Vancouver municipal election, 2014

Vancouver municipal election, 2014
10 seats on the Vancouver City Council + 1 Mayor ; 9 seats on Vancouver School Board ; 7 seats on Vancouver Park Board ;
Mayor before election; Gregor Robertson ; Vision	Elected Mayor; Gregor Robertson ; Vision

Last updated April 08, 2019

The 2014 Vancouver municipal election took place on November 15, 2014, the same day as other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia selected their new municipal governments. As with previous elections, voters elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees, and seven park board commissioners through plurality-at-large voting. Voters also voted on whether to approve a capital budget.

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre, which makes it the fifth-most densely populated city with over 250,000 residents in North America behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada according to that census; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Roughly 30% of the city's inhabitants are of Chinese heritage. Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city.

In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

Plurality-at-large voting, also known as block vote or multiple non-transferable vote (MNTV), is a non-proportional voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series of check boxes and tallying votes similar to a plurality election. Multiple winners are elected simultaneously to serve the district. Block voting is not a system for obtaining proportional representation; instead the usual result is that where the candidates divide into definitive parties the most popular party in the district sees its full slate of candidates elected, resulting in a landslide.

Outcome

Incumbent Mayor Gregor Robertson sought re-election with the Vision Vancouver Party,^[1] which swept the 2011 election when it elected him and all of the party's city council, park board and school board candidates. In this election, Robertson was re-elected as mayor; however, Vision representation decreased with only six councillors, four school trustees, and one park board commissioner elected. In total, ten Vision candidates were not elected, including five incumbent candidates: one councillor, three school trustees, and one park board commissioner.

Gregor Angus Bethune Robertson is a Canadian entrepreneur and politician, who served as the 39th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 2008 to 2018. As mayor, Robertson oversaw the creation and implementation of the Greenest City 2020 Action Plan and spearheaded the creation of the city's first comprehensive Economic Action Strategy.

Vision Vancouver is a social democratic and green liberal municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Vision was formed in the months leading up to the 2005 municipal election.

The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) came into the election as the second largest party in Vancouver, with two city councillors, two park board commissioners, and one school trustee. Their mayoral candidate was journalist Kirk LaPointe who lost to Robertson in the mayoral race by 10,086 votes. The NPA team gained ground electing three councillors, four park board commissioners, and four school trustees.

The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) is a municipal political party in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.

Kirk LaPointe is a Canadian journalist and politician.

The Vancouver Green Party sought to improve on its 2011 results which saw the first-ever Green Party city councillor, Adriane Carr, elected. Carr was re-elected as councillor and was actually the councillor elected with the most votes at 74,077. Additionally, two park commissioners and one school board trustee were elected, giving the Green Party of Vancouver its best result in the history of Vancouver municipal elections.

Adriane Carr is a Canadian academic, activist and politician with the Green Party in British Columbia and Canada. She is also a councillor on Vancouver City Council. She was a founding member and the Green Party of British Columbia's first spokesperson (leader) from 1983 to 1985. In 1993 the Party formally established the position of "Leader". In 2000, she became the party's leader again. In the 2005 provincial election, she received in excess of 25% of the vote in her home riding of Powell River-Sunshine Coast. She resigned her position in September 2006 when she was appointed by Federal Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, to be one of her two Deputy Leaders of the Green Party of Canada. Earlier in 2006, Carr had co-chaired the successful campaign to get her political ally and long-time friend Elizabeth May elected as Leader. After two losses as a federal candidate in Vancouver Centre, 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 November 2011 municipal election. This was her first electoral success in eight attempts, and she is the first person elected to a major Canadian City's Council under the Green Party banner. She continues to support the Green Party of British Columbia and the Green Party of Canada.

