Vancouver municipal election, 2005 - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The City of Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, along with the rest of British Columbia

British Columbia municipal elections, 2005

The Canadian province of British Columbia held its triannual municipal elections on November 19, 2005. Voters in each of BC's 157 municipalities elected mayors and councillors, and rural voters elected directors for their regional district electoral area...

, held its triennial municipal elections
Municipal elections in Canada
Municipal elections in Canada fall within the jurisdiction of the various provinces and territories. Therefore, they occur on different dates, depending on which province they are in. However, municipalities in the same province will usually have their elections on the same day...

on November 19, 2005. Canadian citizens who were over 18 years of age at the time of the vote, and had been a resident of Vancouver for the past 30 days and a resident of B.C. for the past six months, were able to vote for candidates in four races that were presented on one ballot. In addition, Canadian citizen non-resident property owners were eligible to vote.

The ballot elects one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. Each elector may vote for as many candidates as there are open seats (e.g., an elector may vote for ten or fewer councillors).

Overall council results

All figures include votes cast for both mayor and councillors

Party		Party leader and/or mayoral candidate	# of candidates	Council Seats				Total Popular Vote
Party		Party leader and/or mayoral candidate	# of candidates	2002 Vancouver municipal election, 2002 The Coalition of Progressive Electors swept the Vancouver municipal election, 2002, winning 8 of 10 Council seats, 7 of 9 School Board seats and 5 of 7 Parks Board seats. The Non-Partisan Association was reduced to 2 Council seats, 1 School Board seat and 2 Parks Board seats...	Current	Elected	Change	#	%	Change	NPA Non-Partisan Association The Non-Partisan Association is a civic-level electoral organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.The NPA was established in 1937 to...	Sam Sullivan Sam Sullivan Sam Sullivan, CM served as the 38th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has been invested as a Member of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian award...	11	2	2	6	+4				Vision Vision Vancouver Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.-Formation:...	Jim Green	6	-	4	4	0				COPE Coalition of Progressive Electors The Coalition of Progressive Electors is a municipal political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.-Origins:...	David Cadman David Cadman David Cadman is a Vancouver city councillor, first elected in 2002. A social and environmental activist, Cadman is a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors....	5	9	5	1	-4				Work Less Work Less Party of British Columbia The Work Less Party is a political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The party was founded in 2003 by Conrad Schmidt. It has a federal wing and also participates in municipal politics...	Ben West	1	-	-	-					Interest	Austin Spencer	1	-	-	-					Green	none	1	-	-						Nude Garden	Patrick Britten	1	-	-	-					Independent		30	-	-	-
Total			56	11	11	11	-		100.0	-

Mayoralty election

One to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Sam Sullivan Sam Sullivan Sam Sullivan, CM served as the 38th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has been invested as a Member of the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian award...	NPA Non-Partisan Association The Non-Partisan Association is a civic-level electoral organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.The NPA was established in 1937 to...	61543	47.34	Jim Green	Vision Vision Vancouver Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.-Formation:...	57796	44.45	James Green	Independent	4273	3.29	Ben West	Work Less Work Less Party of British Columbia The Work Less Party is a political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The party was founded in 2003 by Conrad Schmidt. It has a federal wing and also participates in municipal politics...	1907	1.47	Scott Yee	Independent	688	0.53	Austin Spencer	VIP	456	0.35	Pedro Mora	Independent	443	0.34	Gölök Zoltán Buday	Independent	384	0.30	John Landry Gray	Independent	355	0.27	Mike Hansen	Independent	304	0.23	Darrell Zimmerman	Independent	283	0.22	Frank N. D'Agostino	Independent	275	0.21	Ian W. Simpson	Independent	246	0.19	Arthur Crossman	Independent	219	0.17	Grant E. Chancey	Independent	198	0.15	Ray Power	Independent	171	0.13	Peter Raymond Haskell	Independent	144	0.11	Malcolm G. MacLeod	Independent	140	0.11	Joe Hatoum	Independent	96	0.07	Eliot Esti	Independent	90	0.07
Total			130,011	100.0

