# 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
### Overall council results

All figures include votes cast for both mayor and councillors but not school and park board. * Denotes incumbent.
| Party | Party | Party leader and/or mayoral candidate | # of candidates | Council Seats | Council Seats | Council Seats | Council Seats | Total Popular Vote | Total Popular Vote | Total Popular Vote |
| Party | Party | Party leader and/or mayoral candidate | # of candidates | 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 | Independent | | - | - | - | | | | |
| Total | Total | 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

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

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 | |