The Coalition of Progressive Electors, which officially cut ties with former ally Vision Vancouver in 2012, lost its only elected official when school trustee Allan Wong switched from COPE to Vision Vancouver on December 8, 2013, ending decades of COPE representation in the city. COPE contested this election with its first mayoral candidate since 2002, community organizer and former NDP candidate Meena Wong. The party also had candidates for every council seat.^[2] Wong placed third in the mayoral race, and no COPE candidates were elected.

The Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) is a municipal political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia. It has traditionally been associated with tenants, environmentalists, and the labour movement. COPE is generally guided by social-democratic principles and has a long history of advocating for issues such as improving public transit and investing in affordable housing. It last held a majority government on City Council from 2002 to 2005. COPE describes itself as being committed to environmental sustainability and generally supports measures and legislation to reduce municipal greenhouse emissions and to enact other environmental reforms. COPE cites climate change as a threat to the planet and to future generations, and much of its platform is based upon opposition to development that could contribute to climate change or endanger the city from an environmental perspective.

The New Democratic Party is a social democratic federal political party in Canada. The party was founded in 1961 out of the merger of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC). The party sits to the left of the Liberal Party of Canada within the Canadian political spectrum. The leader of the federal NDP is Jagmeet Singh, who won the 2017 leadership election.

New Party Vancouver 1st ran a slate of candidates for all offices. These included Olympic bronze medal winning swimmer Brent Hayden as a park board commissioner candidate, and two incumbent school board trustees Ken Denike, and Sophia Woo, who had been expelled from the NPA in June. However, no candidates from Vancouver 1st were elected.

Brent Hayden Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist, world champion, former world record-holder

Brent Matthew Hayden is a Canadian former competitive swimmer. Hayden was a bronze medal-winner in the 100-metre freestyle at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. He was world champion in the same event in 2007 with Filippo Magnini of Italy. By winning the 100-metre, Hayden became the first Canadian in 21 years to win a gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships, he was also the first Canadian to appear in the 100-metre final at the Olympics since Dick Pound at the 1960 Summer Olympics, and the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in the 100-metre. Hayden adds a further three silver and one bronze medal to his World Championship totals. In addition, Hayden is currently the Canadian record-holder in the 200-metre, 100-metre and 50-metre freestyle in both the short-course and long-course. He has also held the world record in the 4×100-metre medley relay, and the 4×200-metre freestyle relay.

Nominations for the 2014 vote opened on September 30, 2014 and closed on October 10, 2014.^[3] Vancouver uses an at-large election system for all elected positions; the ten candidates with most citywide votes are elected as councillors.^[4]

Just before 8:00 P.M. on election day, voting hours were extended by 45 minutes, at four locations, because of ballot shortages earlier in the day due to high voter turnout.^[5]

Political parties

This is a list of political parties who are running candidates in the 2014 election:

	Leader	Political Position	Notes
Vision Vancouver	Gregor Robertson	Centre-left	Vision Vancouver's leadership review on May 4, 2014 resulted in the nomination of incumbent candidates who ran for re-election for the offices they had held, including Mayor Gregor Robertson who had a 99% approval rating from members. On June 22, 2014, Vision Vancouver held a nomination meeting for candidates to fill one school trustee and four park commissioner seats.^[6] Two park board candidates dropped out of the race, but a full slate of candidates was announced on September 10, 2014.^[7]
Non-Partisan Association	Kirk LaPointe	Centre-right	NPA announced on July 14, 2014, that the party's mayoral candidate would be journalist Kirk LaPointe.^[8]
Green Party of Vancouver	Adriane Carr (de facto)	Centre-left	On March 31, 2014 the Green Party of Vancouver announced its candidates for City Council, school board and parks board.^[9]
Coalition of Progressive Electors	Meena Wong	Left	COPE announced its candidates following an open Nominations Conference on September 7, 2014. One council candidate and an additional parks candidate were ratified by the party's Indigenous Equity Caucus at a later date.^[10]
Cedar Party	Glen Chernen		The Vancouver Cedar Party, launched in November 2012, believed in strong community roots.^[11]
Hotel Workers United – Local 40	Ferdinad Ramos
Independent Democratic Electors Alliance	Jamie Lee Hamilton
OneCity Vancouver	RJ Aquino		OneCity was a new Vancouver political party launched in May 2014 with the intention of fielding candidates for the November 2014 Municipal Election.^[12]
Public Education Project	Jane Bouey		The Public Education Project believed public education is a cornerstone of a democratic society. They wanted education, and the well-being of children and youth, to be given priority attention in the election.^[13]
Stop Party	Meynard Aubichon
Vancouver 1st	Jesse Johl		Vancouver 1st was committed to bringing accountable, democratic and transparent government. Vancouver 1st was relying on grassroots support.^[14]

