2025 Vancouver municipal by-election

2025 Vancouver municipal by-election
Vancouver
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2 vacant seats for Vancouver City Council
Party Current seats
ABC Vancouver

8
Green

1
OneCity

0
Vacant

2
Incumbent councillors

A by-election will be held in 2025 in Vancouver, British Columbia, to fill two vacant seats on Vancouver City Council, following the resignations of Christine Boyle and Adriane Carr.[1] The final voting day has been tentatively scheduled for April 5, 2025, if Vancouver City Council endorses a city staff recommendation to appoint a chief election officer on January 21.[2][3]

Background

Christine Boyle

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.[4][5]

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.[6][7] 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.[8]

Adriane Carr

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.[9] 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.[10] 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.

References

Notes
  1. ^ Tentative election date. Has not yet been confirmed.
Sources
  1. ^ Little, Simon; Thibault, Alissa (January 14, 2025). "Vancouver to face double byelection with Adriane Carr retiring". Global News. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  2. ^ Chan, Kenneth (January 14, 2025). "Vancouver City Council by-election to fill two councillor seats planned for early April 2025". Daily Hive. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  3. ^ "Local Government By-election 2025" (PDF). City of Vancouver. January 14, 2025. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
  4. ^ Smith, Charlie (June 16, 2018). "OneCity nominates Christine Boyle and Brandon Yan to run for Vancouver city council". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  5. ^ Fumano, Dan (October 21, 2018). "Vancouver election: New Mayor Kennedy Stewart prepares to lead mixed council". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved October 22, 2018.
  6. ^ Pandey-Kanaan, Aastha (April 4, 2024). "Christine Boyle elected as BCNDP candidate for Vancouver-Little Mountain riding". CityNews Vancouver. Retrieved April 4, 2024.
  7. ^ "Christine Boyle elected in Vancouver-Little Mountain". CTV News. October 19, 2024. Retrieved October 20, 2024.
  8. ^ Fumano, Dan (October 30, 2024). "Vancouver councillor and MLA-elect Christine Boyle confirms timeline for departure". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
  9. ^ "Election summary - Election 2011 - City of Vancouver Elections". City of Vancouver. Archived from the original on December 16, 2019. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
  10. ^ Chan, Kenneth (January 15, 2025). "Adriane Carr resigns, sparking by-election to fill two Vancouver city councillor seats". Daily Hive. Retrieved January 21, 2025.