2005 Vancouver municipal election

2005 Vancouver municipal election

November 19, 2005 (2005-11-19)
11 seats in Vancouver City Council
First party Second party Third party   Leader Sam Sullivan Jim Green David Cadman (de facto) Party NPA Vision COPE Leader since 2005 2005 2005 Leader's seat Mayor Ran for Mayor (lost) Councillor Last election 2 seats, 30.01% N/A (4 at dissolution) 9 seats (5 at dissolution), 57.79% Seats won 6 4 1 Seat change 4 4 Popular vote 61,543 57,796 N/A Percentage 47.34% 44.45% N/A Swing 17.33% 13.34% (from COPE 2002 results) N/A
Mayor before election Larry Campbell COPE Elected mayor Sam Sullivan NPA

The city of Vancouver, along with the rest of British Columbia's municipalities, held its municipal elections on November 19, 2005. Canadian citizens who were over 18 years of age at the time of the vote, and had been a resident of Vancouver for the past 30 days and a resident of BC for the past six months, were able to vote for candidates in four races that were presented on one ballot. In addition, Canadian citizen non-resident property owners were eligible to vote.

The ballot elects one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. Each elector may vote for as many candidates as there are open seats (e.g., an elector may vote for ten or fewer councillors).

Elections to city council

Main article: Vancouver City Council

Overall council results

All figures include votes cast for both mayor and councillors

Party		Party leader or mayoral candidate	# of candidates	Council seats				Total popular vote
				2002	At dissolution	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	NPA	Sam Sullivan	11	2	2	6	+4
	Vision	Jim Green	6	-	4	4	0
	COPE	David Cadman	5	9	5	1	-4
	Work Less	Ben West	1	-	-	-
	Interest	Austin Spencer	1	-	-	-
	Green	none	1	-	-
	Nude Garden	Patrick Britten	1	-	-	-
	Independent		30	-	-	-
Total			56	11	11	11	-		100.0	-

Mayoral election

One to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Sam Sullivan	NPA	61543	47.34
	Jim Green	Vision	57796	44.45
	James Green	Independent	4273	3.29
	Ben West	Work Less	1907	1.47
	Scott Yee	Independent	688	0.53
	Austin Spencer	Interest	456	0.35
	Pedro Mora	Independent	443	0.34
	Gölök Zoltán Buday	Independent	384	0.30
	John Landry Gray	Independent	355	0.27
	Mike Hansen	Independent	304	0.23
	Darrell Zimmerman	Independent	283	0.22
	Frank D'Agostino	Independent	275	0.21
	Ian W. Simpson	Independent	246	0.19
	Arthur Crossman	Independent	219	0.17
	Grant Chancey	Independent	198	0.15
	Ray Power	Independent	171	0.13
	Peter Raymond Haskell	Independent	144	0.11
	Malcolm G. MacLeod	Independent	140	0.11
	Joe Hatoum	Independent	96	0.07
	Eliot Esti	Independent	90	0.07
Total			130,011	100.0

Councillor election

Ten to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Suzanne Anton	NPA	60586
	Peter Ladner*	NPA	58142
	Raymond Louie*	Vision	52795
	Kim Capri	NPA	52719
	Tim Stevenson*	Vision	51527
	David Cadman*	COPE	51155
	George Chow	Vision	51107
	Elizabeth Ball	NPA	50865
	Heather Deal	Vision	50624
	BC Lee	NPA	50047
	Ronald Leung	NPA	48430
	Fred Bass*	COPE	48248
	Colleen Hardwick Nystedt	NPA	46737
	Valerie Jenkinson	NPA	46077
	Heather Harrison	Vision	45719
	Kathi Thompson	NPA	45314
	Tim Louis*	COPE	43349
	Ellen Woodsworth*	COPE	42724
	Anne Roberts*	COPE	41739
	Patrick Maliha	NPA	39165
	Ann Livingston	Green	27168
	Kevin Potvin	Independent	10806
	Michelle Jasmine Chang	Independent	9016
	Jamie Lee Hamilton	Independent	8153
	Patrick Britten	Nude Garden	6595
	Lea Johnson	Independent	6253
	Beverley Ballantyne	Independent	6153
	John W. Angus	Independent	5728
	Wendythirteen	Independent	4247
	John Patrick Gordon	Independent	3887
	Phyllis Loke	Independent	3562
	Marc Boyer	Independent	3388
	Greg Aulin	Independent	3335
	Don Briere	Independent	3125
	David Wilson Applegath	Independent	2718
	Steve Wansleeben	Independent	2478
Total			1083681	100.0

Elections to the park board

Seven to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Allan De Genova*	NPA	59961
	Heather Holden	NPA	57229
	Ian Robertson	NPA	53700
	Marty Zlotnik	NPA	51363
	Korina Houghton	NPA	46309
	Loretta Woodcock*	COPE	45659
	Spencer Herbert	COPE	44562
	Sheryl Williamson-Harms	NPA	43898
	Eric Whiteway	NPA	43851
	Mel Lehan	COPE	43684
	Anita Romaniuk*	COPE	43078
	Jenn McGinn	COPE	39738
	Omar Kassis	COPE	38551
	Stuart Mackinnon	Green	37824
	Tracey Jastinder Mann	Green	33384
	Bill Grant	Independent	10819
	Juliet V. Andalis	Independent	9966
	Earl P. Sunshine	Independent	8610
	Ashok Sarkar	Independent	4791
Total				100.0

Elections to the school board

Nine to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Carol Gibson	NPA	55356
	Don Lee	NPA	54868
	Shirley M. Wong	NPA	54259
	Ken Denike	NPA	52908
	Allen Blakey*	COPE	51444
	Allan Wong*	COPE	50380
	Eleanor Gregory	NPA	49473
	Sharon Gregson	COPE	48293
	Clarence Hansen	NPA	48162
	Jane Bouey*	COPE	47876
	Angela Kenyon*	COPE	46458
	Noel Herron*	COPE	46072
	Michelle Mollineaux	NPA	45940
	Andrea Reimer*	Green	44476
	Kevin Millsip*	COPE	43527
	Rucku Bhandal	NPA	43288
	Conrad Lew	COPE	42452
	Todd Gnissios	NPA	41341
	Herman Hui	Independent	10966
	Leo Jack Ferry	Independent	8537
	Bang Nguyen	Independent	7525
Total				100.0

See also

• 2008 Vancouver municipal election

References

External links

• City of Vancouver elections site
• Profiles of all candidates
• Buday, Gölök Zoltán on Our Campaigns
• Green, James C (Carl) on Our Campaigns
• Politics1 Canada (Beta) includes Some Candidate Info
• Vancouver Charter Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Vancouver School Board (School District #39) Archived 2007-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
• UBC Media Map of entire news coverage
• Electoral Fraud Comes to Vancouver One view of the controversy surrounding the Jim/James Green Issue
• City website enlightens voter about long list of colourful candidates
• Vancouver Votes by Sean Condon ; Only Magazine; 2005^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• Sing Tao Article On 2005 Election
• CFIB, Independent Business Survey. (PDF)
• The Vancouverite: The City Is Voting In 13 Days
• Vancouver Ramblings.
• Wannabe mayors talk sports and recreation By Bob Mackin
• Man of God, flower shop owner, linebacker walk into an election... By Mike Howell-Staff writer
• Kitsilano Forum
• Ian King (TCW News Editor); Wrote The Now Broken Linked Article in the TCW "It Ain't Being Indy
• Think City Vancouver Survey Results (PDF)
• Think City
• Who will you cast your vote for? Q