Candidates and results

The nomination period officially opened on September 30, 2014 and closed on October 10, 2014.^[15]

(I) denotes incumbents.

Mayor

Ten candidates sought election to the position of mayor; four were affiliated with a political party and six were independents. Incumbent mayor Gregor Robertson of Vision Vancouver was re-elected for a third straight term.

Candidate Name	Party affiliation	Votes	% of votes	Elected
(I) Gregor Robertson	Vision Vancouver	83,529	45.97%	X
Kirk LaPointe	Non-Partisan Association	73,443	40.42%
Meena Wong	Coalition of Progressive Electors	16,791	9.24%
Bob Kasting	Independent	1,682	0.93%
Mike Hansen	Independent	714	0.39%
Jeff Hill	Independent	611	0.34%
Tim Ly	Independent	556	0.31%
Meynard Aubichon	Stop Party	508	0.28%
Cherryse Kaur Kaiser	Independent	492	0.27%
Colin Shandler	Independent	459	0.25%

City Councillors

Ten councillors were elected from forty-nine candidates. Of the candidates, thirty-nine were affiliated with a political party; ten were independent. All ten incumbent councillors sought re-election: seven from Vision Vancouver, two from the NPA, and one from the Green Party. NPA candidate Melissa De Genova and Vision candidate Niki Sharma were both sitting Park Commissioners from their respective parties. Of the ten elected councillors, six were from Vision, three were from the NPA, and one was from the Green Party.

Candidate Name	Party Affiliation	Votes	% of Votes	Elected
(I) Adriane Carr	Green Party of Vancouver	74,077	40.77%	X
(I) George Affleck	Non-Partisan Association	68,419	37.65%	X
(I) Elizabeth Ball	Non-Partisan Association	67,195	36.98%	X
Melissa De Genova	Non-Partisan Association	63,134	34.74%	X
(I) Heather Deal	Vision Vancouver	62,698	34.51%	X
(I) Kerry Jang	Vision Vancouver	62,595	34.45%	X
(I) Andrea Reimer	Vision Vancouver	62,316	34.29%	X
(I) Raymond Louie	Vision Vancouver	61,903	34.07%	X
(I) Tim Stevenson	Vision Vancouver	57,640	31.72%	X
(I) Geoff Meggs	Vision Vancouver	56,831	31.28%	X
Ian Robertson	Non-Partisan Association	56,319	30.99%
Gregory Baker	Non-Partisan Association	55,721	30.67%
Suzanne Scott	Non-Partisan Association	55,486	30.54%
Ken Low	Non-Partisan Association	54,971	30.25%
Rob McDowell	Non-Partisan Association	53,596	29.50%
(I) Tony Tang	Vision Vancouver	49,414	27.19%
Niki Sharma	Vision Vancouver	48,987	26.96%
Cleta Brown	Green Party of Vancouver	47,564	26.18%
Pete Fry	Green Party of Vancouver	46,522	25.60%
Lisa Barrett	Coalition of Progressive Electors	35,234	19.39%
Tim Louis	Coalition of Progressive Electors	31,650	17.42%
RJ Aquino	OneCity Vancouver	30,050	16.54%
Gayle Gavin	Coalition of Progressive Electors	25,547	14.06%
Jennifer O'Keefee	Coalition of Progressive Electors	23,121	12.72%
Sid Chow Tan	Coalition of Progressive Electors	20,948	11.53%
Audrey "sχɬemtəna:t" Siegl	Coalition of Progressive Electors	19,258	10.60%
Keith Higgins	Coalition of Progressive Electors	18,219	10.02%
Mercedes Wong	Vancouver 1st	17,493	9.62%
Wilson Munoz	Coalition of Progressive Electors	13,756	7.57%
Glen Chernen	Cedar Party	9,577	5.27%
Federico Fuoco	Vancouver 1st	9,041	4.98%
Nicholas Chernen	Cedar Party	8,724	4.80%
Lena Ling	Independent	8,197	4.51%
Ferdinad Ramos	Hotel Workers United – Local 40	7,986	4.39%
Jesse Johl	Vancouver 1st	7,953	4.38%
Charlene Gunn	Cedar Party	6,512	3.58%
Elena Murgoci	Vancouver 1st	6,140	3.38%
David Angus	Independent	5,895	3.24%
Jeremy Gustafson	Cedar Party	5,098	2.81%
Grant Fraser	Independent	5,096	2.80%
Milan Kljajic	Vancouver 1st	4,881	2.69%
Anthony Guitar	Independent	4,375	2.41%
Kelly Alm	Independent	4,038	2.22%
Rick Orser	Independent Democratic Electors Alliance	3,548	1.95%
Marc Boyer	Independent	3,329	1.83%
Rajiv Pandey	Independent	3,229	1.78%
Cord Ted Copeland	Independent	3,202	1.76%
Abraham Deocera	Independent	3,160	1.74%
Ludvik Skalicky	Independent	1,797	0.99%

