The Canadian province of British Columbia held municipal elections on November 19, 2005. Voters in each of BC's 157 municipalities elected mayors and councillors, and rural voters elected directors for their regional district electoral area. School boards and other specialized public bodies (such as the Vancouver Park Board) have also been elected, and various local referendums are held concurrently.

Political parties and slates are a common feature of governance in some municipalities in the Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria areas, though the rest of the province's cities and towns resemble the majority of Canada in lacking overt partisan alliances. The City of Vancouver, as well as its neighbour Richmond in particular, has an entrenched and polarized party system unique in the country.

Metro Vancouver

Burnaby

Candidate Party Vote  %
Derek Corrigan (inc.)Burnaby Citizens17,66254.0
Andrew StewartTeam Burnaby13,95142.6
Tom TaoIndependent1,1203.4

Coquitlam

Candidate Vote  %
Maxine Wilson7,97044.6
Jon D.H. Kingsbury (inc.)7,91844.4
Harry Warren1,96210.6

Delta

Candidate Vote  %
Lois E. Jackson (inc.)12,18151.8
Bruce McDonald11,34348.2

Langley (city)

Candidate Vote  %
Peter FassbenderElected
Dean Copeland

Langley (township)

Candidate Vote  %
Kurt Alberts (inc.)7,69462.7
Tom Ouellette4,57737.3

Maple Ridge

Candidate Vote  %
Gordon Robson6,99048.8
Kathy Morse (inc.)3,68025.7
Bill Hartley3,55824.8
William Perry990.7

New Westminster

Candidate Vote  %
Wayne Wright (inc.)5,814
Casey Cook4,499

North Vancouver (city)

Candidate Vote  %
Darrell R. Mussatto2,68740.2
Rod Clark2,19832.8
Barbara Ann Sharp (inc.)1,73826.0
Bill Tomlinson691.0

North Vancouver (district)

Candidate Vote  %
Richard Walton6,83844.6
Jim Cuthbert4,48829.3
Dave Sadler9406.1
David Dixon8695.7

Pitt Meadows

Candidate Vote  %
Don MacLean (inc.)2,10475.7
Shawn Stevens67624.3

Port Coquitlam

Candidate Vote  %
Scott Young (inc.)6,00389.0
Patrick Alambets74411.0

Port Moody

Candidate Vote  %
Joe Trasolini (inc.)Acclaimed

Richmond

Candidate Vote  %
Malcolm Brodie (inc.)21,13974.7
Michael Wolfe7,16525.3

Surrey

Mayor

Candidate Vote  %
Dianne Watts45,98155.3
Doug McCallum (inc.)35,55840.3
Joe Pal4560.5
Joginder Singh Randhawa4480.5
Brady Warren Halverson4030.5
Jag Bhandari3270.4

Councillors

2005 Surrey election, Councillors (eight elected)
Candidate Total votes  % of total votes
Bob Bose 39,313 7.10
Judy Villeneuve 37,088 6.70
Judy Higginbotham 35,705 6.45
Marvin Hunt 31,717 5.73
Barbara Steele 31,222 5.64
Tom Gill 25,869 4.67
Linda Heppner 25,260 4.56
Mary Martin 24,994 4.51
Cliff Annable 24,824 4.48
Sargy Chima 21,608 3.90
Rosemary Zelinka 21,536 3.89
Art Hildebrant 16,771 3.03
Barinder Rasode 16,202 2.93
Sheena Wilkie 15,219 2.75
Stephanie DeRapp 15,208 2.75
Ted Allen 15,180 2.74
Jim King 14,012 2.53
Amrik Singh Mahil 13,821 2.50
Jim McMurtry 13,238 2.39
Bill Stilwell 11,848 2.14
Rick Hart 11,678 2.11
David Evans 9,542 1.72
Jim Bester 7,494 1.35
Bob Martin 7,300 1.32
Barbara Saunders 6,083 1.10
Gary A. Hoffman 5,762 1.04
Rupinder S. Bhinder 5,508 0.99
Edward Rogers 5,237 0.95
Gurmit Bedi 4,877 0.88
Michael Chen 4,870 0.88
Mona Jagga 4,862 0.88
Bajinder Mann 4,683 0.85
Tammy Dao 4,124 0.74
Dalip Bhatia 3,716 0.67
Kheng-Lee Ooi (Huang) 3,362 0.61
Rob Terris 3,073 0.56
Pierre Rovtar 2,630 0.48
Ijaz Ahmed Chatta 2,336 0.42
Sada Maharaj 2,187 0.40
Joe Doserro 2,109 0.38
Syed Bokhari 1,544 0.28
Total valid votes 553,612 100.00

Electors could vote for eight candidates. Percentages are determined in relation to the total number of votes.

Vancouver

Sam Sullivan defeated Jim Green, and 18 other candidates, in the race for mayor.

West Vancouver

Candidate Vote  %
Pamela Goldsmith-Jones7,65964.9
Ron Wood (inc.)4,13935.1

White Rock

Candidate Vote  %
Judy Forster (inc.)2,80646.1
Ken Jones2,07534.1
Margaret Woods1,21019.9

Capital Region

Central Saanich

Candidate Vote  %
Jack Mar2,09954.3
Allison Habkirk (inc.)1,76845.7

Colwood

Candidate Vote  %
Jody Twa (inc.) ?
Bambi Fernando ?
Terry Robinson ?

