Ken Sim's ABC party forms super majority in Vancouver City Council

ABC Vancouver

Mayor-elect Ken Sim will have a strong backing for his governance for the next four years, as the ABC Vancouver party has secured a super majority of the seats in Vancouver City Council.

ABC candidates running for Vancouver city councillor have secured seven of the 10 seats in the chamber, as of the preliminary election results at 10:35 pm.

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Sim has won his seat for mayor, overthrowing incumbent Kennedy Stewart of Forward Together. With both the mayoral seat and seven city councillors, ABC Vancouver has a strong majority control of eight of the 11 seats of Vancouver City Council.

All seven ABC candidates filling city councillor seats have established a strong lead over the rest of the pack that will fill the remaining three seats. As of 10:40 pm with 52,735 ballots counted at 48 of 106 voting locations, this is how the results are looking:

ABC — Sarah Kirby-Yung (incumbent): 21,448
ABC — Lisa Dominato (incumbent): 20,871
ABC — Brian Montague (incumbent): 20,427
ABC — Mike Klassen: 19,309
ABC — Peter Meiszner: 18,626
ABC — Lenny Zhou: 18,605
ABC — Rebecca Bligh: 18,342
Green Party — Adriane Carr: 12,635
OneCity — Christine Boyle: 11,753
Green Party — Pete Fry: 11,176

The latter three candidates have less of a certainty at this time; only ABC city councillor candidates are currently projected to win at the time of writing.

In addition to winning City Council, ABC has also secured majorities in the Vancouver Park Board and Vancouver School Board.

For the latest results and updates of the outcome, check out Daily Hive’s Election Hub.