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A by-election will be held on April 5, 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to fill two vacant seats on Vancouver City Council, following the resignations of Christine Boyle and Adriane Carr. [1]
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A by-election will be held on April 5, 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to fill two vacant seats on Vancouver City Council, following the resignations of Christine Boyle and Adriane Carr. [1]
Christine Boyle was first elected to Vancouver City Council in the 2018 Vancouver municipal election and was the first OneCity Vancouver politician to be elected as a city councillor. [2] [3]
Prior to the 2024 British Columbia general election, she sought the British Columbia New Democratic Party nomination for the newly established Vancouver riding of Vancouver-Little Mountain and eventually won the seat in the provincial election on October 19, 2024. [4] [5] Although there is no law in British Columbia prohibiting members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from holding municipal government offices, it is common for them to resign from their previous municipal positions to focus more on their provincial government duties. After being elected as an MLA, she announced her intention to resign from city council and formally did so on December 12, 2024. [6]
Adriane Carr, the former leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, was first elected to Vancouver City Council in the 2011 Vancouver municipal election as a member of the BC Green's municipal affilate in Vancouver. [7] She was re-elected in 2014, 2018, and 2022.
Carr officially resigned from Vancouver City Council on January 15, 2025, stating that she had become increasingly frustrated with the governing style of the incumbent ABC Vancouver mayor and councillors, especially their decision to removed Carr and fellow Green councillor Pete Fry from their external positions on the Metro Vancouver board of directors. [8] She also cited a desire to retire from politics to spend more time with her family.
As the by-election for Christine Boyle's seat was not yet scheduled at the time of Carr's resignation, both seats will now be elected in a single by-election. [9]
On February 2, 2025, the Coalition of Progressive Electors nominated Sean Orr as their candidate in the by-election. [12] Orr previously ran for city council during the 2022 Vancouver municipal election as part of VOTE Socialist.
On January 28, 2025, OneCity Vancouver announced Lucy Maloney, a longtime cycling activist, as their candidate for the by-election. [13]
On January 20, 2025, former Vancouver City Councilor Colleen Hardwick of TEAM for a Livable Vancouver announced the party's intention to nominate two candidates for the by-election. [14] On February 1, 2025, the party nominated Hardwick and Theodore Abbott to run in the election. [15]
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