Councillors election

Ten to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Suzanne Anton Suzanne Anton Suzanne Anton is a city councillor for Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently an incumbent city councillor, elected as a member of the Non-Partisan Association in 2005 and in 2008. From the 2008 civic election, she is the only elected NPA representative on the city council...	NPA Non-Partisan Association The Non-Partisan Association is a civic-level electoral organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.The NPA was established in 1937 to...	60586		Peter Ladner Peter Ladner Peter Ladner is a former Vancouver city councillor, first elected as a member of the Non-Partisan Association in 2002 and re-elected in 2005... *	NPA	58142		Raymond Louie Raymond Louie Raymond Louie is a three term Vancouver City Councillor and a former school Trustee. Formerly a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors civic party, Louie broke away and was re-elected in 2005, and again in 2008, as a member of Vision Vancouver.-Background:Born and raised in East Vancouver,... *	Vision Vision Vancouver Vision Vancouver is one of three parties represented on Vancouver City Council in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.-Formation:...	52795		Kim Capri Kim Capri Kim Capri is a Vancouver, British Columbia city councillor who was elected as a member of Non-Partisan Association in 2005. She is sought reelection in the Vancouver municipal election, 2008...	NPA	52719		Tim Stevenson Tim Stevenson Tim Stevenson is a Canadian politician and United Church clergyman. He is currently an elected member of the Vancouver City Council as a member of Vision Vancouver. He is one of two openly gay city councilors in Vancouver, along with Ellen Woodsworth.-Background:He received a B.A... *	Vision	51527		David Cadman David Cadman David Cadman is a Vancouver city councillor, first elected in 2002. A social and environmental activist, Cadman is a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors.... *	COPE Coalition of Progressive Electors The Coalition of Progressive Electors is a municipal political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia.-Origins:...	51155		George Chow George Chow George Chow is a two-term Vancouver City Councillor who was elected as a member of the Vision Vancouver party in 2005 and 2008. Prior to being elected Chow worked at BC Hydro for over 30 years, where he currently works part time.-Background:...	Vision	51107		Elizabeth Ball	NPA	50865		Heather Deal Heather Deal Heather Deal is a professional biologist and Vancouver city councillor who was elected as a member of the Vision Vancouver party in 2005 and 2008. She served as a Vancouver parks board trustee for the 2002 to 2005 term as a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors.Heather was born in England and...	Vision	50624		B.C. Lee	NPA	50047		Ronald Leung	NPA	48430		Fred Bass Fred Bass Fred Bass is a former city councillor, environmentalist and a preventive medicine physician in Vancouver, Canada.-Background:Bass was born in New York City, attended Antioch College, Case-Western Reserve Medical School, Harvard,and Johns Hopkins. He served as a Preventive Medicine Officer in the US... *	COPE	48248		Colleen Hardwick Nystedt	NPA	46737		Valerie Jenkinson	NPA	46077		Heather Harrison	Vision	45719		Kathi Thompson	NPA	45314		Tim Louis Tim Louis Tim Louis is a lawyer and municipal politician in Vancouver, Canada. He was elected to the Vancouver Parks Board in 1990 and 1993, and later to Vancouver City Council as a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors in 1999 and 2002.-Education, Advocacy and Professional Life:Tim Louis... *	COPE	43349		Ellen Woodsworth Ellen Woodsworth thumb\|right\|175px\|Ellen Woodsworth speaking at a press conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada.Ellen Woodsworth is a former Vancouver City Councillor... *	COPE	42724		Anne Roberts Anne Roberts Anne Roberts is a journalism instructor and former Vancouver city councillor. She was elected as a member of the winning majority of Coalition of Progressive Electors in 2002.... *	COPE	41739		Patrick Maliha	NPA	39165		Ann Livingston	Green	27168		Kevin Potvin Kevin Potvin Kevin Potvin is a newspaper publisher and columnist, small business owner, and politician based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He founded and runs the Magpie Magazine Gallery, a retail store on Commercial Drive, and The Republic of East Vancouver, an alternative bi-weekly newspaper...	Independent	10806		Michelle Jasmine Chang	Independent	9016		Jamie Lee Hamilton Jamie Lee Hamilton Jamie Lee Hamilton is a Canadian politician and advocate of aboriginal people, residents of the city's poverty-stricken Downtown Eastside, and sex trade workers...	Independent	8153		Patrick Britten	Nude Garden	6595		Lea Johnson	Independent	6253		Beverley Ballantyne	Independent	6153		John W. Angus	Independent	5728		Wendythirteen	Independent	4247		John Patrick Gordon	Independent	3887		Phyllis Loke	Independent	3562		Marc Boyer	Independent	3388		Greg Aulin	Independent	3335		Don Briere	Independent	3125		David Wilson Applegath	Independent	2718		Steve Wansleeben	Independent	2478
Total			1083681	100.0