Esquimalt

Candidate Vote  %
Chris Clement1,64946.8
Ruth Layne96027.3
Darwin A. Robinson (inc.)91225.9

Langford

Candidate Vote  %
Stewart Young (inc.)2,60575.7
Robert Fraser83624.3

North Saanich

Candidate Vote  %
Ted Daly (inc.)2,25954.7
Patrick Godfrey1,87445.3

Oak Bay

Candidate Vote  %
Christopher Causton (inc.)Acclaimed

Saanich

Candidate Vote  %
Frank Leonard (inc.)Acclaimed

Sidney

Candidate Vote  %
Don Amos (inc.)Acclaimed

Victoria

Candidate Vote  %
Alan Lowe (inc.)8,69051.9
Ben Isitt7,29843.6
Gregory Hartnell3812.3
Diana Smardon2461.5
Georgia Jones1200.7

Up-Island

Campbell River

Candidate Vote  %
Roger McDonell2,18530.0
Bill Matthews1,68123.1
Lynn Nash (inc.)1,59821.9
Dave Jackson1,34218.4
Daniel Rabu4856.7

Comox

Candidate Vote  %
Jim Brass (inc.)2,81473.1
Dennis Strand1,03526.9

Courtenay

Candidate Vote  %
Starr Winchester (inc.)3,02880.6
M.W. Schell72819.4

Nanaimo

Candidate Vote  %
Gary Richard Korpan (inc.)6,33030.5
John Ruttan4,92823.8
Jolyon Brown4,88823.6
Bill King1,9989.6
Dawn Tyndall1,7978.7
Angela Negrin3471.7
Simon Schachner3061.5
Adrian de Jong1430.7

North Cowichan

Candidate Vote  %
Jon Lefebure (inc.)2,80856.8
Tom Walker1,97139.8
Peter Rudwaleit1693.4

Port Alberni

Candidate Vote  %
Ken McRae (inc.) ?
Jen Fisher-Bradley ?
James Dominic King ?

Sunshine Coast and Sea to Sky

Powell River

Candidate Vote  %
Stewart Alsgard (inc.)1,91051.1
David Gabelhouse1,39837.4
Jeff Mah2376.3
Leon Houle1945.2

Squamish

Candidate Vote  %
Ian Sutherland (inc.)2,26154.0
Terrill Patterson1,92546.0

Fraser Valley

Abbotsford

Candidate Vote  %
George F. Ferguson12,12446.1
Mary Reeves (inc.)10,88841.4
Sid Gould1,8677.1
John Constible1,2224.6
Wes Pidgeon2180.8

Chilliwack

Candidate Vote  %
Clint Hames (inc.)Acclaimed

Mission

Candidate Vote  %
James Atebe4,15467.9
Mel Norder1,54325.2
Alan Podgorenko2564.2
Tim Felger1612.6

Thompson, Shuswap and Cariboo

Kamloops

Candidate Vote  %
Terry Lake11,72756.7
Pete Backus4,52521.9
Al McNair4,41621.4

Salmon Arm

Candidate Vote  %
Marty Bootsma1,21026.1
Nancy Cooper1,20726.0
Greg Husband1,00821.7
Garrett Norman Wynne57012.3
Eugene Dionne4429.5
Aram Schneider2024.4

Williams Lake

Candidate Vote  %
Scott Nelson110928.9
Kerry Cook105627.5
Elmer Theissen86822.6
Deb Demare80921.1

Okanagan

Kelowna

Candidate Vote  %
Sharon Shepherd13,70653.1
Walter Gray (inc.)11,45344.4
Stephen May3781.5
Andrew Uitvlugt1530.6
Kim Ouellette1150.4

Penticton

Candidate Vote  %
Jake Kimberley3,65137.0
David Perry (inc.)3,14531.8
Mike Pearce3,08231.2

Vernon

Candidate Vote  %
Wayne Lippert2,98431.6
Peter Armstrong2,39225.3
Dean Skoreyko2,05421.7
Derek Hall2,01621.3

Kootenays

Cranbrook

Candidate Vote  %
Ross Priest (inc.)Acclaimed ?

Peace River

Dawson Creek

Candidate Vote  %
Calvin Kruk1,41248.9
Wayne Dahlen (inc.)1,05136.4
Gary Loiselle42214.6

Fort St. John

Candidate Vote  %
Jim Eglinski1,53445.4
Steve Thorlakson (inc.)93927.8
Dave Bodnar65719.4
Matthew Johnson2487.3

Central Interior

Prince George

Candidate Vote  %
Colin Kinsley (inc.)8,65049.6
Dan Rogers8,00845.9
Trent Derrick5713.3
Tyler Doerksen1600.9
Nathan Paul Prince620.4

Northwest

Prince Rupert

Candidate Vote  %
Herb Pond (inc.)3,37783.0
Gloria Rendell69317.0

Terrace

Candidate Vote  %
Jack Talstra (inc.)Acclaimed

See also

References

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