Park Commissioners

Seven commissioners were elected from thirty-one candidates. Of the candidates, twenty-five were affiliated with a political party; six were independent. Two incumbent commissioners sought re-election: one from Vision Vancouver and one from the NPA. Of the elected commissioners, four were from the NPA, two were from the Green Party, and one was from Vision Vancouver.

Candidate Name	Party Affiliation	Votes	% of Votes	Elected
Catherine Evans	Vision Vancouver	64,707	35.61%	X
(I) John Coupar	Non-Partisan Association	62,970	34.65%	X
Casey Crawford	Non-Partisan Association	59,882	32.96%	X
Sarah Kirby-Yung	Non-Partisan Association	56,828	31.27%	X
Erin Shum	Non-Partisan Association	56,762	31.24%	X
Stuart Mackinnon	Green Party of Vancouver	56,406	31.04%	X
Michael Wiebe	Green Party of Vancouver	55,607	30.60%	X
Brent Granby	Vision Vancouver	54,215	29.84%
(I) Trevor Loke	Vision Vancouver	54,199	29.83%
Naveen Girn	Vision Vancouver	51,659	28.43%
Jay Jagpal	Non-Partisan Association	48,909	26.92%
Coree Tull	Vision Vancouver	46,672	25.69%
Stéphane Mouttet	Non-Partisan Association	46,337	25.50%
Sammie Jo Rumbaua	Vision Vancouver	42,863	23.59%
Anita Romaniuk	Coalition of Progressive Electors	33,690	18.54%
Ezra Bloom	Coalition of Progressive Electors	28,217	15.53%
Cease Wyss	Coalition of Progressive Electors	21,249	11.69%
Urooba Jamal	Coalition of Progressive Electors	18,722	10.30%
Richard Wong	Vancouver 1st	18,655	10.27%
Imtiaz Popat	Coalition of Progressive Electors	17,023	9.37%
Brent Hayden	Vancouver 1st	15,599	8.86%
Jamie Lee Hamilton	Independent Democratic Electors Alliance	14,471	7.96%
Jenny De Castris	Independent	10,672	5.87%
Massimo Rossetti	Vancouver 1st	9,729	5.35%
Yogi Johl	Vancouver 1st	9,100	5.01%
Eleanor Hadley	Independent	8,072	4.44%
Roland Clarke	Independent	7,545	4.15%
Earl Sunshine	Independent	6,308	3.47%
Doug Starink	Vancouver 1st	6,275	3.45%
James Buckshon	Independent	5,591	3.08%
Matt Kadioglu	Independent	2,719	1.50%

