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By-Election Results: Sean Orr and Lucy Maloney win seats

VPSN — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:43:07 +0000

Congratulations to Sean Orr and Lucy Maloney – winners in yesterday’s City of Vancouver by-election. We’re looking forward to working with you on public space and city-building issues!

Curious to learn more about Sean and Lucy’s perspectives on public space? You can check out their responses to our By-election Candidate Survey by following the links below.

A big shout out to *everyone* who put their hat in the ring for yesterday’s municipal contest. It takes a lot of time, effort, and courage to run for office . Thank you for stepping up and enriching our local democracy with your contributions.

Image: Partial results for the By-election. You can find the full results for all 13 candidates on the City’s webpage.

VPSN 2025 By-Election Candidate Survey (Updated Mar 24)

VPSN — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 08:37:39 +0000

A by-election is being held in the city on April 5, 2025, and two seats at the Council table are up for grabs!

For the past several elections, the Vancouver Public Space Network (VPSN) has worked to help voters better understand the perspectives of candidates running for office. For the upcoming by-election, we’ve prepared a short candidate survey focused on public space matters. The questions cover a variety of topics, some more general in nature, some more closely related to current issues. We’ve shared the survey with all the candidates, sharing news via email, social media channels or both.

We invited each candidate to share their responses so that public space enthusiasts and other Vancouverites can get to know them better.

Questions are intentionally open-ended. We told candidates that their answers could be as long or as short as they like, and that they can include examples or precedents if they wish. We’ll publish the answers in their entirety on our website within 48 hours of receiving them. Let’s see what they have to say about public space in the city!

Responses Received (as of March 24, 2025):

We’ve now posted answers from Guy Dubé, Karin Litzcke, Lucy Maloney, Jeanifer Decena, Sean Orr, Colleen Hardwick, Theodore Abbott, and Annette Reilly

Follow this link to our survey page and read what the candidates have to say about public space!

Other Candidates:

We received word from Charles Ling that he would be provide responses shortly.
We are still waiting to hear from Rollergirl, Ralph Kaisers, Jaime Stein and Gerry McGuire.

Creative Mornings – By-Election Candidate Survey

VPSN — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 02:52:44 +0000

Our pal Mark Busse (host of Creative Mornings Vancouver, and fab MC for our Last Candidate Standing event back in 2014) has recently sent a survey out to all of the candidates running for a Council seat as part of the upcoming by-election. One of the questions concerns public space:

“Have you supported public space activations in Vancouver, and will you in the future? (i.e. closures of 800 Robson and Bute/Robson for public space plazas, laneway activations, etc.)”

All nine candidates answered – though some with a bit more detail than others. You can read the answers to this and other questions on Mark’s blog. Once you’ve done that, please remember to cast your ballot! Advance voting takes place on October 10, and Election Day is October 14.

:: Creative Mornings – By-election Council Candidates Survey
:: How to Vote – City of Vancouver By-election webpage