2005 British Columbia municipal elections explained

The Canadian province of British Columbia held municipal elections on November 19, 2005. Voters in each of BC's 157 municipalities elected mayors and councillors, and rural voters elected directors for their regional district electoral area. School boards and other specialized public bodies (such as the Vancouver Park Board) have also been elected, and various local referendums are held concurrently.

Political parties and slates are a common feature of governance in some municipalities in the Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria areas, though the rest of the province's cities and towns resemble the majority of Canada in lacking overt partisan alliances. The City of Vancouver, as well as its neighbour Richmond in particular, has an entrenched and polarized party system unique in the country.

Metro Vancouver

Burnaby

CandidatePartyVote%
Derek Corrigan (inc.) 17,662 54.0
Andrew Stewart Team Burnaby 13,951 42.6
Tom Tao Independent 1,120 3.4

Coquitlam

CandidateVote%
7,970 44.6
Jon D.H. Kingsbury (inc.) 7,918 44.4
Harry Warren 1,962 10.6

Delta

CandidateVote%
Lois E. Jackson (inc.) 12,181 51.8
Bruce McDonald 11,343 48.2

Langley (city)

CandidateVote%
Elected
Dean Copeland

Langley (township)

CandidateVote%
Kurt Alberts (inc.) 7,694 62.7
Tom Ouellette 4,577 37.3

Maple Ridge

CandidateVote%
Gordon Robson 6,990 48.8
Kathy Morse (inc.) 3,680 25.7
Bill Hartley 3,558 24.8
William Perry 99 0.7

New Westminster

CandidateVote%
Wayne Wright (inc.) 5,814
Casey Cook 4,499

North Vancouver (city)

CandidateVote%
Darrell R. Mussatto 2,687 40.2
Rod Clark 2,198 32.8
Barbara Ann Sharp (inc.) 1,738 26.0
Bill Tomlinson 69 1.0

North Vancouver (district)

CandidateVote%
Richard Walton 6,838 44.6
Jim Cuthbert 4,488 29.3
Dave Sadler 940 6.1
David Dixon 869 5.7

Pitt Meadows

CandidateVote%
Don MacLean (inc.) 2,104 75.7
Shawn Stevens 676 24.3

Port Coquitlam

CandidateVote%
Scott Young (inc.) 6,003 89.0
Patrick Alambets 744 11.0

Richmond

CandidateVote%
Malcolm Brodie (inc.) 21,139 74.7
Michael Wolfe 7,165 25.3

Surrey

Mayor

CandidateVote%
45,981 55.3
Doug McCallum (inc.) 35,558 40.3
Joe Pal 456 0.5
Joginder Singh Randhawa 448 0.5
Brady Warren Halverson 403 0.5
Jag Bhandari 327 0.4

Councillors

2005 Surrey election, Councillors (eight elected)
CandidateTotal votes% of total votes
Bob Bose39,3137.10
Judy Villeneuve37,0886.70
Judy Higginbotham35,7056.45
Marvin Hunt31,7175.73
Barbara Steele31,2225.64
Tom Gill25,8694.67
Linda Heppner25,2604.56
Mary Martin24,9944.51
Cliff Annable24,8244.48
Sargy Chima21,6083.90
Rosemary Zelinka21,5363.89
Art Hildebrant16,7713.03
Barinder Rasode16,2022.93
Sheena Wilkie15,2192.75
Stephanie DeRapp15,2082.75
Ted Allen15,1802.74
Jim King14,0122.53
Amrik Singh Mahil13,8212.50
Jim McMurtry13,2382.39
Bill Stilwell11,8482.14
Rick Hart11,6782.11
David Evans9,5421.72
Jim Bester7,4941.35
Bob Martin7,3001.32
Barbara Saunders6,0831.10
Gary A. Hoffman5,7621.04
Rupinder S. Bhinder5,5080.99
Edward Rogers5,2370.95
Gurmit Bedi4,8770.88
Michael Chen4,8700.88
Mona Jagga4,8620.88
Bajinder Mann4,6830.85
Tammy Dao4,1240.74
Dalip Bhatia3,7160.67
Kheng-Lee Ooi (Huang)3,3620.61
Rob Terris3,0730.56
Pierre Rovtar2,6300.48
Ijaz Ahmed Chatta2,3360.42
Sada Maharaj2,1870.40
Joe Doserro2,1090.38
Syed Bokhari1,5440.28
Total valid votes553,612100.00

Electors could vote for eight candidates. Percentages are determined in relation to the total number of votes.

Vancouver

Sam Sullivan defeated Jim Green, and 18 other candidates, in the race for mayor.

West Vancouver

CandidateVote%
7,659 64.9
Ron Wood (inc.) 4,139 35.1

White Rock

CandidateVote%
Judy Forster (inc.) 2,806 46.1
2,075 34.1
Margaret Woods 1,210 19.9

Capital Region

Central Saanich

CandidateVote%
Jack Mar 2,099 54.3
Allison Habkirk (inc.) 1,768 45.7

Colwood

CandidateVote%
Jody Twa (inc.) ?
Bambi Fernando ?
Terry Robinson ?

