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October 15, 2022 • 24 minutes ago • 3 minutes read • 5 comments ABC leader Ken Sim has been elected mayor in Vancouver. jpg
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With about a third of the votes counted in Vancouver, ABC mayoral candidate Ken Sim has a significant lead over incumbent Kennedy Stewart. Sim had 16,094 of Stewart’s 9,312 votes with 32 of 106 polls counted.
None of the other candidates appear to be in contention.
The ABC’s list of seven councilors was also in the top spots, followed by the Green Party’s Adriane Carr, OneCity’s Christine Boyle and the Greens’ Pete Fry in 10th and last place. And ABC candidates are also leading the polls for the park board, which Sim once talked about disbanding before deciding to run, and the school board.
It wasn’t until well past midnight on election night 2018 that the final results of the Vancouver mayoral race came in, with Kennedy Stewart edging out Ken Sim of the Non-Partisan Association by a narrow margin of ‘nails, with a margin of less than 1,000 votes.
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This year’s race saw a rematch of Sim and Stewart, both with new parties. Stewart, a former NDP Member of Parliament, ran and won in 2018 as Vancouver’s first independent mayor in a generation, and this year sought re-election with a new party he started called Forward Together, along with a list of six council candidates.
Sim, a business owner, announced in 2020 that he wanted to make another run for the mayor’s office, but this time against the NPA. Instead, Sim ran with a new party called ABC Vancouver, which had a slate of candidates seeking majorities on the council, park board and school board.
The scene at Vancouver mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick’s campaign headquarters in Vancouver on election night, Oct. 15, 2022, with less than 45 minutes left until the polls close. Photo by Douglas Quan/PNG
Coun. Colleen Hardwick also ran for the NPA in 2018 and was elected to council, and later left the party to form her own new group, called TEAM for a Livable Vancouver, and ran for the ‘mayor’s office, with a list of councils, parks and school board candidates.
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The NPA has been a dominant force in Vancouver politics for several decades, but has not held the Vancouver mayor’s seat or a majority on council since 2008. Its 2018 performance was its strongest in a decade, with the party seeing five candidates elected to the council, along with three to the school board and two to the parking board.
But in the four years since then, the party has been battered by a wave of public defections. Nine of the 10 politicians elected in 2018 under the NPA banner have since left the party, with many of them running this year for other parties. The only sitting NPA politician who sought re-election this year with the party was Coun. Melissa De Genova. The NPA announced former West Vancouver police officer Fred Harding as its mayoral candidate in late August, weeks after its previous candidate John Coupar abruptly resigned. Harding ran for mayor in 2018 with a party called Vancouver 1st, which came in sixth.
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Kennedy Stewart’s 2018 election night event, when he first ran for mayor as an independent (and won), was in the basement bar of the Waldorf Hotel in East Hastings near the harbor . A slightly different atmosphere tonight in the grand ballroom of the Paradox Hotel (formerly Trump Tower) downtown.
— Dan Fumano (@fumano) October 16, 2022
Former BC Liberal strategist and federal Liberal Mark Marissen was the mayoral candidate for Progress Vancouver, another new party that also runs a council list. Marissen also worked behind the scenes in the 2018 Vancouver election, managing the Yes Vancouver campaign and its mayoral candidate Hector Bremner, who came in fifth.
Three other parties with sitting councilors fielded more council candidates this year, but no mayoral candidates: the Greens, OneCity and COPE. Vision Vancouver, which had a majority on council for a decade starting in 2008 before being ousted from council in 2018, also fielded candidates for council, and the new party VOTE Socialist fielded a single candidate for council.
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