Municipal political parties in Vancouver

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Vancouver is one of two major cities in Canada to have political parties at the municipal level, the other being Montreal. [1] Municipal politics in Vancouver were historically dominated by the centre-right Non-Partisan Association, a "free enterprise coalition" originally established to oppose the influence of the democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. [2] Following the 2008 municipal election, the social democratic Vision Vancouver became the dominant party in city politics for 10 years until its defeat in the 2018 election. [3] [4]

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Parties with elected members

NameFoundedIdeologyAlignmentLeader(s) City council Park board [lower-alpha 1] School board
  ABC Vancouver 2021 Conservatism Centre-right Ken Sim
8 / 11
3 / 7
4 / 9
  Green Party of Vancouver 1984 Green politics Green politics Adriane Carr
2 / 11
1 / 7
2 / 9
  OneCity Vancouver 2014 Social democracy Centre-left [6] [7]
  • Cara Ng
  • Laura Track
1 / 11
0 / 7
1 / 9
  Coalition of Progressive Electors 1968 Democratic socialism Left-wing
  • Tristan Markle
  • Nancy Trigueros
0 / 11
0 / 7
1 / 9

Other active parties

NameFoundedIdeologyAlignmentLeader
Affordable Housing Coalition2022 Pro-housing development Moderate Eric Redmond
  Non-Partisan Association 1937 Conservatism Centre-right to right-wing Fred Harding
  TEAM for a Livable Vancouver 2021 Centre Colleen Hardwick
  Vision Vancouver 2005 Green liberalism Centre to centre-left
  • Aaron Leung
  • Janet Wiegand
VOTE Socialist2022 Left-wing Collective leadership

Defunct parties

NameFoundedAbolishedIdeologyAlignmentLeader
  Coalition Vancouver 20182018 Centre-right to right-wing Wai Young
  Forward Together 20222024 Social democracy Centre-left Kennedy Stewart
  Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver 20072021 Sustainable development Centre Steering committee [10]
  Progress Vancouver 20182023 Centre [12] to centre-right [13] Mark Marissen
  The Electors' Action Movement (TEAM)19681986 Centre Art Phillips
  Vancouver 1st 20132018 Libertarian conservatism Right-wing Fred Harding

Notes

  1. On December 6, 2023, three ABC commissioners left the party to sit as independents after Vancouver mayor Ken Sim introduced a motion to ask the provincial government to change the Vancouver Charter to dissolve the park board. [5]

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