1999 Vancouver municipal election

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1999 Vancouver municipal election
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  1996 November 20, 1999 (1999-11-20) 2002  

11 seats in Vancouver City Council
 First partySecond party
  Philip-Owen.jpg David Cadman.jpg
Leader Philip Owen David Cadman
Party NPA COPE
Seats won92
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 2Increase2.svg 2
Popular vote51,08533,506
Percentage54.19%35.54%

Mayor before election

Philip Owen
NPA

Elected mayor

Philip Owen
NPA

The city of Vancouver, Canada, held municipal elections on November 20, 1999. Canadian citizens who were over 18 years of age at the time of the vote, and had been a resident of Vancouver for the previous 30 days and a resident of B.C. for the previous six months, were able to vote for candidates in four races that were presented on one ballot. [1]

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Overall, 97 candidates filed for election, but two dropped out. There were 95 candidates at election time. There were 256,361 registered voters, and 94,271 votes cast for a voter turnout of 36.77 per cent.

The ballot elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. Each elector could vote for as many candidates as there were open seats (e.g., an elector could vote for ten or fewer councillors). Two borrowing questions were on the ballot, and both passed by a margin of 70 per cent or more.

In an effort to prevent a repeat of the 1996 election that saw many joke candidates register because there was no nomination filing fee, city council adopted a bylaw on September 15, 1999, requiring candidates to pay a nominal $100 fee. [2] The bylaw had the intended effect, but at least two people, going by the names "T. Raax" and "Dr. Evil", did put up the fees and consequently ran as mayoral candidates.

The Green Party and the Coalition of Progressive Electors mounted a combined slate of candidates but ran a single mayoral candidate.

Elections to Vancouver City Council

Overall council results

All figures include votes cast for both mayor and councillors but not school and park board. * Denotes incumbent.

PartyParty leader
or mayoral
candidate
# of
candidates
Council seatsTotal popular vote
1996 Before electionElectedChange#%Change
NPA Philip Owen 10108−2   
COPE David Cadman 502+2   
Green No leader32-     
CIVICJamie Lee Hamilton4---    
 Independent---    
Total10- 100.0-

Mayoralty election

One to be elected.

CandidatePartyVotes%
  Philip Owen * NPA 51,08554.19
  David Cadman COPE 33,50635.54
 Man-Kit KwanIndependent2,213
 Dr. EvilIndependent1,434
 Court Ray CaldwellIndependent784
 Gord D. WaddellIndependent764
 Bill RitchieIndependent721
 Corinna I. vanGerwenNC607
 T. RaaxIndependent462
 John (Eh) McGoldrickIndependent398
 Shawn RyanIndependent352

Councillors election

Ten to be elected.

CandidatePartyVotes%
 Jennifer Clarke NPA 42,81545.52
 Lynne Kennedy *NPA39,59742.00
 Daniel Lee *NPA39,00141.37
  Gordon H. Price *NPA38,74641.10
 George Puil *NPA38,55140.89
 Don Lee *NPA37,16439.42
 Sandy McCormickNPA35,25237.39
  Sam C. Sullivan *NPA34,85836.98
  Fred Bass COPE33,15635.17
  Tim Louis COPE32,86234.86
 Nancy A. ChiavarioIndependent29,800
 Janet C. LeducNPA29,306
  Raymond P. Louie COPE27,788
 Ann LivingstonGreen27,425
 Bev BallantyneGreen26,954
 Andrea RollsCOPE26,544
  Bud Osborn COPE25,244
 Baldev DhuggaNPA26,025
 Sid Chow Ming Fai TanGreen22,827
  Alan Herbert Independent16,987
 Wendy TurnerIndependent14,096
 Ye ChuIndependent13,770
  Jamie Lee Hamilton CIVIC10,895
 Vincent WongIndependent10,397
 Helen SpiegelmanIndependent10,229
 Brian BuchananIndependent9,423
 James WuCA9,202
 Michelle Jasmine ChangIndependent8,885
 Pal B.McDonellIndependent8,783
 Frances WasserleinIndependent8,326
 Ken BregmanIndependent7,544
 Herman HuiIndependent6,939
 Laurie McDonaldCIVIC6,813
 Eligio CabreraCA5,377
 Iain MacFarlaneIndependent5,087
 Greg ReidIndependent4891
 Kevin MooreCA4,577
 Irene Louise SchmidtCIVIC4,260
 Jun AntonioIndependent3,968
 Tyler G. DucharmeCIVIC3,905
 Sindi AddorisioIndependent3,138
 Michael C. McLeanIndependent2,766
 Ryan (France) WarawaIndependent2,570

Elections to the Vancouver Park Board

Seven to be elected.

CandidatePartyVotes%
 Allan De Genova * NPA 37,14339.40
 Dianne LedinghamNPA36,04138.23
 Duncan Wilson *NPA35,38837.64
 Laura McDiarmid *NPA35,48037.64
 Clarence HansenNPA34,09336.16
 Christopher RichardsonNPA32,32234.29
 Roslyn Mairi CassellsGreen31,69433.62
 Colin MetcalfeNPA31,468
 Anita RomaniukCOPE31,110
 Michael HornGreen31,055
 Loretta WoodcockCOPE31,038
 Dale HoffmanGreen30,096
 Dan RogersCOPE30,661
 Munna PrasadCOPE29,218
 Gabriel YongIndependent17,718
 Wendy Y.L. LauIndependent16,253
 Alan P. FetherstonhaughIndependent12,648
 Jack ReidIndependent9,787
 Anne PepperIndependent8,526
 Walter SchultzIndependent6,169
 H. Rand IrwinIndependent5,433
 Zdenky H.S. BurkhardtIndependent4,863

Election to the Vancouver School Board

Ten to be elected.

CandidatePartyVotes%
 Allan Wong COPE 42,56544.85
 Allen BlakeyCOPE42,25444.52
 Bill Yuen *NPA40,89543.09
 Barbara Buchanan *NPA39,93742.08
 John Cheng *NPA39,79141.92
 Bill Brown *NPA39,75841.89
 Ted Hunt *NPA39,48441.60
 Ken Denike *NPA38,75540.83
 Adrienne MontaniCOPE38,58440.65
 Jane BoueyCOPE38,385
 Noel HerronCOPE37,867
 Mary SalvinoNPA37,777
 Kelly Elizabeth WhiteGreen36,344
 John R. RobertsonNPA35,082
 Robert KiyoshkCOPE31,843
 Vijay SingheraNPA31,272
 Tea BuechnerGreen30,840
 Hans-Joachim GragesGreen28,847
 Thomas E. DeakIndependent11,395

References

  1. http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/election99/eligible.htm Who is eligible to vote
  2. http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/newsreleases1999/NRvote99nomination2.htm City of Vancouver Statement, Nomination Deposit Required For All Candidates