B.C. Votes 2022: Metro Vancouver and Sea-to-Sky election results
New mayors have been elected in Port Moody, New Westminster and West Vancouver
At least three cities in Metro Vancouver have new mayors after municipal polls closed on 21 races for mayor in Metro Vancouver and many more in the Sea-to-Sky region, along with school boards, park boards and dozens of council positions.
Megan Lahti was elected mayor in Port Moody, where a key issue is the development of a transit hub on a nine-hectare piece of land.
Lahti, who was first elected to Port Moody's city council in 1996 defeated Steve Milani — who was first elected to council in 2018 — by fewer than 1,000 votes.
All of the elected bodies will have to work together on big issues affecting the Lower Mainland and B.C. as a whole, whether that's transit, housing affordability or the impacts of climate change.
Tri-Cities
Lahti's council is made up of Samantha Agtarap, Diana Dilworth, Kyla Knowles, Haven Lurbiecki, Callan Morrison and David Stuart.
In Coquitlam, incumbent mayoral candidate Richard Stewart was re-elected. The eight city council seats were won by Craig Hodge, Teri Towner, Steve Kim, Brent Asmundson, Matt Djonlic, Trish Mandewo, Robert Mazzarolo and Dennis Marsden.
In Port Coquitlam, Mayor Brad West had already been acclaimed to another term as mayor because nobody contested the seat.
Nancy McCurrach, Glenn Pollock, Darrell Penner, Steve Darling and Dean Washington were been re-elected as city councillors and are joined by council newcomer Paige Petriw.
The Village of Anmore re-elected incumbent mayoral candidate John McEwen, while all four council candidates had already been acclaimed to their positions.
In Belcarra, incumbent mayoral candidate Jamie Ross defeated Colm Cole, and is joined by city councillors Janet Ruzycki, Carolina Clark, Joe Elworthy and Lisa WIlder.
Burnaby
Mayor Mike Hurley was acclaimed, but it was a crowded council race, with 27 people running for eight positions.
The Burnaby Citizens Association elected six council candidates: Alison Gu, James Wang, Pietro Calendino, Sav Dhaliwal, Maita Santiago and Daniel Tetrault. The remaining council seats are filled by Joe Keithley and Richard Lee.
New Westminster
Patrick Johnstone, who previously served on council, was elected mayor of New Westminster with 6,676 votes. Ken Armstrong came in second place with 5,227 votes and Chuck Puchmayr in third with 3,912 votes.
Johnstone's party Community First, secured four council seats with Ruby Campbell, Jaimie McEvoy, Tasha Henderson and Nadine Nakagawa elected.
Armstrong's New Westminster Progressives have two seats on council with Paul Minhas and Daniel Fontaine elected.
Richmond
Incumbent Malcolm Brodie won a historic seventh term in office as the mayor of Richmond with over 67 per cent of votes cast.
He was first elected mayor of B.C.'s fourth-largest city in a 2001 byelection and then again in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2014 and 2018, making him the longest-serving mayor in the city's history.
Former solicitor general Kash Heed won a seat on Richmond's city council.
The remaining seven councillors for the city of Richmond are Chak Au, Carol Day, Bill McNulty, Alexa Loo, Michael Wolfe, Andy Hobbs, Laura Gillanders.
Delta
Incumbent George Harvie, who ran with the Achieving for Delta Party, won the three-way mayoral race in Delta.
The city's six councillors are Alicia Guichon, Dylan Kruger, Daniel Boisvert, Jennifer Johal, Rod Binder and Jessie Dosanjh.
White Rock
Former councillor Megan Knight defeated incumbent Darryl Walker to become mayor of White Rock.
She will work with six councillors: Christopher Trevelyan, Ernie Klassen, David Chesney, Elaine Cheung, Bill Lawrence and MIchele Partridge.
Status quo in North Vancouver
Linda Buchanan was re-elected as mayor of the City of North Vancouver over former councillor Guy Heywood, who finished just 401 votes behind Buchanan in 2018. The six people elected to council are Tony Valente, Don Bell, Angela Girard, Shervin Shahriari, Jessica McIlroy and Holly Back.
In the District of North Vancouver, incumbent Mike Little was narrowly re-elected with barely 300 votes more than two-term councillor Matthew Bond. His council is Jordan Back, Lisa Muri, Jim Hanson, Catherine Pope, Herman Mah and Betty Forbes.
West Vancouver
Mark Sager defeated incumbent Mary-Ann Booth in the race for mayor of West Vancouver, in another rematch. Sager was mayor from 1990 to 1996 and lost to Booth in 2018 by just 21 votes.
The six council seats are filled by Linda Watt, Peter Lambur, Sharon Thompson, Scott Snider, Christine Cassidy and Nora Gambioli.
Lions Bay and Bowen Island
In Lions Bay, Ken Berry defeated incumbent Ron McLaughlin by 18 votes.
Incumbents Neville Abbott and Norm Barmeier were re-elected to council along with Michael Broughton and Marcus Reuter.
On Bowen Island, Andrew Leonard won the mayoral race against former councillor Maureen Nicholson and John Turner. Judith Gedye, Tim Wake, Sue Ellen Fast, John Saunders, Alex Jurgensen and Alison Morse were elected to council.
Squamish and Whistler
In Squamish, former councillor Armand Hurford won the three-way mayoral race over Deanna Lewis-Kalkalilh and Mike Young with 67 per cent of vote.
The six Squamish council seats are filled by Jenna Stoner, Eric Andersen, Lauren Greenlaw, Chris Pettingill, Andrew Hamilton and John French.
In Whistler, incumbent Jack Crompton was re-elected with 67 per cent of the votes, beating Marcus Culver and Brian Walker. The six council positions are filled by Cathy Jewett, Jen Ford, Arthur De Jong, Ralph Forsyth, Jessie Morden and Jeff Murl.
With files from Justin McElroy and Andrew Kurjata
