1999 Vancouver municipal election

The city of Vancouver, Canada, held municipal elections on November 20, 1999. Canadian citizens who were over 18 years of age at the time of the vote, and had been a resident of Vancouver for the previous 30 days and a resident of B.C. for the previous six months, were able to vote for candidates in four races that were presented on one ballot.^[1]

Overall, 97 candidates filed for election, but two dropped out. There were 95 candidates at election time. There were 256,361 registered voters, and 94,271 votes cast for a voter turnout of 36.77 per cent.

The ballot elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. Each elector could vote for as many candidates as there were open seats (e.g., an elector could vote for ten or fewer councillors). Two borrowing questions were on the ballot, and both passed by a margin of 70 per cent or more.

In an effort to prevent a repeat of the 1996 election that saw many joke candidates register because there was no nomination filing fee, city council adopted a bylaw on Sept. 15,1999 requiring candidates to pay a nominal $100 fee.^[2] The bylaw had the intended effect, but at least two people, going by the names "T. Raax" and "Dr. Evil", did put up the fees and consequently ran as mayoral candidates.

The Green Party and the Coalition of Progressive Electors mounted a combined slate of candidates but ran a single mayoral candidate.

Elections to Vancouver City Council

Overall council results

All figures include votes cast for both mayor and councillors but not school and park board. * Denotes incumbent.

Party		Party leader and/or mayoral candidate	# of candidates	Council Seats				Total Popular Vote
Party		Party leader and/or mayoral candidate	# of candidates	1996	Current	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	NPA	Philip Owen	10	10		8	-2
	COPE	David Cadman	5	0		2	+2
	Green	No leader	3	2	-
	CIVIC	Jamie Lee Hamilton	4	-	-	-
	Independent			-	-	-
Total						10	-		100.0	-

Mayoralty election

One to be elected.

	Party	Votes	%
Philip Owen *	NPA	51,085	54.19
David Cadman	COPE	33,506	35.54
Man-Kit Kwan	Independent	2,213
Dr. Evil	Independent	1,434
Court Ray Caldwell	Independent	784
Gord D. Waddell	Independent	764
Bill Ritchie	Independent	721
Corinna I. vanGerwen	NC	607
T. Raax	Independent	462
John (Eh) McGoldrick	Independent	398
Shawn Ryan	Independent	352

Councillors election

Ten to be elected.

	Party	Votes	%
Jennifer Clarke	NPA	42,815	45.52
Lynne Kennedy *	NPA	39,597	42.00
Daniel Lee *	NPA	39,001	41.37
Gordon H. Price *	NPA	38,746	41.10
George Puil *	NPA	38,551	40.89
Don Lee *	NPA	37,164	39.42
Sandy McCormick	NPA	35,252	37.39
Sam C. Sullivan *	NPA	34,858	36.98
Fred Bass	COPE	33,156	35.17
Tim Louis	COPE	32,862	34.86
Nancy A. Chiavario	Independent	29,800
Janet C. Leduc	NPA	29,306
Raymond P. Louie	COPE	27,788
Ann Livingston	Green	27,425
Bev Ballantyne	Green	26,954
Andrea Rolls	COPE	26,544
Bud Osborn	COPE	25,244
Baldev Dhugga	NPA	26,025
Sid Chow Ming Fai Tan	Green	22,827
Alan Herbert	Independent	16,987
Wendy Turner	Independent	14,096
Ye Chu	Independent	13,770
Jamie Lee Hamilton	CIVIC	10,895
Vincent Wong	Independent	10,397
Helen Spiegelman	Independent	10,229
Brian Buchanan	Independent	9,423
James Wu	CA	9,202
Michelle Jasmine Chang	Independent	8,885
Pal B.McDonell	Independent	8,783
Frances Wasserlein	Independent	8,326
Ken Bregman	Independent	7,544
Herman Hui	Independent	6,939
Laurie McDonald	CIVIC	6,813
Eligio Cabrera	CA	5,377
Iain MacFarlane	Independent	5,087
Greg Reid	Independent	4891
Kevin Moore	CA	4,577
Irene Louise Schmidt	CIVIC	4,260
Jun Antonio	Independent	3,968
Tyler G. Ducharme	CIVIC	3,905
Sindi Addorisio	Independent	3,138
Michael C. McLean	Independent	2,766
Ryan (France) Warawa	Independent	2,570

Elections to the Vancouver Parks Board

Seven to be elected.

	Party	Votes	%
Allan De Genova *	NPA	37,143	39.40
Dianne Ledingham	NPA	36,041	38.23
Duncan Wilson *	NPA	35,388	37.64
Laura McDiarmid *	NPA	35,480	37.64
Clarence Hansen	NPA	34,093	36.16
Christopher Richardson	NPA	32,322	34.29
Roslyn Mairi Cassells	Green	31,694	33.62
Colin Metcalfe	NPA	31,468
Anita Romaniuk	COPE	31,110
Michael Horn	Green	31,055
Loretta Woodcock	COPE	31,038
Dale Hoffman	Green	30,096
Dan Rogers	COPE	30,661
Munna Prasad	COPE	29,218
Gabriel Yong	Independent	17,718
Wendy Y.L. Lau	Independent	16,253
Alan P. Fetherstonhaugh	Independent	12,648
Jack Reid	Independent	9,787
Anne Pepper	Independent	8,526
Walter Schultz	Independent	6,169
H. Rand Irwin	Independent	5,433
Zdenky H.S. Burkhardt	Independent	4,863

Election to the Vancouver School Board

Ten to be elected.

	Party	Votes	%
Allan Wong	COPE	42,565	44.85
Allen Blakey	COPE	42,254	44.52
Bill Yuen *	NPA	40,895	43.09
Barbara Buchanan *	NPA	39,937	42.08
John Cheng *	NPA	39,791	41.92
Bill Brown *	NPA	39,758	41.89
Ted Hunt *	NPA	39,484	41.60
Ken Denike *	NPA	38,755	40.83
Adrienne Montani	COPE	38,584	40.65
Jane Bouey	COPE	38,385
Noel Herron	COPE	37,867
Mary Salvino	NPA	37,777
Kelly Elizabeth White	Green	36,344
John R. Robertson	NPA	35,082
Robert Kiyoshk	COPE	31,843
Vijay Singhera	NPA	31,272
Tea Buechner	Green	30,840
Hans-Joachim Grages	Green	28,847
Thomas E. Deak	Independent	11,395

References

^ http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/election99/eligible.htm Who is eligible to vote
^ http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/newsreleases1999/NRvote99nomination2.htm City of Vancouver Statement, Nomination Deposit Required For All Candidates

External links

[1] ttp://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/election99/eligible.htm Who is eligible to vote

[2] ttp://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/newsreleases1999/NRvote99nomination2.htm City of Vancouver Statement, Nomination Deposit Required For All Candidates

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