Elections to the Vancouver Parks Board

Seven to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Juliet V. Andalis	Independent			Allan De Genova Allan De Genova Allan "Al" De Genova was a five-term Park Board Commissioner for the City of Vancouver, British Columbia. He was first elected in 1993, and subsequently re-elected in 1996, 1999, 2002, and 2005. He was a candidate for the Vision Vancouver Mayoral Nomination in 2008 and was defeated by Gregor... *	NPA			Bill Grant	Independent			Spencer Herbert	COPE			Heather Holden	NPA			Korina Houghton	NPA			Omar Kassis	COPE			Mel Lehan	COPE			Stuart Mackinnon	Green			Tracey Jastinder Mann	Green			Jenn McGinn Jenn McGinn Jenn McGinn is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, representing the electoral district of Vancouver-Fairview, in a by-election on October 29, 2008. She is the first openly lesbian MLA to serve in the British Columbian Legislature...	COPE			Ian Robertson Ian Robertson Ian Robertson may refer to:* Ian Robertson , former Australian rules footballer and currently a football commentator* Ian Robertson, Lord Robertson , Senator of the College of Justice in Scotland, 1966-88...	NPA			Anita Romaniuk Anita Romaniuk Anita Romaniuk is a Canadian politician. She was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia. She received a B.Sc., and a M.Sc. at the University of Victoria and an M.B.A... *	COPE			Ashok Sarkar	Independent			Earl P. Sunshine	Independent			Eric Whiteway	NPA			Sheryl Williamson-Harms	NPA			Loretta Woodcock*	COPE			Marty Zlotnik	NPA
Total				100.0

Elections to the Vancouver School Board

Nine to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%	Rucku Bhandal	NPA			Allen Blakey*	COPE			Jane Bouey*	COPE			Ken Denike	NPA			Leo Jack Ferry	Independent			Carol Gibson	NPA			Todd Gnissios	NPA			Eleanor Gregory	NPA			Sharon Gregson	COPE			Clarence Hansen	NPA			Noel Herron*	COPE			Herman Hui Herman Hui Hui Chung-shing , BBS, MH, JP , anglicized as Herman Hui, is a former chairman of the World Scout Committee, the executive board for the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 2005 to 2008....	Independent			Angela Kenyon*	COPE			Don Lee	NPA			Conrad Lew	COPE			Kevin Millsip*	COPE			Michelle Mollineaux	NPA			Bang Nguyen	Independent			Andrea Reimer Andrea Reimer Andrea Reimer is a Canadian politician, currently serving on Vancouver, British Columbia'sCity Council. She was first elected in 2002 to the Vancouver School Board as a Green Party candidate. She was defeated as a Green Party candidate in her re-election campaign in 2005 and then joined the Vision... *	Green			Allan Wong*	COPE			Shirley M. Wong	NPA
Total				100.0

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