How Vancouver neighbourhoods changed their vote in the 2022 election

Forward Together Mayor Kennedy Stewart (left) and ABC Vancouver Mayor-elect Ken Sim (right). (Forward Together/ABC Vancouver)

Although overall turnout was slightly lower than the previous election, some Vancouver neighbourhoods in the Westside and areas known to have larger Asian ethnic populations generally saw a bigger turnout in the 2022 civic election compared to four years ago.

Moreover, not only did some voting stations see a higher turnout, they appeared to have flipped their vote from various other parties in the 2018 election towards Ken Sim and his ABC Vancouver party, based on Daily Hive Urbanized’s preliminary analysis of the City of Vancouver’s data dump of the official 2022 civic election results on Wednesday afternoon.

With that said, it should also be noted that there are a range of factors that impact the differences between 2022 and 2018, including slight changes to general election day voting locations, the expansion of advance voting locations with fewer advance voting days, and the introduction of mail-in voting.

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Outgoing Mayor Kennedy Stewart of the Forward Together party won 49,593 votes in 2022 — nearly the same number as the 49,705 votes he won in 2018. In contrast, Mayor-elect Sim won 85,732 votes, which represents a 76% increase from his total of 48,748 in 2018.

Sim won 51% of the total vote in 2022, and 28% in 2018. On the other hand, Stewart won 29% of the vote in 2022, and 28.7% in 2018.

As for how the neighbourhoods and voting locations were conquered in 2022, Sim won 56 voting locations against Stewart’s 25 locations.

Sim swept most of Vancouver’s geographical areas, including nearly all of the low-density suburban communities outside of the Metro Core (downtown Vancouver and Central Broadway) and even won a handful of voting stations within the downtown Vancouver peninsula. Stewart topped Sim in most voting locations within the Metro Core, as well as Grandview-Woodland, but did not gain any traction in the southern two-thirds geographical areas of the city.

Sim saw a far stronger showing in both advance voting and mail-in voting. For mail-in voting, Sim led by 3,249 votes (53%) versus Stewart’s 2,144 votes (32%).

Here is just a sample of the interesting voting location result differences on general civic election day:

Sunset Community Centre
- Neighbourhood: Punjabi Market/Sunset, Vancouver Eastside
- Note: This location is in an area with significant visible minority populations.
- 2022: 2,144 total votes
  - Stewart: 392
  - Sim: 1,369
- 2018: 1,984 total votes
  - Stewart: 432
  - Sim: 634
David Thompson Secondary School
- Neighbourhood: Victoria-Fraserview, Vancouver Eastside
- Note: This location is in an area with significant visible minority populations.
- 2022: 1,750 total votes
  - Stewart: 250
  - Sim: 1,254
- 2018: 1,376 total votes
  - Stewart: 218
  - Sim: 527
John Norquay Elementary School
- Neighbourhood: Renfrew-Collingwood/Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Vancouver Eastside
- Note: This location is in an area with significant visible minority populations.
- 2022: 1,583 total votes
  - Stewart: 373
  - Sim: 921
- 2018: 1,137 total votes
  - Stewart: 311
  - Sim: 274
David Oppenheimer Elementary School
- Neighbourhood: Victoria-Fraserview/Killarney, Vancouver Eastside
- Note: This location is in an area with significant visible minority populations.
- 2022: 1,217 total votes
  - Stewart: 208
  - Sim: 842
- 2018: 1,189 total votes
  - Stewart: 237
  - Sim: 480
Thunderbird Elementary School
- Neighbourhood: Hastings-Sunrise, Vancouver
- Note: This location is in an area with significant visible minority populations, and is immediately adjacent to BC Housing’s future Skeena Terrace social housing project.
- 2022: 751 total votes
  - Stewart: 168
  - Sim: 430
- 2018: 755 total votes
  - Stewart: 209
  - Sim: 107
Kitsilano Neighbourhood House
- Neighbourhood: Kitsilano, Vancouver Westside
- Note: This voting location is located within very close proximity to the controversial future Arbutus supportive housing project and near the controversial Broadway Plan area.
- 2022: 1,170 total votes
  - Stewart: 469
  - Hardwick: 232
  - Sim: 353
- 2018: This voting location did not exist four years ago.
Seaforth Armoury
- Neighbourhood: Burrard Slopes/Kitsilano/False Creek South, Vancouver Westside
- Note: Located within the controversial Broadway Plan area, and near the future Senakw development site.
- 2022: 1,537 total votes
  - Stewart: 541
  - Hardwick: 299
  - Sim: 540
- 2018: This voting location did not exist four years ago.
Lord Tennyson Elementary School
- Neighbourhood: Kitsilano, Vancouver Westside
- Note: This Kitsilano voting location is located within the controversial Broadway Plan area, and in very close proximity to the controversial future Arbutus supportive housing project.
- 2022: 1,368 total votes
  - Stewart: 477
  - Hardwick: 266
  - Sim: 500
- 2018: 1,274 total votes
  - Stewart: 389
  - Hardwick: n/a
  - Sim: 275
Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre
- Neighbourhood: Kitsilano, Vancouver Westside
- Note: This Kitsilano voting location is located near the controversial Broadway Plan area and the future Arbutus supportive housing project.
- 2022: 1,657 total votes
  - Stewart: 499
  - Hardwick: 362
  - Sim: 686
- 2018: 1,839 total votes
  - Stewart: 491
  - Hardwick: n/a
  - Sim: 549
Holy Trinity Anglican Church
- Neighbourhood: South Granville, Fairview, Vancouver Westside
- Note: This location is within the controversial Broadway Plan area.
- 2022: 1,637 total votes
  - Stewart: 642
  - Hardwick: 267
  - Sim: 574
- 2018: 1,146 total votes
  - Stewart: 400
  - Hardwick: n/a
  - Sim: 232
Kerrisdale Community Centre
- Neighbourhood: Kerrisdale, Vancouver Westside
- Note: Westside neighbourhoods are typically a stronghold for centrist/centre right candidates.
- 2022: 2,138 total votes
  - Stewart: 408
  - Sim: 1,315
- 2018: 1,947 total votes
  - Stewart: 364
  - Sim: 861
Britannia Community Services Centre
- Neighbourhood: Grandview-Woodland/Strathcona, Vancouver Eastside
- Note: Close proximity to Downtown Eastside and the previous Strathcona Park homeless encampment.
- 2022: 2,048 votes
  - Stewart: 1,150
  - Sim: 434
- 2018: 1,682 votes
  - Stewart: 753
  - Sim: 128
Strathcona Community Centre
- Neighbourhood: Strathcona/Downtown Eastside, Vancouver Eastside
- Note: Close proximity to Downtown Eastside and the previous Strathcona Park homeless encampment
- 2022: 876 total votes
  - Stewart: 416
  - Sim: 305
- 2018: 1,082 total votes
  - Stewart: 434
  - Sim: 118
Crosstown Elementary School
- Neighbourhood: Crosstown/Chinatown/Gastown/Downtown Eastside, downtown Vancouver
- Note: Located in close proximity to Chinatown and Downtown Eastside.
- 2022: 723 total votes
  - Stewart: 218
  - Sim: 371
- 2018: 1,148 total votes
  - Stewart: 387
  - Sim: 210
Roundhouse Community Centre
- Neighbourhood: Yaletown, downtown Vancouver
- Note: Located near the controversial Yaletown Overdose Prevention Site, and supportive housing locations along Granville Street.
- 2022: 2,149 total votes
  - Stewart: 497
  - Sim: 1,264
- 2018: 2,263 total votes
  - Stewart: 570
  - Sim: 736
Gathering Place Community Centre
- Neighbourhood: Yaletown/Downtown South, downtown Vancouver
- Note: The Gathering Place is both a community centre and a homeless shelter, and is located immediately adjacent to the controversial Yaletown Overdose Prevention Site.
- 2022: 659 total votes
  - Stewart: 202
  - Sim: 303
- 2018: 868 total votes
  - Stewart: 275
  - Sim: 191
Coal Harbour Community Centre
- Neighbourhood: Coal Harbour, downtown Vancouver
- Note: This is the precise location of the controversial new social housing and elementary school building, as an expansion of Coal Harbour Community Centre.
- 2022: 1,345 total votes
  - Stewart: 349
  - Sim: 746
- 2018: 1,186 total votes
  - Stewart: 273
  - Sim: 402

