1999 Vancouver municipal election

The city of Vancouver, Canada, held municipal elections on November 20, 1999. Canadian citizens who were over 18 years of age at the time of the vote, and had been a resident of Vancouver for the previous 30 days and a resident of B.C. for the previous six months, were able to vote for candidates in four races that were presented on one ballot.

Overall, 97 candidates filed for election, but two dropped out. There were 95 candidates at election time. There were 256,361 registered voters, and 94,271 votes cast for a voter turnout of 36.77 per cent.

The ballot elected one mayor, 10 councillors, nine school board trustees and seven park board commissioners. Each elector could vote for as many candidates as there were open seats (e.g., an elector could vote for ten or fewer councillors). Two borrowing questions were on the ballot, and both passed by a margin of 70 per cent or more.

In an effort to prevent a repeat of the 1996 election that saw many joke candidates register because there was no nomination filing fee, city council adopted a bylaw on Sept. 15,1999 requiring candidates to pay a nominal $100 fee. The bylaw had the intended effect, but at least two people, going by the names "T. Raax" and "Dr. Evil", did put up the fees and consequently ran as mayoral candidates.

The Green Party and the Coalition of Progressive Electors mounted a combined slate of candidates but ran a single mayoral candidate.

Elections to Vancouver City Council

Main article: Vancouver City Council

Overall council results

All figures include votes cast for both mayor and councillors but not school and park board. * Denotes incumbent.

Party		Party leader and/or mayoral candidate	# of candidates	Council Seats				Total Popular Vote
				1996	Current	Elected	Change	#	%	Change
	NPA	Philip Owen	10	10		8	-2
	COPE	David Cadman	5	0		2	+2
	Green	No leader	3	2	-
	CIVIC	Jamie Lee Hamilton	4	-	-	-
	Independent			-	-	-
Total						10	-		100.0	-

Mayoralty election

One to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Philip Owen *	NPA	51,085	54.19
	David Cadman	COPE	33,506	35.54
	Man-Kit Kwan	Independent	2,213
	Dr. Evil	Independent	1,434
	Court Ray Caldwell	Independent	784
	Gord D. Waddell	Independent	764
	Bill Ritchie	Independent	721
	Corinna I. vanGerwen	NC	607
	T. Raax	Independent	462
	John (Eh) McGoldrick	Independent	398
	Shawn Ryan	Independent	352

Councillors election

Ten to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Jennifer Clarke	NPA	42,815	45.52
	Lynne Kennedy *	NPA	39,597	42.00
	Daniel Lee *	NPA	39,001	41.37
	Gordon H. Price *	NPA	38,746	41.10
	George Puil *	NPA	38,551	40.89
	Don Lee *	NPA	37,164	39.42
	Sandy McCormick	NPA	35,252	37.39
	Sam C. Sullivan *	NPA	34,858	36.98
	Fred Bass	COPE	33,156	35.17
	Tim Louis	COPE	32,862	34.86
	Nancy A. Chiavario	Independent	29,800
	Janet C. Leduc	NPA	29,306
	Raymond P. Louie	COPE	27,788
	Ann Livingston	Green	27,425
	Bev Ballantyne	Green	26,954
	Andrea Rolls	COPE	26,544
	Bud Osborn	COPE	25,244
	Baldev Dhugga	NPA	26,025
	Sid Chow Ming Fai Tan	Green	22,827
	Alan Herbert	Independent	16,987
	Wendy Turner	Independent	14,096
	Ye Chu	Independent	13,770
	Jamie Lee Hamilton	CIVIC	10,895
	Vincent Wong	Independent	10,397
	Helen Spiegelman	Independent	10,229
	Brian Buchanan	Independent	9,423
	James Wu	CA	9,202
	Michelle Jasmine Chang	Independent	8,885
	Pal B.McDonell	Independent	8,783
	Frances Wasserlein	Independent	8,326
	Ken Bregman	Independent	7,544
	Herman Hui	Independent	6,939
	Laurie McDonald	CIVIC	6,813
	Eligio Cabrera	CA	5,377
	Iain MacFarlane	Independent	5,087
	Greg Reid	Independent	4891
	Kevin Moore	CA	4,577
	Irene Louise Schmidt	CIVIC	4,260
	Jun Antonio	Independent	3,968
	Tyler G. Ducharme	CIVIC	3,905
	Sindi Addorisio	Independent	3,138
	Michael C. McLean	Independent	2,766
	Ryan (France) Warawa	Independent	2,570

Elections to the Vancouver Parks Board

Main article: Vancouver Park Board

Seven to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Allan De Genova *	NPA	37,143	39.40
	Dianne Ledingham	NPA	36,041	38.23
	Duncan Wilson *	NPA	35,388	37.64
	Laura McDiarmid *	NPA	35,480	37.64
	Clarence Hansen	NPA	34,093	36.16
	Christopher Richardson	NPA	32,322	34.29
	Roslyn Mairi Cassells	Green	31,694	33.62
	Colin Metcalfe	NPA	31,468
	Anita Romaniuk	COPE	31,110
	Michael Horn	Green	31,055
	Loretta Woodcock	COPE	31,038
	Dale Hoffman	Green	30,096
	Dan Rogers	COPE	30,661
	Munna Prasad	COPE	29,218
	Gabriel Yong	Independent	17,718
	Wendy Y.L. Lau	Independent	16,253
	Alan P. Fetherstonhaugh	Independent	12,648
	Jack Reid	Independent	9,787
	Anne Pepper	Independent	8,526
	Walter Schultz	Independent	6,169
	H. Rand Irwin	Independent	5,433
	Zdenky H.S. Burkhardt	Independent	4,863

Election to the Vancouver School Board

Main article: Vancouver School Board

Ten to be elected.

Candidate		Party	Votes	%
	Allan Wong	COPE	42,565	44.85
	Allen Blakey	COPE	42,254	44.52
	Bill Yuen *	NPA	40,895	43.09
	Barbara Buchanan *	NPA	39,937	42.08
	John Cheng *	NPA	39,791	41.92
	Bill Brown *	NPA	39,758	41.89
	Ted Hunt *	NPA	39,484	41.60
	Ken Denike *	NPA	38,755	40.83
	Adrienne Montani	COPE	38,584	40.65
	Jane Bouey	COPE	38,385
	Noel Herron	COPE	37,867
	Mary Salvino	NPA	37,777
	Kelly Elizabeth White	Green	36,344
	John R. Robertson	NPA	35,082
	Robert Kiyoshk	COPE	31,843
	Vijay Singhera	NPA	31,272
	Tea Buechner	Green	30,840
	Hans-Joachim Grages	Green	28,847
	Thomas E. Deak	Independent	11,395

External links

• City of Vancouver, Unofficial Results
• City of Vancouver, Official Results
• City of Vancouver Election Results - 1999 by category
• City of Vancouver Statement, Nomination Deposit Required For All Candidates
• Vancouver charter Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
• Vancouver School Board (School District #39) Archived 2007-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
• Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation