Pete Fry wins Vancouver as Greens and COPE take eight council seats

The City declared the official results on October 21.

Pete Fry has won Vancouver's mayoral race with 98,748 votes in the official results.

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

Burns finished ninth, two votes ahead of Klassen in tenth. The official count changed their order, but the ten elected councillors are the same as in the preliminary results.

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.

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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 official count:

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 separate plebiscites

Both non-binding questions passed. The proposed strengthening of restrictions on public hard-drug use received 137,178 Yes votes and 62,880 No votes. The request for a secure medical facility received 135,509 Yes and 63,722 No. Neither result changes the law by itself.

Final turnout was 43.4%, with 209,711 ballots cast. Council, Park Board and School Board inauguration is November 2.

Updated after the October 21 official declaration. Vote totals and the order of the last two councillors have changed; the elected council and party seat totals have not.

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