Top 5 advance voting locations for Ken Sim (ABC Vancouver)

Advance — Kerrisdale Community Centre: 4,064 votes (75%)
Advance — Killarney Community Centre: 2,903 votes (73%)
Advance — Roundhouse Community Centre: 2,797 votes (63%)
Advance — Dunbar Community Centre: 2,763 votes (68%)
Advance — Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre: 2,473 votes (48%)

Top 10 general election day voting locations for Ken Sim (ABC Vancouver)

Sunset Community Centre: 1,369 votes (64%)
Kerrisdale Community Centre: 1,315 votes (62%)
Roundhouse Community Centre: 1,264 votes (59%)
David Thompson Secondary School: 1,254 votes (59%)
Killarney Community Centre: 1,220 votes (69%)
Collingwood Neighbourhood House: 1,142 votes (51%)
Kensington Community Centre: 1,135 votes (62%)
Marpole-Oakridge Community Centre: 1,053 votes (68%)
Chef Maquinna Elementary School: 980 votes (62%)
Dunbar Community Centre: 947 votes (59%)

Top 5 advance voting locations for Kennedy Stewart (Forward Together)

Advance — Mount Pleasant Community Centre: 1,452 votes (32%)
Advance — West End Community Centre: 1,418 votes (33%)
Advance — Trout Lake Community Centre: 1,257 votes (39%)
Advance — Kitsilano War Memorial Community Centre: 1,180 votes (23%)
Advance — Britannia Community Services Centre: 1,150 votes (56%)

Top 10 general election day voting locations for Kennedy Stewart (Forward Together)

Mount Pleasant Community Centre: 1,150 votes (54%)
Templeton Secondary School: 974 votes (50%)
Britannia Community Services Centre: 925 votes (61%)
Trout Lake Community Centre: 748 votes (45%)
King George Secondary School: 712 votes (41%)
Tillicum Community Annex: 671 votes (48%)
Collingwood Neighbourhood House: 670 votes (30%)
Holy Trinity Anglican Church: 642 votes (39%)
Douglas Park Community Centre: 617 votes (37%)
Simon Fraser Elementary School: 607 votes (45%)

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