2017 Vancouver municipal by-election

A municipal by-election was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on October 14, 2017. One empty seat on city council and all the seats on the Vancouver school board were filled.

2017 Vancouver municipal by-election
October 14, 2017 (2017-10-14)
  • 1 seat on the Vancouver City Council
  • 9 seats on Vancouver School Board
Turnout11.0% 32.4 pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
NPA
Candidate Hector Bremner Jean Swanson Pete Fry
Party NPA Independent Green
Seats before 3 N/A 1
Seat change 1
Popular vote 13,372 10,263 9,759
Percentage 27.83 21.36 20.31
  Fourth party Fifth party
 
ONECITY
VISION
Candidate Judy Graves Diego Cardona
Party OneCity Vision
Seats before 0 7
Seat change 1
Popular vote 6,327 5,411
Percentage 13.17 11.26

These elections were held outside the normal four-year schedule. 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 provincial NDP government to reconstitute the Vancouver School Board, whose elected members had all been fired by the previous BC Liberal government.

The school board election marked the first time a OneCity candidate was elected to any position in Vancouver's elected government.

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