Esquimalt

CandidateVote%
Chris Clement 1,649 46.8
Ruth Layne 960 27.3
Darwin A. Robinson (inc.) 912 25.9

Langford

CandidateVote%
Stewart Young (inc.) 2,605 75.7
Robert Fraser 836 24.3

North Saanich

CandidateVote%
Ted Daly (inc.) 2,259 54.7
Patrick Godfrey 1,874 45.3

Victoria

CandidateVote%
Alan Lowe (inc.) 8,690 51.9
Ben Isitt 7,298 43.6
Gregory Hartnell 381 2.3
Diana Smardon 246 1.5
Georgia Jones 120 0.7

Up-Island

Campbell River

CandidateVote%
Roger McDonell 2,185 30.0
Bill Matthews 1,681 23.1
Lynn Nash (inc.) 1,598 21.9
Dave Jackson 1,342 18.4
Daniel Rabu 485 6.7

Comox

CandidateVote%
Jim Brass (inc.) 2,814 73.1
Dennis Strand 1,035 26.9

Courtenay

CandidateVote%
Starr Winchester (inc.) 3,028 80.6
M.W. Schell 728 19.4

Nanaimo

CandidateVote%
Gary Richard Korpan (inc.) 6,330 30.5
John Ruttan 4,928 23.8
Jolyon Brown 4,888 23.6
Bill King 1,998 9.6
Dawn Tyndall 1,797 8.7
Angela Negrin 347 1.7
Simon Schachner 306 1.5
Adrian de Jong 143 0.7

North Cowichan

CandidateVote%
Jon Lefebure (inc.) 2,808 56.8
Tom Walker 1,971 39.8
Peter Rudwaleit 169 3.4

Port Alberni

CandidateVote%
Ken McRae (inc.) ?
Jen Fisher-Bradley ?
James Dominic King ?

Sunshine Coast and Sea to Sky

Powell River

CandidateVote%
Stewart Alsgard (inc.) 1,910 51.1
David Gabelhouse 1,398 37.4
Jeff Mah 237 6.3
Leon Houle 194 5.2

Squamish

CandidateVote%
Ian Sutherland (inc.) 2,261 54.0
Terrill Patterson 1,925 46.0

Fraser Valley

Abbotsford

CandidateVote%
George F. Ferguson 12,124 46.1
Mary Reeves (inc.) 10,888 41.4
Sid Gould 1,867 7.1
John Constible 1,222 4.6
Wes Pidgeon 218 0.8

Mission

CandidateVote%
4,154 67.9
Mel Norder 1,543 25.2
Alan Podgorenko 256 4.2
Tim Felger 161 2.6

Thompson, Shuswap and Cariboo

Kamloops

CandidateVote%
11,727 56.7
Pete Backus 4,525 21.9
Al McNair 4,416 21.4

Salmon Arm

CandidateVote%
Marty Bootsma 1,210 26.1
Nancy Cooper 1,207 26.0
Greg Husband 1,008 21.7
Garrett Norman Wynne 570 12.3
Eugene Dionne 442 9.5
Aram Schneider 202 4.4

Williams Lake

CandidateVote%
Scott Nelson 1109 28.9
Kerry Cook 1056 27.5
Elmer Theissen 868 22.6
Deb Demare 809 21.1

Okanagan

Kelowna

CandidateVote%
Sharon Shepherd 13,706 53.1
Walter Gray (inc.) 11,453 44.4
Stephen May 378 1.5
Andrew Uitvlugt 153 0.6
Kim Ouellette 115 0.4

Penticton

CandidateVote%
Jake Kimberley 3,651 37.0
David Perry (inc.) 3,145 31.8
Mike Pearce 3,082 31.2

Vernon

CandidateVote%
Wayne Lippert 2,984 31.6
Peter Armstrong 2,392 25.3
Dean Skoreyko 2,054 21.7
Derek Hall 2,016 21.3

Kootenays

Cranbrook

Peace River

Dawson Creek

CandidateVote%
Calvin Kruk 1,412 48.9
Wayne Dahlen (inc.) 1,051 36.4
Gary Loiselle 422 14.6

Fort St. John

CandidateVote%
1,534 45.4
Steve Thorlakson (inc.) 939 27.8
Dave Bodnar 657 19.4
Matthew Johnson 248 7.3

Central Interior

Prince George

CandidateVote%
Colin Kinsley (inc.) 8,650 49.6
Dan Rogers 8,008 45.9
Trent Derrick 571 3.3
Tyler Doerksen 160 0.9
Nathan Paul Prince 62 0.4

Northwest

Prince Rupert

CandidateVote%
Herb Pond (inc.) 3,377 83.0
Gloria Rendell 693 17.0

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