Adriane Carr

Adriane Carr
Vancouver City Councillor
Assumed office
December 2011
Deputy Leader Green Party of Canada
In office
2006 – 22 January 2014[1]
Serving with Georges Laraque
LeaderElizabeth May
Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia
In office
2000–2005
Preceded byStuart Parker
Tom Hetherington (interim)
Succeeded byJane Sterk
Christopher Bennett (interim)
In office
1983–1985
Preceded bynone
Succeeded bynone
Personal details
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Vancouver
Political partyGreen Party of Canada
ResidenceVancouver

Adriane Carr (born 1952) is a Canadian academic, activist and green politician.[2] She has served on Vancouver City Council since its 2011 municipal election.[3][4] She was a founding member of the Green Party of British Columbia (BC Green Party) and was the party's first leader, then known as "spokesperson", from 1983 to 1985. In 2000, she became the party's leader again.[2] In the 2005 provincial election, she received over 25 percent of the vote in her home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast. In September 2006, she was appointed by federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May, to be one of her two deputy leaders.

After two losses as a federal candidate in the Vancouver Centre electoral district (2008 and 2011), Carr was elected to Vancouver City Council in November 2011. She was the sole candidate of the Green Party of Vancouver for one of 10 seats in the at-large election held in the 2011 municipal election. This was her first electoral success in eight attempts, and she was the first person elected under the Green Party banner to the council of a major Canadian city.[3] She was re-elected in 2014, 2018, and 2022.

  1. ^ "Adriane Carr stepping down as Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Canada". Green Party of Canada. 22 January 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b "About Adriane Carr". Vancouver Centre Federal Green Party Electoral District Association. Archived from the original on 7 September 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  3. ^ a b Montgomery, Christina (19 November 2011). "Carr takes surprise council seat as final poll goes Green". Vancouver, British Columbia: Vancouver Observer. Archived from the original on 22 November 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
  4. ^ Hui, Stephen (19 November 2011). "Greens' Adriane Carr elected to Vancouver city council". Vancouver, British Columbia: The Georgia Straight. Archived from the original on 21 November 2011. Retrieved 20 November 2011.