrew Robertson, Shervin Shahriari and Tony Valente on council.

In the separate District of North Vancouver, Mike Little has 10,431 votes to Stephan Nieweler's 6,145. All 26 voting places are reporting. Sixth-place council candidate Daniel Anderson is 94 votes ahead of Linda Munro.

West Vancouver lists Kirk LaPointe on 5,215 votes and Mark Sager on 3,799. Peter Lambur holds sixth council place, 71 votes ahead of Christine Cassidy. The close council margins are worth watching as official results arrive.

I've also pulled the regional results into a separate story, with a look at what the incoming councils could mean for homes, neighbourhood shops and getting around.

Back to the waterfront

Our Batch story asks what a busy public waterfront concession returns to the public. The Park Board reported more than $320,000 in gross sales in the Kits Pool concession's first eight weeks of 2024. That is not the Board's net revenue. We've corrected the Ambleside section: it reopened during summer 2026, though we haven't established the exact date.

What should the incoming Council or Park Board tackle first on your block? Reply and tell me.

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Thanks for reading,

Konrad

Side Street Vancouver