School Trustees

Nine school trustees were elected out of twenty-eight candidates. Of the candidates, twenty-three were affiliated with a political party, and five were independent. All nine incumbent trustees sought re-election: six from Vision Vancouver (including Allan Wong, who was elected in 2011 as part of COPE, but crossed the floor to Vision Vancouver in 2013),^[16] one from the NPA, and two ex-NPA trustees: Ken Denike, and Sophia Woo, who were running for new party Vancouver 1st after being expelled by the NPA in June 2014.^[17] Vision and the NPA each had four candidates elected, while the Green Party had one.

Candidate Name	Party Affiliation	Votes	% of Votes	Elected
(I) Patti Bacchus	Vision Vancouver	73,551	40.48%	X
Joy Alexander	Vision Vancouver	68,264	37.57%	X
(I) Fraser Ballantyne	Non-Partisan Association	65,659	36.13%	X
(I) Allan Wong	Vision Vancouver	65,342	35.97%	X
(I) Mike Lombardi	Vision Vancouver	61,523	33.86%	X
Penny Noble	Non-Partisan Association	60,964	33.55%	X
Janet Fraser	Green Party of Vancouver	59,218	32.59%	X
Stacy Robertson	Non-Partisan Association	58,314	32.09%	X
Christopher Richardson	Non-Partisan Association	58,081	31.96%	X
(I) Ken Clement	Vision Vancouver	57,826	31.82%
(I) Cherie Payne	Vision Vancouver	55,652	30.63%
Sandy Sharma	Non-Partisan Association	54,063	29.75%
(I) Rob Wynen	Vision Vancouver	52,288	28.78%
Mischa Oak	Green Party of Vancouver	48,539	26.71%
Jane Bouey	Public Education Project	41,757	22.99%
Diana Day	Coalition of Progressive Electors	39,068	21.50%
Gwen Giesbrecht	Public Education Project	35,064	19.30%
(I) Sophia Woo	Vancouver 1st	35,011	19.27%
(I) Ken Denike	Vancouver 1st	31,545	17.36%
Ilana Shecter	Coalition of Progressive Electors	25,538	14.05%
Ralph Fraatz	Coalition of Progressive Electors	23,077	12.70%
Heidi Nagtegaal	Coalition of Progressive Electors	22,126	12.18%
Nanjalah Kombii	Coalition of Progressive Electors	20,703	11.39%
Susan Bhatha	Vancouver 1st	16,345	9.00%
T "Mrs. Doubtfire" Dodds	Independent	9,067	4.99%
Bang Nguyen	Independent	9,025	4.97%
Larry Falls	Independent	8,890	4.89%
Raj Gupta	Independent	8,281	4.56%
Amin Jivraj	Independent	4,555	2.51%

Capital plan questions

The proposed budget for 2015–2018 was $1.085 billion, of which $235 million would be borrowed, requiring electoral approval.^[18]

Voters were asked the following three questions:

1. Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass bylaws between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2018, to borrow an aggregate $58,200,000 for the following purposes?

Parks at $17,950,000
Recreational and exhibition facilities at $40,250,000

Option	Votes	Percentage
Yes	108,382	66.88%
No	53,692	33.12%
Total Votes	162,074	100%

2. Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass bylaws between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2018, to borrow an aggregate $95,700,000 for the following purposes?

