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A thoughtful, well-articulated and expansively compelling analysis of the recent Vancouver civic election. Probably the best analysis that is likely to be written about #VanElxn2022. Thank you, Khelsilim for your non-partisan and well-reasoned fairmindedness.

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Good observations. When campaigns end, the two questions I always ask are, who ran the best campaign and who had the most money to implement that campaign? Putting aside those campaigns & candidates that won with little opposition, winning contested campaigns like Vancouver's takes skills and finances. Clearly ABC's Sims spent four years amassing the funds and a skilled team of campaign experts. How Vancouver's progressive parties (& individuals) managed to drop the ball by running so many poorly timed slates is beyond me. After four terms of progressive Gov't I guess these results were inevitable. Now we'll have to go backwards for at least four years. The BCNDP Gov't will likely end up at logger heads with the ABC Team and BC Housing will end up as the monkey in the middle unless Dave Eby can get around the conservative ABC Team with new legislation that mandates prioritizing social housing before market housing.

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Turnout n the 2020 BC election was 54%, down about 7%. There wasn't a provincial election in 2021. While municipal elections in BC are their own beast, it's aligned with political disengagement in BC

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Hi Khelsilem,

Very helpful analysis. What about the factor of the ABC huge budget and donations from Chip Wilson's fund to elect right wing candidates at all levels of government ?

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