British Columbia municipal elections, 2011
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Municipal elections will be held in the Canadian province of British Columbia on November 19. Races will be held in all municipalities and regional district electoral areas.

Selected mayoral races are as follows:

Abbotsford
Abbotsford, British Columbia
Abbotsford is a Canadian city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, adjacent to Greater Vancouver. It is the fifth largest municipality in British Columbia, home to 123,864 people . Its Census Metropolitan Area, which includes the District of Mission, is the 23rd largest in Canada,...

Candidate Vote %
Bruce Banman  13,387
Meghann Coughlan 12,694
Travis Daleman 2,449
Gerda Peachey 1,619
George Peary (X) 1,443

Burnaby
Burnaby, British Columbia
Burnaby is a city in British Columbia, Canada, located immediately to the east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in British Columbia by population, surpassed only by nearby Surrey and Vancouver....

Candidate Party Vote %
Derek Corrigan
Derek Corrigan
Derek Richard Corrigan is the current mayor of Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.Corrigan is a graduate of Vancouver's Sir Charles Tupper Secondary School and has lived in Burnaby since 1977, the same year he obtained a law degree from the University of British Columbia. Prior to law school he...

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Burnaby Citizens Association  25,035
Tom Tao TEAM Burnaby  5,450
Allen Hutton Independent 1,600
Sylvia Gung Independent 850

Campbell River
Campbell River, British Columbia
Campbell River is a coastal city in British Columbia on the east coast of Vancouver Island at the south end of Discovery Passage, which lies along the important coastal Inside Passage shipping route...

Candidate Vote %
Walter Jakeway  2,741
Roy Grant 2,702
Ziggy Stewart 1,228
Michael Rabu 582

Castlegar
Castlegar, British Columbia
Castlegar is the second largest city in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia, Canada. It is located within the Selkirk Mountains at the confluence of the Kootenay and Columbia Rivers. It is a regional trade and transportation centre, with a local economy fueled by forestry, mining and tourism...

Candidate Vote %
Lawrence Chernoff (X) 1,020
Gordon Zaitsoff 786

Central Saanich

Candidate Vote %
Alastair Bryson  2,753
Christopher Graham 1,827

Chilliwack
Chilliwack, British Columbia
Chilliwack is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia. It is a predominantly agricultural community with an estimated population of 80,000 people. Chilliwack is the second largest city in the Fraser Valley Regional District after Abbotsford. The city is surrounded by mountains and...

Candidate Vote %
Sharon Gaetz (X) Acclaimed

Coldstream
Coldstream, British Columbia
Coldstream is a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada, located at the northern end of Kalamalka Lake in the Okanagan Valley. Incorporated on December 21, 1906, Coldstream celebrated its centennial in 2006. The municipality is directly southeast of Vernon and is considered part of...

Candidate Vote %
Jim Garlick (X) 1,578
Dave Hrabchuk 829

Colwood
Colwood, British Columbia
Colwood is a city located on Vancouver Island to the southwest of Victoria, capital of British Columbia. Colwood was incorporated in 1985 and has a population of approximately 15,000 people. Colwood lies within the boundaries of the Victoria Census Metropolitan area or Capital Regional District,...

Candidate Vote %
Carol Hamilton  1,412
Brian Tucknott 1,042
Jason Nault 621

Comox
Comox, British Columbia
Comox is a town of 12,000 people located on a small peninsula in the Georgia Strait on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The warm dry summers, mild winters, fertile soil and abundant sea life attracted First Nations thousands of years ago, who called the area kw’umuxws...

Candidate Vote %
Paul Ives  2,163
Bernie Poole 2,109

Coquitlam
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Coquitlam is a city in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Coquitlam is mainly a suburban city, and is one of the 21 municipalities comprising Metro Vancouver. According to the 2007 Canadian Census, it is the 5th-largest city in British Columbia...

Candidate Vote %
Richard Stewart
Richard Stewart
Richard Stewart is the current mayor for the city of Coquitlam, British Columbia. Stewart was elected to Coquitlam City Council in 2005. He is bilingual ....

