New mayors, new direction: How election night played out in Vancouver and Surrey - CTV News

October 18 2026 - Voters in British Columbia replaced 44 sitting mayors in Saturday’s municipal elections, the highest pure total of defeated incumbents among provinces that have already completed their current municipal cycle. In Vancouver, Pete Fry defeated incumbent Ken Sim. In Surrey, Doug McCallum returned to unseat Brenda Locke. Kamloops councillor Mike O’Reilly topped the polls over Reid Hamer-Jackson, and long-time Prince George councillor Garth Frizzell defeated Simon Yu. The total of 44 is higher than B. C.’s usual pattern, where incumbents who run again have historically been re-elected about 80 per cent of the time. Among other provinces that have already voted, Alberta’s October 2025 elections produced the next-highest recent figure, with more than a dozen sitting mayors defeated. Quebec’s November 2025 results and New Brunswick’s May 2026 elections showed lower pure defeat counts. Ontario, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island have not yet held their municipal elections and are excluded from the comparison. Results in B. C. remain unofficial until final declarations by local chief election officers on October 21. B. C. posts highest defeated incumbent mayors so far

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Well beyond Vancouver — from Surrey and Langley to Prince George and Kamloops  — voters have ousted mayors in many of the province’s largest cities. The rejected mayors range from the pragmatic to the controversial, as voters in many B. C. cities chose new leaders Many races were relatively close. Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s contest was not one of them.

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Pete Fry will be the next mayor of Vancouver, CBC News projectsPete Fry has been elected the mayor of Vancouver, CBC News projects, defeating incumbent Ken Sim. Fry, the son of longtime Liberal MP Hedy Fry, will be the first Green Party mayor in Vancouver’s history. The two-term councillor was one of a number of candidates looking to unseat Sim. Candidates William Azaroff from OneCity Vancouver and Stephanie Allen of COPE ended their campaigns to narrow the field. "In order to get Ken Sim out, we have to unite behind a single progressive mayoral candidate," Azaroff said last month. It's a strategy that appears to have worked. In his concession speech, Ken Sim congratulated Pete Fry for his victory in Vancouver's mayoral race, saying he respects the two-term Green councillor. "Contrary to what's portrayed out in the media there, we actually do like each other," Sim said. "We get along. "It was a shift in tone from the campaign trail, which saw Sim release an attack ad aimed at Fry, positioning him as having to partner with COPE Coun. Sean Orr, who has been the target of Sim's criticism in the past.

Incumbency doesn’t mean much in Penticton. Over the last three decades, a mayor has won re-election just once, and as Julius Bloomfield attempts to buck the fate of his predecessors he’ll need to defeat a former MLA who happens to be the last mayor to accomplish the feat.