With municipal elections less than a month away, a total of 119 people are vying to represent Vancouver on the city's council, school board, and parks board.
The nomination period for candidates closed on Oct. 10, with the largest number since 2002 (also 119).
In the running for the mayor's race are a total of 10 candidates. In addition to front runners like incumbent mayor Gregor Robertson of Vision Vancouver, Kirk LaPointe of the Non Partisan Association (NPA), Meena Wong of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE), and lawyer and former Olympian Bob Kasting, are host of lesser-known candidates like Mynard Aubichon of the Stop Party, Mike Hansen, Jeff Hill, Cherryse Kaur Kaiser, Tim Ly, and Colin Shandler.
In the council race, a total of 49 candidates are running for the 10 available seats, including all 10 incumbent councillors: Adrienne Carr (Green), Elizabeth Ball (NPA), George Affleck (NPA), Heather Deal (Vision), Tim Stevenson (Vision), Tony Tang (Vision), Raymond Louie (Vision), Geoff Meggs (Vision), Kerry Jang (Vision), and Andrea Reimer (Vision).
In the race for school board, 29 candidates are in the running for nine trustee positions, while 31 people are vying for seven parks board positions.
In addition to the 27 elected position up for grabs in the year's municipal election will be the City’s 2015-18 Capital Plan. The city is asking voters to approve $235 million of borrowing for the capital plan, which includes $58 million in parks spending, $81 million for civic and community facilities, and $95 million for public safety and public works projects. In all, the capital plan totals $1.1 billion.
Advance voting begins Nov. 4, with election day set for Saturday, Nov. 15.