 (X)
10,050
Barrie Lynch 7,591

Delta
Delta, British Columbia
Delta is a district municipality in British Columbia, and forms part of Metro Vancouver. Located south of Richmond, it is bordered by the Fraser River to the north, the United States to the south and the city of Surrey to the east...

Candidate Party Vote %
Lois Jackson
Lois Jackson
Lois E. Jackson is the mayor of Delta, British Columbia. She was first elected to Delta Municipal Council in 1972. She was the first woman to hold office in 1973 as an Alderman, later changed to Councillor....

 
Delta Independent Voters Association  10,044 43.17
Krista Engelland One Delta  6,158 26.47
Heather King Independent 5,346 22.98
John Meech Independent 1,720 7.39

Kamloops

Candidate Vote %
Peter Milobar (X)
Brian Alexander
Gordon Chow
Dieter Dudy

Kelowna
Kelowna
Kelowna is a city on Okanagan Lake in the Okanagan Valley, in the southern interior of British Columbia, Canada. Its name derives from a Okanagan language term for "grizzly bear"...

Candidate Vote %
Sharon Shepherd (X)
Ken Chung
Cal Condy
Walter Gray
Kim Ouellette

Langley Township
Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)
The Township of Langley is a district municipality immediately east of the City of Surrey in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It extends south from the Fraser River to the U.S. border, and west of the City of Abbotsford...

Candidate Party Vote %
Rick Green (X) Vote Langley Now 
Jack Froese Independent
Mel Kositsky Independent

Maple Ridge
Maple Ridge, British Columbia
Maple Ridge is a District Municipality in British Columbia, located in the northeastern section of Metro Vancouver. Maple Ridge has a population of approximately 68,949.-History:...

Candidate Vote %
Ernie Daykin (X)
Craig Ruthven

Mission
Mission, British Columbia
Mission, the core of which was formerly known as Mission City, is a district municipality in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is situated on the north bank of the Fraser River overlooking the City of Abbotsford and with that city is part of the Central Fraser Valley. Mission is the...

Candidate Party Vote %
James Atebe
James Atebe
James Atebe is mayor of Mission, British Columbia, Canada,, a municipality east of Vancouver in the British Columbia region known as the Fraser Valley. A native of Ekerenyo, a village in the North Mugirango Constituency of Kenya, he was first elected mayor in 2005, after serving as a member of the...

 (X)
Independent
Ted Adlem Citizens for responsible municipal government 
Mike Gildersleeve Independent
Daniel Williamson Independent

Nanaimo

Candidate Vote %
John Ruttan
John Ruttan
-Background:Ruttan was born in Anchorage, Alaska and later moved with his parents to Victoria, British Columbia. He was educated at Monterey Elementary School, Oak Bay Secondary School and Victoria College. He has lived in the Nanaimo area for over 45 years....

 (X)
Dan Didio
Roger McKinnon
Jim Routledge

New Westminster

Candidate Vote %
Wayne Wright (X)
James Crosty
Vance McFadyen
François Nantel

North Vancouver (city)
North Vancouver, British Columbia (city)
The City of North Vancouver is a waterfront municipality on the north shore of Burrard Inlet, directly across from Vancouver, British Columbia. It is the smallest of the three North Shore municipalities, and the most urbanized as well...

Candidate Vote %
Darrell Mussatto
Darrell Mussatto
Darrell Roger Mussatto is serving his second term as mayor of the City of North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.Mussatto was first elected as a councillor in North Vancouver in 1993, and served four consecutive terms before being elected mayor. He is also the city's representative on the Metro...

 (X)
Kit Nicholls
Ron Polly
George Pringle

North Vancouver District
North Vancouver, British Columbia (district municipality)
The District of North Vancouver is a district municipality in British Columbia and is part of the GVRD. It surrounds the City of North Vancouver on three sides.-Geography:The District of North Vancouver is separated from Vancouver by Burrard Inlet...

Candidate Vote %
Richard Walton (X)
Marjorie Goodman

Penticton
Penticton, British Columbia
Penticton is a city in the Okanagan Valley of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, situated between Okanagan and Skaha Lakes. Its 2010 population was 37,721 .-Name origin:...

