Big city mayors unseated across B.C.

And certainly the story of the night, Pete Fry, the new mayor of Vancouver, defeating Ken Sim. Game over for SimCity after just four years, a 17,000 vote victory for Fry at the moment. More numbers are going to come in. And of course, equally important, he will have a progressive majority on council that he will work with. Now, it's interesting. Right now, there's two ABC councillors in the top 10, all four co-candidates, three people with the Green Party. uh but there's a number of people all bunched within 1,000 votes of each other in the area between 8th place and 13th place if you see the one more person is one city on there but this has been going back and forth all night so we could have two ABC people we could have zero at the end of the day we may even have three that part of the story still yet to be told uh but certainly that's one of those things that is much secondary to the fact that Pete Fry the mayor will have his coalition to immediately move forward on the things that he wants to. It'll be fascinating to see what the first budget looks like. It'll be fascinating to see what sort of relationship he has with the Vancouver Police Department, which has gotten their way on many, many issues over the past four years. It'll be interesting to see what happens now that he's in charge, arguably, of the downtown east side and these issues that have stymied Vancouver politicians for a long time. That's the council makeup. School board, as you said, Stephen, is a mix of one city, COPE and Greens park board is fully COPE and Greens at this point uh it's a big shift to the left it's going to be a big change for how Vancouver is governed over the next four years and it's going to be Pete Fry at the top of city hall the new mayor of Vancouver and Justin before you go we have to i gotta ask you um as well just one last look at what you make of what you've seen so far tonight and certainly the story has been all these changes that we've seen everywhere we can see Rob Howard again we're taking a look at that 750 vote lead but big city mayors going down to defeat again and again but it wasn't all from the right it wasn't all from the left it wasn't a populist wave most of the time voters wanted someone with experience who wasn't quite a firebrand but it's fascinating to see the mood locally people wanted a change of government will we see that again seven days from now with voters across British Columbia still to be seen Still to be some results here. Alan's going through all these final boards for us because we're running out of time. You're going to have to tune in tomorrow for our radio special or Pete Fry's results but in the near municipality of choice But for right now, still some results left to be seen. But in Vancouver, we know who's going to be mayor for the next four years. And his name is Pete Fry.