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Incumbent Kennedy Stewart conceded the mayoral seat of Vancouver to Ken Sim. Sim was defeated riding an NPA slate against Stewart in 2018.
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After midnight, the ABC Vancouver mayoral candidate leads with 69,677 votes to Stewart’s 41,624. Ninety-six of the 106 polls have been recorded. “ABC Vancouver was born out of a desire for change, a desire to do politics differently,” Sim said in his victory speech. “It was born with the promise that decisions in government should not be made on the advice of pollsters, lobbyists, activists or whatever else is trending on Twitter. “But instead, it should be done with the advice of parents and educators and scientists and health care providers, and what happens in community town halls and coffee shops and the occasional local pub,” he said with a laugh.
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The seven ABC councilors led by Sarah Kirby-Yung were 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 final place. And ABC’s candidates are also atop the polls for the park board — which Sim once talked about disbanding before he decided to run a slate — and the school board. In his concession speech from a downtown Vancouver hotel ballroom, Stewart acknowledged he was “sad” to step down as mayor but insisted the city had made progress on housing over the past four years. “I think we’ve really turned the tide on the housing crisis we have in the city,” he told supporters, citing a shift from building mostly investor housing to rental and social housing.
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He also noted that Vancouver was the first major city to decriminalize drugs and provide safe supply.
Locke dismisses McCullum at Surrey
In Surrey, Brenda Locke held a significant lead over incumbent Doug McCallum overnight, although her margin of victory with all polls counted shrank to less than 1,000 votes, 33,311 to 32,338.
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A key to Locke’s campaign promise to keep the RCMP in Surrey hinges on whether Surrey Connect secures a majority on council. Surrey Connect candidates took four of the eight council seats. Gordie Hogg’s Surrey First, which promised a review of the police transition, took two seats and McCallum’s Safe Surrey Coalition sat in seventh and eighth. This means that Locke has the power to break any possible tie in a citizens’ vote on the matter.
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Changes at the top in other BC cities
Change was an issue in other major BC cities. on Saturday, with new mayors being elected in Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops and Penticton. Victoria mayoral candidate Marianne Alto, who was among eight candidates seeking to replace outgoing two-term mayor Lisa Helps, easily won with more than 50 per cent of the vote. In Kelowna, Tom Dias unseated incumbent mayor Colin Bashran. In Kamloops, Reid Hamer-Jackson defeated former councilors Dieter Dudy, Sadie Hunter and Arjun Singh with 31.6 per cent of the vote to become the city’s next mayor. And in Penticton, Julius Bloomfield edged out Jason Reinen for mayor, beating out incumbent John Vassilakis, who came in third. The new urban party Contract With Langley now dominates Langley Township politics. Eric Woodward was elected mayor along with five councilors nominated by the party. Former BC Liberal MLA Rich Coleman’s return to politics was short-lived as he came third as the mayoral candidate for Elevate Langley.
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Check out our extensive coverage and results from these Lower Mainland municipalities: • Vancouver • Surrey • Burnaby • New Westminster • North Vancouver and West Vancouver • Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody • Langley The latest from Port Moody: Meghan Lahti, a longtime councilwoman, managed to win a promotion to the city’s interim mayor, garnering 4,940 votes to Steve Milani’s 3,953, with votes counted only by mail . Lahti said the results show voters wanted a change at city hall. And he intends to bring “a big, big change to the way meetings are held and how governance is approached. You know, it’s not about being lonely. This is not about divisive policies.” Milani campaigned to limit development, saying “no to towers” and calling his opponent too close to the development industry. Lahti, however, said he’s “not advocating much more development than we’re already on track to achieve,” but said the results show citizens want development, particularly around the two SkyTrain stations and the West Coast Express stop .
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In Coquitlam, Richard Stewart easily won the election, garnering 14,105 votes – 70 percent of the ballots – to Adele Gamar’s 5,367. Third-place candidate Mark Mahovlich garnered only 818 votes.
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And in New West: Patrick Johnston replaced outgoing Mayor Jonathan Cote, and his Community First New Westminster party will lead a patchwork of four councilors and six school trustees. With all polls reporting, the former councilman finished with 6,676 votes, a 1,449-vote margin over the runner-up, New Westminster attorney Ken Armstrong, who received 5,227 votes.