Candidate Vote %
Dan Ashton (X)
Julius Bloomfield
Jukka Laurio
Vic Powell
Katie Robinson

Port Coquitlam

Candidate Party Vote %
Greg Moore (X) Independent
William Issa Canada Fire Safety Corporation 
Patrick Alambets Independent

Prince George
Prince George, British Columbia
Prince George, with a population of 71,030 , is the largest city in northern British Columbia, Canada, and is known as "BC's Northern Capital"...

Candidate Vote %
Dan Rogers
Dan Rogers
Dan Rogers is a Canadian politician, currently the mayor of Prince George, British Columbia. He previously served as a Councillor for Prince George until his resignation to run for the mayoral position.-References:* -External links:...

 (X)
Bruce Fader
Eugene Fetterly
Shari Green
Alex Huber
Brandon Lewis

Richmond
Richmond, British Columbia
Richmond is a coastal city, incorporated in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Part of Metro Vancouver, its neighbouring communities are Vancouver and Burnaby to the north, New Westminster to the east, and Delta to the south, while the Strait of Georgia forms its western border...

Candidate Vote %
Malcolm Brodie
Malcolm Brodie
Malcolm Brodie is the mayor of Richmond, the fourth largest city in British Columbia.A lawyer by profession, Brodie was elected to City Council in 1996 and again in 1999, as part of the centre-right Richmond Non-Partisan Association . After the resignation of mayor Greg Halsey-Brandt in 2001,...

 (X)
Richard Lee

Saanich
Saanich, British Columbia
The District of Saanich is a municipality on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. It is located north of the provincial capital, Victoria. It has a population of 108,265 people, making it the most populous municipality on Vancouver Island, and the seventh most populous in the province...

Candidate Vote %
Frank Leonard (X)
David Cubberley
David Cubberley
David Cubberley is a Canadian politician, active in municipal, regional and provincial issues since 1990. He is a prominent advocate of cycling trail networks for commuters and recreation, protection of farmland, sustainable transportation and awareness of Lyme Disease...

 
David Shebib

Surrey
Surrey, British Columbia
Surrey is a city in the province of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member municipality of Metro Vancouver, the governing body of the Greater Vancouver Regional District...

Candidate Party Vote %
Dianne Watts
Dianne Watts
Dianne L. Watts is the mayor of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and was elected in 2005 to this office as the city's first female mayor.She ran as an independent candidate, defeating incumbent Doug McCallum at the polls on November 19, 2005, who had been her political ally as recently as 2003...

 (X)
Surrey First
Surrey First
Surrey First is a civic political organization in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Surrey First is a non-partisan civic organization, members of which were elected to a majority on Surrey City Council in 2008.- Formation :...

 
Vikram Bajwa Independent
Ross Buchanan Independent
Touraj Ghanbar-Zadeh Independent
Clifford Inimgba Independent
Shan Rana Independent
Joginder Ranhawa Independent
Deanna Welters Independent


The main opposition party, the Surrey Civic Coalition will not be running a mayoral candidate against Watts. They will be running a slate for city council, however.

Vernon
Vernon, British Columbia
Vernon is a city in the south-central region of British Columbia, Canada. Named after Forbes George Vernon, a former MLA of British Columbia who helped found the famed Coldstream Ranch, the City of Vernon was incorporated on December 30, 1892. The City of Vernon has a population of 35,944 , while...

Candidate Vote %
Wayne Lippert (X)
Patrick Davies
Robert Sawatzky

Victoria
Victoria, British Columbia
Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...

Candidate Party Vote %
Dean Fortin
Dean Fortin
Dean Fortin is the current mayor of Victoria, British Columbia.Fortin has a B.A., LLB and M Ed . He was director of the Burnside Gorge Community Centre for 17 years before being elected mayor. Previously, he helped established and operated the Victoria Association for Street Kids for seven years...

 (X)
Independent
Paul Brown Open Victoria 
Steve Filipovic Independent
David Shebib Independent

West Vancouver

Candidate Vote %
Michael Smith
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