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2011 British Columbia municipal elections

Field	Value
election_name	2011 British Columbia municipal elections
country	British Columbia
type	municipal
previous_election	2008 British Columbia municipal elections
previous_year	2008
next_election	2014 British Columbia municipal elections
next_year	2014
election_date	19 November 2011
map_image	Canada British Columbia location map.svg

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

Selected mayoral races are as follows:

[[Abbotsford, British Columbia|Abbotsford]]

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

[[Burnaby]]

Candidate	Party	Vote	%
Derek Corrigan (X)	Burnaby Citizens Association	25,035	76.01
Tom Tao	TEAM Burnaby	5,450	16.55
Allen Hutton	Independent	1,600	4.86
Sylvia Gung	Independent	850	2.58

[[Campbell River, British Columbia|Campbell River]]

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

[[Castlegar, British Columbia|Castlegar]]

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

[[Central Saanich]]

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

[[Chilliwack]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Sharon Gaetz (X)	Acclaimed

[[Coldstream, British Columbia|Coldstream]]

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

[[Colwood, British Columbia|Colwood]]

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

[[Comox, British Columbia|Comox]]

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

[[Coquitlam]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Richard Stewart (X)	10,050
Barrie Lynch	7,591

[[Courtenay, British Columbia|Courtenay]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Larry Jangula	2,543
Greg Phelps (X)	2,466
William Bate	257

[[Cranbrook, British Columbia|Cranbrook]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Wayne Stetski	2,185
Jim Wavrecan	1,704
Pat O'Connell	863
John York	107

[[Dawson Creek]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Mike Bernier (X)	Acclaimed

[[Delta, British Columbia|Delta]]

Candidate	Party	Vote	%
Lois Jackson	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

[[Esquimalt, British Columbia|Esquimalt]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Barbara Desjardins (X)	Acclaimed

[[Fort St. John, British Columbia|Fort St. John]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Lori Ackerman	1,269
Don Irwin	1,209
Mike Murray	198

[[Hope, British Columbia|Hope]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Susan Ann Johnston	898
Laurie French (X)	682

[[Kamloops]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Peter Milobar (X)	9,391
Dieter Dudy	9,156
Gordon Chow	441
Brian Alexander	251

[[Kelowna]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Walter Gray	13,995
Sharon Shepherd (X)	13,574
Cal Condy	1,000
Ken Chung	749
Kim Ouellette	370

[[Lake Country, British Columbia|Lake Country]]

Candidate	Vote	%
James Baker (X)	988
Jason McCarthy	713
Noreen Guenther	530
Bill Clark	449

[[Langford, British Columbia|Langford]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Stewart Young (X)	2,319
Christopher Johnson	507

[[Langley, British Columbia (city)|Langley (city)]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Peter Fassbender (X)	2,455
Ron Abgrall	983

[[Langley, British Columbia (district municipality)|Langley Township]]

Mel Kositsky announced that he would run for mayor on September 11, 2011. In November, there was a political debate between the mayoral candidates for both Langley City and Langley Township. Kositsky spent $70,254 on his political campaign, while Jack Froese, who won the election, had spent $79,533.

Candidate	Party	Vote
Jack Froese	Independent	7,706
Mel Kositsky	Independent	6,522
Rick Green (X)	Vote Langley Now	4,466

[[Maple Ridge, British Columbia|Maple Ridge]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Ernie Daykin (X)	7,394
Craig Ruthven	4,953

[[Mission, British Columbia|Mission]]

Candidate	Party	Vote
Ted Adlem	Citizens for responsible municipal government	3,728
James Atebe (X)	Independent	2,465
Mike Gildersleeve	Independent	827
Daniel Williamson	Independent	343

[[Nanaimo]]

Candidate	Vote	%
John Ruttan (X)	8,815
Roger McKinnon	5,366
Jim Routledge	2,139
Dan Didio	546

[[Nelson, British Columbia|Nelson]]

Candidate	Vote	%
John Dooley (X)	1,790
Richard Rowberry	481
George Mercredi	105

[[New Westminster]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Wayne Wright (X)	6,633
James Crosty	3,139
Vance McFadyen	826
François Nantel	207

[[North Cowichan, British Columbia|North Cowichan]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Jon Lefebure	2,344
Tom Walker (X)	2,328
Joyce Behnsen	941
Scott Baker	916
Clayton Balabanov	415

[[North Saanich]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Alice Finall (X)	Acclaimed

[[North Vancouver (city)|North Vancouver City]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Darrell Mussatto (X)	5,037
Ron Polly	758
George Pringle	546
Kit Nicholls	487

[[North Vancouver (district municipality)|North Vancouver District]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Richard Walton (X)	9,897
Marjorie Goodman	2,241

