The Electors' Action Movement

The Electors' Action Movement
Defunct municipal party
LeaderArt Phillips
Founded1968 (1968)
Dissolvedc. 1986
HeadquartersVancouver
Ideology
Political positionCentre
ColoursPink

The Electors' Action Movement (TEAM) was a centrist political party from 1968 to the mid-1980s at the municipal level in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It fielded candidates for the office of mayor as well as for positions on the City Council, School Board, and Park Board. It was most successful in the 1970s when it held the majority of council seats from 1972 to 1976.[2]

Retrospective accounts of TEAM have painted it as distinctly shifting civic governance in Vancouver when it gained power. Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail wrote in 2013 that TEAM's Art Phillips' four years as mayor "were pivotal in changing the face of Canada's third largest city, just when it seemed to be headed for pell-mell, American-style development that was ruining so many cities south of the border".[3] May Brown, one of the original TEAM members who represented the party on council for ten years, told Pat Johnson of the Vancouver Courier in 1999 that "TEAM radically altered the face of city government".[4]

  1. ^ "An end - and a beginning" The Province January 5, 1973, p.4
  2. ^ Ley, David (June 1980). Hudson, John C (ed.). "Liberal Ideology and the Postindustrial City". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 70 (2): 239. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1980.tb01310.x. ISSN 2469-4452.
  3. ^ Mickleburgh, Rod. "Visionary mayor Art Phillips remade Vancouver" The Globe & Mail April 24, 2013
  4. ^ Johnson, Pat. "TEAM spirit saved NPA" The Vancouver Courier, November 14, 1999, p. 4