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The mayor of Vancouver is the head and chief executive officer of Vancouver, British Columbia, who is elected for a four-year term. The 41st and current officeholder is Ken Sim, who has held office since November 7, 2022.
Sim was elected mayor of Vancouver, running under the ABC Vancouver party banner, on October 15, 2022. He is the first challenger to defeat a sitting mayor of Vancouver since 1980, when Mike Harcourt upset incumbent Jack Volrich. [12] Sim is the first Chinese Canadian elected Mayor of Vancouver. [13] [14]
Vancouver City Council is the governing body of Vancouver, British Columbia. The council consists of a mayor and ten councillors elected to serve a four-year term. Monthly, a deputy mayor is appointed from among the councillors. The current mayor is Ken Sim, who leads the party ABC Vancouver. City council meetings are held in Vancouver City Hall.
The 2022 Vancouver municipal election was held on October 15, 2022, [2] [3] the same day as the municipal elections held throughout British Columbia. Voters elected the mayor of Vancouver by first-past-the-post. Ten city councillors, 7 park board commissioners, and 9 school board trustees were elected through plurality at-large voting. [3]
Vancouver: British Columbia: 662,248 November 7, 2022: Leader of ABC Vancouver NPA candidate for mayor in 2018: List: Patrick Brown: Brampton: Ontario 656,480 December 1, 2018: Barrie City Councillor (2000-2006) Conservative MP for Barrie (2006-2015) Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (2015-2018)
[2] [3] In 2014, McEnerny-Ogle was elected to the Vancouver City Council. The first woman to be elected mayor of Vancouver, she was elected to succeed Tim Leavitt in November 2017 for a term beginning January 1, 2018. [4] [5] [6] She was endorsed in the race by The Columbian, which noted her prior term on the city council since 2014. [7]
The legislation, passed in 1953, supersedes the Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1921 and grants the city more and different powers than other communities possess under BC's Municipalities Act. The city is governed by the 10-member city council, a nine-member school board, and a seven-member park board, all elected for four-year terms.
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