Same voters, two ways to vote, two different councils
Seeded from polling by Justason Market Intelligence, August 31 – September 11, 2026, n = 607, sponsored by Fair Voting BC. Read the poll
- COPE
- Green
- ABC
- OneCity
- Liberals
- TEAM
- Vote VanVV
Icons = seats wonShaded = share of approvals
The ten candidates with the most approvals win, city-wide.
What to notice
ABC drew the largest share of approvals of any party, 24%, and won one seat in ten. Its nine candidates split that support between them, while the four COPE ran shared a smaller pile and finished higher. Under this system running a full slate can cost a party seats.
The same ballots, counted so that a party's support is not thinned by the number of candidates it runs. ABC goes from one seat to three, closer to its 24% of approvals, and the Liberals take their first. COPE and the Greens, who gained most from the split, come back to two seats each.
Vote and seat share details
ABC24.3%
ALBV 110% (−1.4)PAV 330% (+0.6)
OneCity18.9%
ALBV 220% (+0.1)PAV 220% (+0.1)
COPE17.6%
ALBV 440% (+2.2)PAV 220% (+0.2)
Green15.5%
ALBV 330% (+1.4)PAV 220% (+0.4)
Liberals10.9%
ALBV 00% (−1.1)PAV 110% (−0.1)
TEAM8.4%
ALBV 00% (−0.8)PAV 00% (−0.8)
Vote Van4.4%
ALBV 00% (−0.4)PAV 00% (−0.4)
extra seats
ALBV 3.8PAV 1.4
Each cell: seats won, that party’s share of the council, and the difference from a proportional share in brackets.
“Extra seats” is how many seats would have to change hands for the council to match the parties’ shares of the ballots.
Counted from the 360.876 ballots that marked at least one council candidate, City of Vancouver, 2022.
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 It also models the field as it stood earlier in September: William Azaroff and Stephanie Allen have since withdrawn.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
Pete Fry wins with 35.7% of the votes cast, so roughly two voters in three preferred somebody else.
Pete Fry 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 Pete Fry, 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.