Who's running in Vancouver this fall, where they stand on cost of living, housing, data centres, environment, taxes, health and safety, and what controversies they carry. Every claim links to its source. Where nothing public turned up, the page says so.
Which election do you want to look at? Pick one to begin.
About this race. Vancouver elects its mayor, council, park board and school board on October 17, 2026, one week before the provincial vote. Eight people are on the mayoral ballot. COPE's Stephanie Allen and OneCity's William Azaroff withdrew in early September and both endorsed Pete Fry.
The city controls housing approvals, zoning, property tax, local streets, parks, police budget and fire. It doesn't run health care, social assistance or income tax, so some issues look different at this level.
Each card gives a one-line summary and three stated positions in the candidate's own framing. Open "More information" for the full bio, every issue, controversies and sources. Candidates appear in ballot order.
Published polls on the mayoral race, with their dates and methods. The two disagree sharply, so read them with care.
Each mayoral candidate's stated position on one issue at a time, as of October 7, 2026. Candidates appear in ballot order.
Legal disputes, money and campaign-finance questions, policy reversals and conduct issues in the mayoral race, drawn from news reporting and official records. Allegations that haven't been tested in court are marked as such.
Vancouver elects everyone at large: every voter picks from the whole city list. You can vote for up to 10 councillors, 7 park board commissioners and 9 school trustees, and you don't have to use all your votes. Parties run slates, but you can mix candidates from different parties.
Below the candidates, your city ballot has five questions. The three borrowing questions are binding: if one fails, the city can't borrow that money for 2027–2030. The two plebiscite questions are advisory, so council doesn't have to act on the result.
Ballot. The eight mayoral names come from Daily Hive's list of all 130 Vancouver candidates in ballot order. Confirm at vancouver.ca.
Positions. From candidates' and parties' own material and news coverage, including the Side Street Vancouver party platform guide (Oct 3) and Allen Pike's 2026 election guide (updated Oct 3). Pike's guide is an individual's commentary, so we only take factual claims from it.
Polls. Two polls disagree sharply. Both are shown with their dates and methods so you can judge them yourself.
The full source list for both elections is under BC provincial, Sources & method.
Campaign money. Corporate and union donations to municipal and provincial campaigns have been banned in B.C. since 2017, and individual donations are capped. So "funding from large companies" mostly shows up as candidates' past employers or third-party advertising, not direct donations.
Latest polls: Conservatives lead narrowly. Angus Reid (Oct 1–3): Conservative 48%, NDP 43%, Green 7% of decided voters; Ipsos (Sept 25–29): 42 / 40 / 10, with 27% undecided. Best premier: Doerkson 36%, Eby 33%. [Angus Reid, Oct 5 · Ipsos, Oct 1] Across B.C., 335 candidates are running: Conservatives 93, NDP 92, Greens 73, CentreBC 35, OneBC 33.
Which elections are on? Premier David Eby called a snap provincial election on Sept 22, 2026, for October 24. There is no federal election scheduled: the last general election was April 28, 2025, so the federal tab lists the MPs who currently represent Vancouver.
Most local challengers have published little beyond a bio. On a candidate card, "Own record" means things that person said or did; "Party platform" is what their party has promised. A party promise does not mean the candidate has personally argued for it.
What each provincial party has promised, and the reasoning it gave, as of October 6, 2026. Platforms are still being released, so a "no public position found" can change during the campaign.
Legal disputes, money and campaign-finance questions, policy reversals and conduct issues involving Vancouver candidates and the provincial parties, drawn from news reporting and official records. Allegations that haven't been tested in court are marked as such. An empty record here means we found nothing reported, not that a candidate has been vetted.
No federal election is scheduled for Vancouver. Under the fixed-date law, the next general election would fall in October 2029 unless one is called early (our inference from the April 2025 date). These are the MPs currently representing the City of Vancouver, with the stances we could source.
Candidate list. Cross-checked across three trackers that compile Elections BC nominations (BC Ballot, updated Oct 4; bcpoli candidate list; Wikipedia). All three agree on the 49 names below. Nominations closed Oct 3, 2026. Confirm your riding and ballot at elections.bc.ca.
Positions. Party stances come from party releases as compiled by BC Ballot's platform tracker and from news reports. Candidate notes come from party candidate pages, legislature records, Wikipedia and news coverage. Quotes are reproduced as reported.
Neutrality. Parties and candidates appear in alphabetical order. Criticism of a candidate by an opponent is labelled as such. We did not rate or score anyone.
Gaps. "No public position found" means our search of party sites and news up to Oct 6, 2026 turned up nothing. It doesn't mean the candidate has no view.
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