2025 Vancouver City Council by-election

2025 Vancouver City Council by-election

April 5, 2025

2 vacant seats for Vancouver City Council
Turnout67,962 (15.09%)
  First party Second party Third party
 
COPE
ONE
Candidate Sean Orr Lucy Maloney Colleen Hardwick
Party COPE OneCity TEAM
Popular vote 34,448 33,732 17,352
Percentage 50.69% 49.63% 25.53%
Percentage of votes cast 25.92% 25.38% 13.05%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Green
TEAM
ABC
Candidate Annette Reilly Theodore Abbott Jamie Stein
Party Green TEAM ABC Vancouver
Popular vote 15,045 11,581 9,267
Percentage 22.14% 17.04% 13.64%
Percentage of votes cast 11.32% 8.71% 6.97%

  Seventh party
 
ABC
Candidate Ralph Kaisers
Party ABC Vancouver
Popular vote 8,915
Percentage 13.12%
Percentage of votes cast 6.71%

Election as a Voronoi diagram

Councillors before election

Elected councillors

Seat change summary
Party Seats +/–
ABC Vancouver 7 0
COPE 1 +1
OneCity 1 0
Independent 1 0
Green 1 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.

A by-election was held on April 5, 2025, in Vancouver, British Columbia, to fill two vacant seats on Vancouver City Council, following the resignations of Christine Boyle and Adriane Carr.

The by-election was notable due to record voter turnout for a Vancouver municipal by-election. In a rebuke of incumbent mayor Ken Sim's ABC Vancouver, the two vacant seats were won by progressive candidates. OneCity Vancouver's Lucy Maloney retained a seat for the party, while COPE's Sean Orr gained a seat for the party and helped it return to city council for the first time since 2018. The Green Party of Vancouver failed to keep a second seat on council.