Politics

Voter turnout rates for civic elections in Vancouver have hovered around a dismal 30 per cent on average. By comparison, federal elections during the same time period have consistently brought in double that number.

Gunter Ludewig has big ideas for the City of Vancouver

ensuring that the needs and wants of a generation are present in policy development can enhance the sense of community that our councils are supposed to foster every day.

A four-year-old Facebook video has come back to haunt Port Moody mayoral candidate Rob Vagramov's election campaign. In the 2014 clip, Vagramov filmed himself shotgunning a beer with a homeless person outside a SkyTrain station in downtown Vancouver.

This election, Vancouver voters will be faced with a daunting ballot listing 158 candidates running for mayor, council, school board and park board. This quick video explains it all.

Independent mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart launched a challenge Tuesday to other mayoral candidates competing to become Vancouver’s next mayor to disclose donors to their campaigns before advance voting begins Oct. 10.

As election campaigns kick off across British Columbia its largest city is facing a race unlike any other, experts say. A proliferation of new parties and independent candidates are crowding the Vancouver race in a widespread turnover of the existing council.

With one month to go until election day, the absence of a Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate appears to have largely benefited independent Kennedy Stewart, at least according to the most recent polling results.

With one month to go before the municipal elections, many mayoral candidates are claiming they can fix the housing crisis without explaining exactly how they will do it – and that's "dangerous," according to outgoing mayors and councillors.

A pair of school board candidates are challenging the fact that the local elections office allowed a council candidate to include his Chinese name on the upcoming ballot.