Green Party confirms four Vancouver City Council candidates for election | Daily Hive

Camil Dumont. (Vancouver Park Board)

Out of a pool of six “approved candidates” for the membership’s consideration, the Green Party of Vancouver has selected four candidates to run for Vancouver City Council under its banner in the October 2026 civic election.

The four candidates confirmed to appear on the ballot, with their names listed alongside the party’s name, are Annette Reilly, Camil Dumont, Bridget Burns, and Stephanie Smith.

Reilly finished fourth in the April 2025 City Council by-election — earning 15,045 votes, behind the 17,352 votes secured by Colleen Hardwick of TEAM For a Livable Vancouver, and the roughly 34,000 votes won by each of the elected candidates of Sean Orr of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) and Lucy Maloney of OneCity Vancouver. She is known for her work in film and television production, including a recurring role in Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina in 2018 and 2019.

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Dumont is an urban farming advocate and former Vancouver Park Board commissioner who served with the Greens from 2018 to 2022. He placed third among Park Board candidates in the 2018 civic election but opted not to seek re-election in 2022 following a turbulent term marked by controversies surrounding public disorder linked to prolonged encampments in parks and the Stanley Park Drive bike lane.

Burns brings extensive campaign experience across the federal, provincial, and municipal levels, including work on the Green Party’s 2022 Vancouver civic election campaign and as the party’s national field manager at the federal level. Smith is an activist focused on housing, labour, and social justice issues.

Annette Reilly. (Green Party of Vancouver)

On the campaign trail, they will join sitting city councillor Pete Fry, who is the Green Party’s first Vancouver mayoral candidate in 30 years.

“This is a very strong team. Each of these candidates brings real-world experience, deep community roots, and a commitment to practical solutions that improve people’s lives,” said Fry in a statement this week.

“I’m excited to work alongside them to build a City Hall that is more accountable, more collaborative, and more focused on the everyday challenges people are facing.”

Last month, the Greens joined COPE and OneCity in signing an agreement that caps the number of candidates each party can run across the three municipal bodies — City Council, the Vancouver Park Board, and the Vancouver School Board. The agreement is intended to reduce competition among left-wing and progressive parties and improve their candidates’ chances of being elected against ABC Vancouver and other parties.

Each party is limited to up to a combined total of 13 candidates across the three chambers, including up to five candidates for City Council. However, the Greens have nominated four candidates for this primary chamber of the municipal government, as they believe that even with the set limits, the parties will be nominating too many city council candidates.

“Our members overwhelmingly supported the unity agreement because people understand the stakes in this election,” said Green Party of Vancouver chair Nick Poppell.

“At the same time, we’ve heard clear concerns from both members and voters that the progressive parties are still running too many candidates. That’s why we made the decision to nominate four City Council candidates at this time, rather than the five permitted under the agreement.”

However, the Greens are running one more candidate for Park Board — exceeding the agreement’s limit of four candidates for each of the Green and COPE parties.

Early this month, the Greens confirmed five candidates to pursue Park Board commissioner seats, entailing incumbent commissioner Tom Digby, notable local vegan chef Breanne Smart, cycling advocate and organic food industry veteran Adam Hawk, community-driven planner and former Park Board lifeguard Gabi Tremblay, and accessibility advocate Spencer van Vloten.

All three parties are confirming their candidate lists for all three chambers ahead of this week’s deadline established under the agreement.

Pete Fry. (Kenneth Chan)

As well, the three parties will try to reach an agreement on the best left-wing/progressive mayoral candidate, suggesting that two of the mayoral candidates will eventually agree to drop out closer to the election and support the strongest mayoral candidate representing their segment of the political spectrum.

Stephanie Allen, a former BC Housing vice president and Hogan’s Alley activist, was named as COPE’s mayoral candidate last week, while William Azaroff, the CEO of non-profit housing developer and operator Brightside Community Homes and a former executive at Vancity Credit Union, was elected by OneCity’s membership in February following a highly publicized internal party race.

The Green Party believes Fry is the best candidate to represent all three left-wing/progressive parties. The parties could make a decision on a united mayoral candidate approach early this summer.

“Pete Fry has consistently demonstrated an ability to work across party lines and bring people together, and collaboration is a core Green principle,” continued Poppell.

“Those are exactly the conversations we’ll be bringing into July’s negotiations with the other progressive parties as we make the case that Pete is the strongest Mayoral choice to unite progressive voters, defeat Ken Sim, and restore accountability to City Hall.”

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