Public safety facilities at $22,250,000
Street and bridge infrastructure at $56,450,000
Street lighting, traffic signals, and communications systems at $17,000,000

Option	Votes	Percentage
Yes	128,287	74.42%
No	44,088	25.58%
Total Votes	172,375	100%

3. Are you in favour of Council having the authority, without further assent of the electors, to pass bylaws between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2018, to borrow an aggregate $81,100,000 for the following purposes?

Community facilities at $59,750,000
Civic facilities and infrastructure at $21,350,000

Option	Votes	Percentage
Yes	110,378	68.13%
No	51,628	31.87%
Total Votes	162,006	100%

Voter and party statistics

Voter turnout

Of the 411,741 registered voters, there were 181,707 recorded ballots, putting the voter turnout at 44.13%.^[19] This is an increase from the 34.57% turnout during the previous municipal election in 2011.

Elected percentage by party

	Party	Mayor		Councillors		Park Commissioners		School Trustees		Total candidates
	Party
# Elected	% Elected	# Elected	% Elected	# Elected	% Elected	# Elected	% Elected	# Elected	% Elected
	Green Party of Vancouver	NIL	N/A	1/3	33.3%	2/2	100.0%	1/2	50.0%	4/7	57.1%
	Non-Partisan Association	0/1	0.0%	3/8	37.5%	4/6	66.7%	4/5	80.0%	11/20	55.0%
	Vision Vancouver	1/1	100.0%	6/8	75.0%	1/6	16.7%	4/7	57.1%	12/22	54.5%
	Coalition of Progressive Electors	0/1	0.0%	0/8	0.0%	0/5	0.0%	0/5	0.0%	0/19	0.0%
	Vancouver 1st	NIL	N/A	0/5	0.0%	0/5	0.0%	0/3	0.0%	0/13	0.0%
	Cedar Party	NIL	N/A	0/4	0.0%	NIL	N/A	NIL	N/A	0/4	0.0%
	Independent Democratic Electoral Alliance	NIL	N/A	0/1	0.0%	0/1	0.0%	NIL	N/A	0/2	0.0%
	Public Education Project	NIL	N/A	NIL	N/A	NIL	N/A	0/2	0.0%	0/2	0.0%
	Stop Party	0/1	0.0%	NIL	N/A	NIL	N/A	NIL	N/A	0/1	0.0%
	OneCity Vancouver	NIL	N/A	0/1	0.0%	NIL	N/A	NIL	N/A	0/1	0.0%
	Hotel Workers United – Local 40	NIL	N/A	0/1	0.0%	NIL	N/A	NIL	N/A	0/1	0.0%
	Independent	0/6	0.0%	0/10	0.0%	0/6	0.0%	0/5	0.0%	0/27	0.0%

Seat changes by party

	Party	Mayor & Councillors				Park Commissioners				School Trustees				Total elected
	Party
2011	2014	% Change	% Seats	2011	2014	% Change	% Seats	2011	2014	% Change	% Seats	2011	2014	% Change	% Seats
	Vision Vancouver	8	7	-12.50%	63.64%	5	1	-80.00%	14.29%	5	4	-20.00%	44.44%	18	12	-33.33%	44.44%
	Non-Partisan Association	2	3	+50.00%	27.27%	2	4	+100.00%	57.14%	3	4	+33.33%	44.44%	7	11	+57.14%	40.74%
	Green Party of Vancouver	1	1	±0.00%	9.09%	0	2	N/A	28.57%	0	1	N/A	11.11%	1	4	+300.00%	14.81%
	Coalition of Progressive Electors	0	0	±0.00%	0.00%	0	0	±0.00%	0.00%	1	0	-100.00%	0.00%	1	0	-100.00%	0.00%

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A municipal by-election was held in Vancouver, BC, Canada on October 14, 2017. Unlike in full elections, voters were only asked to elect one councillor and nine school board trustees rather than the full complement of elected municipal positions. The by-election was necessary for two reasons: the resignation of Vision Vancouver Councillor Geoff Meggs from City Council to become BC Premier John Horgan's chief of staff and the desire of the new BC provincial NDP government to reconstitute the Vancouver School Board, whose elected members had all been fired by the previous BC Liberal government.

