Vancouver’s two new left-leaning councillors had strong support across most of the city, while candidates from the ruling ABC party, who placed a distant sixth and seventh, were weak even in traditionally centre-right neighbourhoods, according to a Postmedia analysis of the results of the April 5 municipal byelection. Read More
Sean Orr topped the polls at 14 locations, most of them on Vancouver’s east side
Sean Orr topped the polls at 14 locations, most of them on Vancouver’s east side
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Vancouver’s two new left-leaning councillors had strong support across most of the city, while candidates from the ruling ABC party, who placed a distant sixth and seventh, were weak even in traditionally centre-right neighbourhoods, according to a Postmedia analysis of the results of the April 5 municipal byelection.
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COPE’s Sean Orr and OneCity’s Lucy Maloney handily trounced 11 challengers in a race widely seen as a referendum on Mayor Ken Sim’s administration.
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A review of the number of votes cast for candidates at each of the 25 voting locations in the city reveals the widespread strength of support for COPE and OneCity, contrasting the weakness of ABC and a few vote-rich pockets for TEAM.
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Orr was the top vote-getter with 34,448 votes, getting the most votes at 14 polling stations, most of them in the city’s east side plus False Creek Community Centre on Granville Island, Marpole-Oakridge in the city’s southwest, and the West End in downtown Vancouver.
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Maloney, who received 33,732 votes, got the most ballots at seven polling stations, including west side ones like Vancouver City Hall, Olympic Village (Creekside Community Centre), Riley Park (Hillcrest and Douglas Park community centres) and Yaletown (Roundhouse Community Centre).
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Orr and Maloney alternated first and second place positions at 21 polling stations, winning at least two-thirds of votes cast at six of them.
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Third-placer Colleen Hardwick and fellow TEAM candidate Theodore Abbott did well on the west side and along the Broadway corridor. Hardwick, a former councillor and mayoral candidate, and Abbott campaigned heavily on density concerns and revisiting the Broadway plan.
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They won the top two spots at Dunbar Community Centre, Kerrisdale, Kitsilano and West Point Grey but did not manage to get more than 50 per cent of total votes cast at those four locations.
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Three of those sites — Kits, Kerrisdale and Dunbar — were among the top five sites with the highest voter turnouts. The other two busiest sites — West End and Trout Lake — went to Orr.
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In contrast, the two ABC candidates had a dismal showing across the city. Ralph Kaisers and Jamie Stein — whose combined votes added to roughly half of Orr’s — polled best with 774 for Kaisers in Kerrisdale and 811 votes there for Stein. But neither won Kerrisdale or any other poll in the city.
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Kaisers, the head of the Vancouver police union, had fewer than 200 votes in 12 polls and Stein, a tech business leader, fewer than 200 votes in 10 polls.
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Voters often use byelections to send a message and it’s not rare for incumbent parties to get hammered in the process, said Mario Canseco of polling firm Research Co.