Pete Fry endorsed by Green party to run for Vancouver mayor or City Council | Daily Hive

Pete Fry

Two-term Vancouver city councillor Pete Fry has been endorsed to run for Vancouver mayor or City Council in the October 2026 civic election, after members of the Green Party of Vancouver voted unanimously last night to have him as their candidate, one way or the other.

Fry emphasizes he has not made the final decision on whether to run for mayor or attempt to be re-elected as city councillor for a third term. This decision will be made at a later time.

“I’m deeply grateful for the continued trust that the Green Party of Vancouver and community members have placed in me,” said Fry in a statement this morning.

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“Whether that’s as a councillor or as a candidate for mayor, my goal remains the same: to keep working toward a city that’s more livable, transparent, and sustainable for everyone,” he continued.

Fry was previously unsuccessful in the 2014 civic election, the 2016 provincial by-election in the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, and the 2017 civic by-election for a vacant city councillor seat.

Fry was first elected to office in the 2018 civic election, and he is currently the Green Party’s sole representative on the Vancouver City Council following the resignation of Adriane Carr in January 2025 and the party’s unsuccessful result in the April 2025 by-election. In the 2018 civic election, Fry secured the second-highest number of votes among the city councillor candidates, just behind Carr.

But in the 2022 civic election, Fry earned the least number of votes among the 10 elected city councillors, earning 37,270 votes — just behind Christine Boyle’s 38,465 votes under the OneCity Vancouver party and ahead of Dulcy Anderson’s 33,985 votes under the Forward Together party.

Over the current term, he has been highly critical of Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC Vancouver governing party. He is also the son of longtime local MP Hedy Fry.

“Green members have given Pete Fry a strong mandate to continue his work for a greener, fairer, and more accountable Vancouver,” said Nick Poppell, chair of the Green Party of Vancouver.

“Pete has proven himself as a collaborative leader who delivers on housing, renters’ protections, and good governance. We are thrilled to endorse him.”

A year ahead of the next civic election, there are already a number of contenders against Mayor Sim.

So far, mayoral campaigns have been announced by Kareem Allam, who was ABC’s campaign manager in the 2022 civic election and briefly Sim’s chief of staff in the Mayor’s Office. He has since created a new civic political party, the Vancouver Liberals. This Sunday, the party is expected to officially nominate Allam.

Also running is Rebecca Bligh, who was originally elected under ABC in the 2022 civic election, but was expelled from the party in February 2025. She is running for mayor under her new Vote Vancouver party.

OneCity, TEAM For a Livable Vancouver, and the new Vancouver Conservatives party are also expected to field mayoral candidates, and COPE could potentially do the same.

In the 2022 civic election, Colleen Hardwick chose not to seek re-election to City Council, instead running for mayor under the revived TEAM party banner. She later made an unsuccessful bid to return to City Council in the 2025 civic by-election.

Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart recently dissolved his Forward Together party and is now focusing on a province-wide advocacy campaign to replace the “at-large system” of municipal governance with some form of proportional representation. He previously suggested such a change could be fought in court.

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