[[Oak Bay, British Columbia|Oak Bay]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Nils Jensen	3,197
Hazel Brathwaite	2,769

[[Parksville, British Columbia|Parksville]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Chris Burger	2,355
Paul Reitsma	749
Rick Honaizer	76
Antonio Farinha	51

[[Penticton]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Dan Ashton (X)	3,124
Julius Bloomfield	2,978
Katie Robinson	1,989
Vic Powell	372
Jukka Laurio	22

[[Pitt Meadows]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Deb Walters	2,025
John Becker	1,202
Gary Paller	437

[[Port Alberni]]

Candidate	Vote	%
John Douglas	2,556
Ken McRae (X)	1,794
Jen Fisher-Bradley	194
Stacey Gaiga	166

[[Port Coquitlam]]

Candidate	Party	Vote
Greg Moore (X)	Independent	5,827
William Issa	Canada Fire Safety Corporation	1,691
Patrick Alambets	Independent	310

[[Port Moody]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Mike Clay	3,154
Robert Simons	2,019
Katie Kickbush	321

[[Powell River, British Columbia|Powell River]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Dave Formosa	2,325
Stewart Alsgard (X)	2,078

[[Prince George, British Columbia|Prince George]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Shari Green	6,969
Dan Rogers (X)	5,332
Alex Huber	1,200
Brandon Lewis	707
Eugene Fetterly	513
Bruce Fader	306

[[Prince Rupert, British Columbia|Prince Rupert]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Jack Mussallem (X)	1,769
Kathleen Bedard	981
Corinna Morhart	357

[[Richmond, British Columbia|Richmond]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Malcolm Brodie (X)	20,955	69.83
Richard Lee	9,054	30.17

[[Saanich, British Columbia|Saanich]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Frank Leonard (X)	11,151
David Cubberley	9,526
David Shebib	173

[[Salmon Arm]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Nancy Cooper	2,745
Kevin Flynn	2,214
Ronald Telfer	149

[[Sidney, British Columbia|Sidney]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Larry Cross (X)	2,185
Jack Barker	704

[[Smithers, British Columbia|Smithers]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Taylor Bachrach	896	58.52
Cress Farrow (X)	635	41.48

[[Sooke, British Columbia|Sooke]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Wendal Milne	2,571
David Bennett	931

[[Squamish, British Columbia|Squamish]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Rob Kirkham (X)	2,283
Auli Parviainen	2,104
Ron Bahm	147

[[Summerland, British Columbia|Summerland]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Janice Perrino (X)	Acclaimed

[[Surrey, British Columbia|Surrey]]

Candidate	Party	Vote	%
Dianne Watts (X)	Surrey First	55,826	80.29
Ross Buchanan	Independent	6,267	9.01
Vikram Bajwa	Independent	4,481	6.44
Clifford Inimgba	Independent	1,183	1.70
Deanna Welters	Independent	1,147	1.65
Shan Rana	Independent	330	0.47
Touraj Ghanbar-Zadeh	Independent	298	0.43
Joginder Ranhawa	Independent	0	0.00

The main opposition party, the Surrey Civic Coalition did not field a mayoral candidate against Watts. They did run a slate for city council, however, but did not win any seats.

[[Terrace, British Columbia|Terrace]]

Candidate	Vote	%
David Pernarowski (X)	1211
Bruce Martindale	630
Jennifer Lewis	210
Merv Ritchie	169
Don Dunster	27

[[Vancouver]]

Main article: 2011 Vancouver municipal election

[[Vernon, British Columbia|Vernon]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Robert Sawatzky	4,421
Wayne Lippert (X)	2,538
Patrick Davies	1,858

[[Victoria, British Columbia|Victoria]]

Candidate	Party	Vote
Dean Fortin (X)	Independent	10,080
Paul Brown	Open Victoria	4,229
Steve Filipovic	Independent	2,206
David Shebib	Independent	161

[[West Kelowna]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Doug Findlater (X)	3,734
Rosalind Neis	2,126

[[West Vancouver]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Michael Smith	Acclaimed

[[Williams Lake, British Columbia|Williams Lake]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Kerry Cook (X)	1,777
Scott Nelson	1,090
Walter Cobb	747

[[White Rock, British Columbia|White Rock]]

Candidate	Vote	%
Wayne Baldwin	2,169
Lynne Sinclair	1,690
Larry Anschell	706
Angelo Megla	24

References

Bibliography

References

Frank Bucholtz. (September 12, 2011). "Kositsky makes it a three-way race for mayor". Langley Times.
Matthew Claxton. (March 22, 2012). "Candidates got a multitude of donations, or none at all". Langley Advance.

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