The 2018 Vancouver municipal election was held on October 20, 2018, the same day as other municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia selected their new municipal governments. Voters elected a mayor, 10 city councillors, 7 park commissioners, and 9 school trustees through plurality-at-large voting. Official registration for all candidates opened on September 4, 2018, and closed on September 14, 2018.

References

↑ "Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson makes election plans official". Vancouver Sun. April 3, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
↑ "COPE slate for Vancouver election includes Meena Wong, eight council candidates". Metro. September 7, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
↑ City of Vancouver, "Run for office in Vancouver," vancouver.ca, Modified July 18, 2014.
↑ BC Local Government Act
↑ City of Vancouver website:"Voting hours extended at 4 out of 117 voting locations"
↑ "Building the team". Vision Vancouver. February 26, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
↑ "Experienced forward-looking Vision Vancouver team strengthened by two new candidates". Vision Vancouver. September 10, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2014.
↑ "Vancouver mayoral race to include former media executive". Globe and Mail. July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
↑ "Green Party of Vancouver announces Council nominees". Vancouver Green Party. March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.
↑ " Georgia Straight, September 7, 2014.
↑ "About the Cedar Party" . Retrieved 5 September 2014.
↑ "OneCity Launches". onecityvancouver.ca. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
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↑ http://www.vancouver1st.com/default.aspx#.VD6w6fldWSo
↑ "Run for office - City of Vancouver". Vancouver . Retrieved October 21, 2014.
↑ Smith, Charlie (December 8, 2013). "Veteran school trustee Allan Wong crosses the floor from COPE to Vision Vancouver". Georgia Straight . Retrieved October 21, 2014.
↑ O'Connor, Cheryl (August 14, 2014). "Ken Denike and Sophia Woo to run under Vancouver First". Vancouver Courier . Retrieved October 21, 2014.
↑ City of Vancouver Capital Plan
↑ Vancouver Municipal Elections 2014 etails CivicInfo BC. Retrieved 2014-11-17

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[1] "Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson makes election plans official". Vancouver Sun. April 3, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.

[2] "COPE slate for Vancouver election includes Meena Wong, eight council candidates". Metro. September 7, 2014. Retrieved September 9, 2014.

[3] City of Vancouver, "Run for office in Vancouver," vancouver.ca, Modified July 18, 2014.

[4] BC Local Government Act

[5] City of Vancouver website:"Voting hours extended at 4 out of 117 voting locations"

[6] "Building the team". Vision Vancouver. February 26, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.

[7] "Experienced forward-looking Vision Vancouver team strengthened by two new candidates". Vision Vancouver. September 10, 2014. Retrieved October 15, 2014.

[lapointe-8] "Vancouver mayoral race to include former media executive". Globe and Mail. July 14, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.

[9] "Green Party of Vancouver announces Council nominees". Vancouver Green Party. March 31, 2014. Retrieved April 22, 2014.

[10] " Georgia Straight, September 7, 2014.

[11] "About the Cedar Party" . Retrieved 5 September 2014.

[12] "OneCity Launches". onecityvancouver.ca. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

[13] ↑

[14] ttp://www.vancouver1st.com/default.aspx#.VD6w6fldWSo

[15] "Run for office - City of Vancouver". Vancouver . Retrieved October 21, 2014.

[16] Smith, Charlie (December 8, 2013). "Veteran school trustee Allan Wong crosses the floor from COPE to Vision Vancouver". Georgia Straight . Retrieved October 21, 2014.

[17] O'Connor, Cheryl (August 14, 2014). "Ken Denike and Sophia Woo to run under Vancouver First". Vancouver Courier . Retrieved October 21, 2014.

[18] City of Vancouver Capital Plan

[19] Vancouver Municipal Elections 2014 etails CivicInfo BC. Retrieved 2014-11-17