Ken Sim out as Vancouver mayor, voters move left with Pete Fry

Ken Sim out as Vancouver mayor, voters move left with Pete Fry

Published 11:22 pm Saturday, October 17, 2026

Green Party of Vancouver’s Pete Fry is the new mayor of B.C.’s largest city, Vancouver.

Fry beat out incumbent Ken Sim, of ABC Vancouver, by more than 20,000 votes as of 11:20 p.m. on Saturday (Oct. 17).

As of 11:20 p.m., Fry had 70,183. Sim had 49,780 votes. There had been 106 out of 149 polling locations counted at that point.

Fry took to the stage for his winning speech shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Saturday (Oct. 17). At that time, 75 out of 149 polling locations had been counted.

Sim made his concession speech shortly after. He was first elected in 2022, beating out incumbent Kennedy Stewart.

Fry is the son of Vancouver Centre Liberal MP Hedy Fry.

Council is a mix of slates, with COPE, Green, OneCity and ABV Vancouver councillors.

As of 11 p.m., in the lead is COPE’s Sean Orr (51,777), Green’s Annette Reilly (47,854), COPE’s Chloe Leslie (42,554), COPE’s Devyani Singh (41,031), OneCity’s Lucy Maloney (39,756), Green’s Stephanie Smith (38,498), COPE’s Solomon Yi-Kieran (38,013), Green’s Camil Dumont (37,514), ABC Vancouver’s Mike Klassen (36,927) and ABC Vancouver’s Joyce Gillespie (35,218).