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Back in Vancouver, unofficial results, including voter turnout, didn’t start coming out until 9:05 p.m., not 8 p.m. as in all other municipalities. This is because John Oliver’s polling station remained open for an extra hour due to an earlier power cut. Vancouver election reporter Dan Fumano is in Kennedy Stewart’s headquarters, and this time he’s an unusual choice. Check out what Dan had to say after the polls closed: In 2018, when former NDP MP Kennedy Stewart ran for mayor of Vancouver as an independent, his election night was in the basement bar of the Waldorf Hotel, on East Hastings near Vancouver Harbour. The trendy East Van basement space seemed a good fit for Stewart, who played in rock bands. This year, as Stewart seeks his second term as mayor, it’s a very different venue with a very different atmosphere: the grand ballroom of the downtown Paradox Hotel, probably better known to most Vancouverites as the former Trump International Hotel and Tower .
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Here’s Derrick Penner in Port Moody: Early polls, advance 1 and 2 are in for @CityofPoMo , Meghan Lahti leads for mayor, 1,246 over Steve Milani with 902. Newcomer Callan Morrison leads council race with 1,205 votes, incumbent Diana Dilworth trails with 1,155 . @VancouverSun #portmoody #pomovotes — Derrick Penner (@derrickpenner) October 16, 2022
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Action at the Port Moody rec center was “very busy,” according to a poll worker who still greeted a light but steady stream of traffic in the final hour of voting in the Tri-Cities’ third-largest community. Port Moody’s is perhaps the most hotly contested election in the area, with incumbent Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart running for re-election and popular Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West being re-elected by a landslide. In the third city, two former councilors, Meghan Lahti and Steve Milani, are vying to replace outgoing Mayor Rob Vagramov. Development and protecting Port Moody’s back-to-nature character were key issues for voters who showed up to vote near the end. “The community is definitely growing and I think we need strong people to (support) the growth,” said first-time voter Anastasia Sergiannidis. “We’re definitely keeping our roots, but we need a roof.”
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Port Moody is a “young, vibrant community,” where everywhere is “three minutes away from the wild,” said 14-year resident Lionel Prince, and he’s voting to keep it that way. “I voted against people who want to grow, let’s say, in a negative way,” Prince said. A key issue for him is the disruption of a proposed road through Bert Flinn Park to a potential development in neighboring Anmore, which is “almost our backyard”. Still quiet at the Kennedy Stewart and Forward Together event here at the Paradox Hotel (formerly Trump Tower), for now it’s just staffers setting up and reporters drinking coffee (I already spilled a good amount on my shirt). #vanelxn22 #vanpoli pic . twitter.com/O7Opf32XGE — Dan Fumano (@fumano) October 16, 2022
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Calm before the storm inside mayoral candidate Ken Sim’s campaign offices in Vancouver…
With just under 90 minutes until the polls close in Vancouver, all is quiet at Ken Sim’s election night headquarters in southeast Vancouver. Credit: Douglas Quan Photo by Douglas Quan/PNG /jpg
Catalina Dinu (left) and her wife Mirela Rotaru were excited to vote in Canada for the first time since immigrating from Romania six years ago. “We are happy to vote for the first time, for the opportunity and the right, and we hope for the best for our community,” said Rotaru. pic.twitter.com/LJharD4mYS
— SusanLazaruk (@SusanLazaruk) October 16, 2022
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From Surrey election reporter Glenda Luymes just before the polls closed: Thirty minutes before the polls close, Surrey’s banquet hall where supporters of incumbent mayoral candidate Doug McCallum gather fills with people, including many families. The mood is light as people eat dinner and children play in front of the empty stage. A large banner behind the podium reads “Doug McCallum Makes It”. Other mayoral candidates, Brenda Locke, Gordie Hogg, Sukh Dhaliwal and Jinny Sims, have their own parties nearby.
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It’s election day
British Columbians head to the polls to vote for mayors, councillors, school administrators (and, only in Vancouver, park board commissioners). By the end of the night, after the polls closed at 8pm, more…
