MayorTry casting your ballot for mayor
Mark one name under the current rule, or rank the candidates under a different one.
Mark one name under the current rule, or rank the candidates under a different one. See how the whole city comes out under each, then cast a ballot of your own.
Under these conditions, Pete Fry would win under either system.But how much of the city is behind the win under each rule?
Mark one name
36%of voters helped elect the winner
7 in 20 voters marked the winner. The other 13 marked somebody else, and their votes elected no one.
Rank the field
46%of voters helped elect the winner
9 in 20 ballots ended on the winner, 3 of them after their first choice was knocked out. 5 in 20 ran out of names first, which is how the winner reaches 60% of the ballots still counting at the end.
- helped elect the winner
- moved on to a later choice
- backed someone else
- ran out of names
- Each figure ≈ 5% of voters
Modelled from polling, not a forecast. Details below.
Cast a vote for mayor
Vote under each way of voting, with the ballot each one uses. Then see what your ballot did.
The mayor, counted two ways
Vancouver elects a mayor on the same day as the council, from the same voters. One name is marked under the current rule. Under a ranked rule the same voters order the field, and the lowest candidate is dropped and their ballots passed on until someone leads.
Modelled from polling, not a forecast and not a count of real ballots. It also models the field as it stood earlier in September: William Azaroff and Stephanie Allen have since withdrawn. Voters were given 2 preferences, which is why a quarter of ballots run out before the end.
Seeded from polling by Justason Market Intelligence, August 31 – September 11, 2026, n = 607, sponsored by Fair Voting BC. Read the poll
- Pete Fry
- Ken Sim
- William Azaroff
- Colleen Hardwick
- Stephanie Allen
- Kareem Allam
- Rebecca Bligh
Bars = share of all ballots castHatched = ballots that ran out of names
Mark one name
- Pete Fryelected35.7%
- Ken Sim27.8%
- William Azaroff11.7%
- Colleen Hardwick8.7%
- Kareem Allam7.2%
- Stephanie Allen4.8%
- Rebecca Bligh4.1%
Every voter marks a single candidate. The most marks wins.
Rank the field
- Round 1
Pete Fry 30.6% · Ken Sim 27.0% · out: Rebecca Bligh
- Round 20.2% run out
Pete Fry 32.3% · Ken Sim 27.6% · out: Kareem Allam
- Round 32.6% run out
Pete Fry 33.3% · Ken Sim 28.8% · out: Stephanie Allen
- Round 45.2% run out
Pete Fry 37.7% · Ken Sim 29.0% · out: Colleen Hardwick
- Round 514.0% run out
Pete Fry 40.7% · Ken Sim 29.9% · out: William Azaroff
- Round 624.4% run out
Pete Fry 45.5%elected · Ken Sim 30.0%
Drop the lowest candidate, pass their ballots to the next name on each one, and repeat. Every share below is a share of all ballots cast, so the rounds add up to less and less as ballots run out of names.
What to notice
The winner takes 35.7% of the votes cast, so roughly two voters in three preferred somebody else.
The winner finishes on 45.5% of all ballots cast, which is 60.3% of the ballots still counting. The gap is the 24.4% that ran out of names.
Both rules elect the same candidate, and they describe the win very differently: 35.7% of votes cast under the current rule against 60.3% of the ballots still counting at the end of the ranked one. Same voters, same winner, a very different claim to a mandate.