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Official 2026 Vancouver Election results

October 21 2026 –

Vancouver voters have elected the Mayor, 10 City Councillors, 7 Park Board Commissioners, and 9 School Trustees.

As per section 108 of the Vancouver Charter, the Chief Election Officer has declared the following candidates elected after receiving the highest number of votes cast for the respective offices.

The names of the elected candidates, political party and number of votes received are as follows.

Mayor (one elected)

  1. FRY, Pete – GREEN: 98,748

Councillors (10 elected)

  1. ORR, Sean – COPE: 83,247
  2. REILLY, Annette – GREEN: 78,680
  3. LESLIE, Chloe – COPE: 67,959
  4. SINGH, Devyani – COPE: 65,644
  5. SMITH, Stephanie – GREEN: 64,232
  6. MALONEY, Lucy – OneCity: 63,321
  7. DUMONT, Camil – GREEN: 62,703
  8. YI-KIERAN, Solomon – COPE: 60,519
  9. BURNS, Bridget – GREEN: 57,924
  10. KLASSEN, Mike – ABC Vancouver: 57,922

Park Board commissioners (7 elected)

  1. DIGBY, Tom – GREEN: 78,976
  2. VAN VLOTEN, Spencer – GREEN: 65,171
  3. WYSS, T’uy’t’tanat Cease – COPE: 64,363
  4. SUZUKI, Tamiko – COPE: 63,265
  5. SMART, Breanne – GREEN: 62,588
  6. HAN, Jamie – COPE: 61,259
  7. BURTON, Sacia – COPE: 59,632

School Trustees (9 elected)

  1. MAH, Suzie – COPE: 83,643
  2. CHENG, Melanie – COPE: 79,840
  3. GIESBRECHT, Gwen – COPE: 72,914
  4. O’KEEFE, Derrick – COPE: 72,840
  5. SIGURDSON, Krista – OneCity: 65,128
  6. STRILESKY, Julie – GREEN: 64,770
  7. MASONGSONG, Alisha – GREEN: 62,913
  8. BROWN, Rory – OneCity: 61,487
  9. CARDWELL, Steve – OneCity: 58,371

Capital Plan borrowing questions

Voters also answered 3 questions on whether the City can borrow $790 million to help fund the 2027-2030 Capital Plan, a $3.5 billion, 4-year plan to maintain, renew, and upgrade City infrastructure and amenities. 

The official results are: 

Question 1: Transportation and street infrastructure ($292 million) 

Result: Yes (147,559) No (41,669)

Question 2: Community serving and civic essential infrastructure ($438 million) 

Result: Yes (150,309) No (38,914)

Question 3: Parks and open public spaces infrastructure ($60 million)

Result: Yes (152,969) No (36,590)

Where a majority voted yes, City Council can borrow the funds for those projects between 2027 and 2030.

Plebiscite results

Question 1

Are you in favour of the City of Vancouver strengthening its laws to forbid open-air hard drug (Heroin, Meth, Fentanyl, and Crack) use in public spaces?

Result: Yes (137,178) No (62,880)

Question 2

Should the City of Vancouver formally ask the Province of BC to convert portions of the old St. Paul’s Hospital, or another similar site, into a secure medical facility that provides acute voluntary and 100-plus involuntary care beds for individuals posing a serious risk to themselves or others due to severe substance use and mental health disorders?

Result: Yes (135,509) No (63,722)

A total of 207,489 plebiscite ballots were cast.

View the full official results online

Voter turnout 

The final number of ballots cast was 209,711, equating to a voter turnout of 43.4% (out of 483,324 registered voters). This is up from 36.3% in 2022.

The Election Office issued 21,595 vote by mail packages. Of these, 1,251 were cancelled by voters, leaving 20,344 active packages. A total of 17,238 completed packages were received before the deadline, a return rate of 84.7%. This is nearly 2.4 times the 7,217 completed packages returned in 2022.

Inauguration

The inauguration ceremony is on November 2, 2026 for City Council, Park Board and School Board.