2017 Vancouver municipal by-election

2017 Vancouver municipal by-election
← 2014 October 14, 2017 (2017-10-14) 2018 →
Turnout11.0%[1] Decrease 32.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
NPA
Councillor Pete Fry (cropped).jpg
Candidate Hector Bremner Jean Swanson Pete Fry
Party NPA Independent Green
Seats before 3 N/A 1
Seat change Increase 1 Steady Steady
Popular vote 13,372 10,263 9,759
Percentage 27.83 21.36 20.31
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
ONECITY
VISION
Candidate Judy Graves Diego Cardona
Party OneCity Vision
Seats before 0 7
Seat change Steady Decrease 1
Popular vote 6,327 5,411
Percentage 13.17 11.26

A municipal by-election was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on October 14, 2017. One empty seat on city council and all the seats on the Vancouver school board were filled.

These elections were held outside the normal four-year schedule. Unlike in full elections, voters were only asked to elect one councillor and nine school board trustees rather than the full complement of elected municipal positions. The by-election was necessary for two reasons: the resignation of Vision Vancouver councillor Geoff Meggs from City Council to become BC Premier John Horgan's chief of staff[2] and the desire of the new provincial NDP government to reconstitute the Vancouver School Board, whose elected members had all been fired by the previous BC Liberal government.[3]

The school board election marked the first time a OneCity candidate was elected to any position in Vancouver's elected government.

  1. ^ "Election results". City of Vancouver. Retrieved June 17, 2022.
  2. ^ Little, Simon (July 4, 2017). "Vancouver Councillor Geoff Meggs to be John Horgan's chief of staff". Global News. Retrieved October 31, 2017.
  3. ^ McElroy, Justin (September 7, 2017). "Who's running in Vancouver's October byelection?". CBC News. Retrieved October 31, 2017.