Green Party of Vancouver candidate and incumbent City Councillor Pete Fry defeated incumbent Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim in the city’s Oct. 17 election to become the next mayor.
With 148 of 149 polls reporting as of early morning on Oct. 18, Fry received 89,706 of the 189,703 ballots counted, or 47 percent. Sim, who has been mayor since the 2022 election, received 63,072 votes, or 33 percent, coming in second. Six other candidates ran in the race, with former City Councillor Colleen Hardwick coming in a distant third with 16,415 votes as of early morning, or 8.7 percent.
Fry celebrated his win with his mother, long-time Liberal MP Hedy Fry, onstage at a campaign party in Vancouver. He said he was elected because he put values ahead of partisan issues and that he would take an idealistic approach during his tenure as mayor….