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
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.

Candidate 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.

Candidate 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.

Candidate 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.

Candidate 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

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