Pete Fry
Pete Fry | |
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| Vancouver City Councillor | |
| Assumed office November 2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1969 or 1970 (age 54–55)[1] Ireland |
| Political party | Green Party |
| Residence | Vancouver |
Pete Fry is a Canadian politician and business owner in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has served as councillor on the Vancouver City Council since 2018. He is a member of the Green Party of Vancouver.
Owner of a graphics and communications agency in Vancouver, Fry became involved in community activism, serving as community representative for the City of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan, as well as chair of the Strathcona Residents’ Association.[2] He first ran for city council in the 2014 municipal election, but was not elected.[3]
He then secured the nomination of the Green Party of British Columbia in a 2016 provincial by-election in the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant,[1] where he lost to British Columbia New Democratic Party candidate Melanie Mark.[4] In 2017, he ran for Vancouver City Council a second time, in the by-election following the resignation of Geoff Meggs;[5] he lost to Non-Partisan Association candidate Hector Bremner.[6] At the 2018 city council election, Fry received the second highest number of votes and was elected councillor.[7]
Born in Ireland, Fry immigrated with his family to Vancouver as a child.[2][8] His mother is Hedy Fry, the federal Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre.[1][9]
Electoral record
| 2018 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Green | Adriane Carr | 69,739 | 
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| Green | Pete Fry | 61,806 |
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| NPA | Melissa De Genova | 53,251 |
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| COPE | Jean Swanson | 48,865 |
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| NPA | Colleen Hardwick | 47,747 |
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| Green | Michael Wiebe | 45,593 |
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| OneCity | Christine Boyle | 45,455 |
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| NPA | Lisa Dominato | 44,689 |
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| NPA | Rebecca Bligh | 44,053 |
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| NPA | Sarah Kirby-Yung | 43,581 |
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| Vancouver municipal by-election, October 14, 2017 Resignation of Geoff Meggs | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Elected | ||||
| NPA | Hector Bremner | 13,372 | 27.83 |
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| COPE | Jean Swanson | 10,263 | 21.36 | |||||
| Green | Pete Fry | 9759 | 20.31 | |||||
| OneCity | Judy Graves | 6327 | 13.17 | |||||
| Vision | Diego Cardona | 5411 | 11.26 | |||||
| Sensible Vancouver | Mary Jean Dunsdon | 1737 | 3.62 | |||||
| Independent | Gary Lee | 886 | 1.84 | |||||
| Independent | Damian J. Murphy | 157 | 0.33 | |||||
| Independent | Joshua Wasilenkoff | 131 | 0.27 | |||||
| British Columbia provincial by-election, February 2, 2016: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Resignation of Jenny Kwan | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| New Democratic | Melanie Mark | 5,353 | 60.82 | -5.01 | ||||
| Green | Pete Fry | 2,325 | 26.42 | +14.50 | ||||
| Liberal | Gavin Dew | 994 | 11.29 | -7.45 | ||||
| Libertarian | Bonnie Boya Hu | 74 | 0.84 | |||||
| Your Political Party | Jeremy Gustafson | 55 | 0.62 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 8,801 | 100.00 | ||||||
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| New Democratic hold | Swing | |||||||
| 2014 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Green | Adriane Carr | 74,077 |
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| NPA | George Affleck | 68,419 |
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| NPA | Elizabeth Ball | 67,195 |
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| NPA | Melissa De Genova | 63,134 |
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| Vision | Heather Deal | 62,698 |
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| Vision | Kerry Jang | 62,595 |
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| Vision | Andrea Reimer | 62,316 |
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| Vision | Raymond Louie | 61,903 |
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| Vision | Tim Stevenson | 57,640 |
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| Vision | Geoff Meggs | 56,831 |
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| NPA | Ian Robertson | 56,319 | ||||||
| NPA | Gregory Baker | 55,721 | ||||||
| NPA | Suzanne Scott | 55,486 | ||||||
| NPA | Ken Low | 54,971 | ||||||
| NPA | Rob McDowell | 53,596 | ||||||
| Vision | Tony Tang | 49,414 | ||||||
| Vision | Niki Sharma | 48,987 | ||||||
| Green | Cleta Brown | 47,564 | ||||||
| Green | Pete Fry | 46,522 | ||||||
References
- ^ a b c MacLeod, Andrew (2016-01-18). "Byelection Battle: Meet Candidates Vying for Vancouver Mount-Pleasant". The Tyee. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ a b "About". Petefry.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ "Vancouver election 2014: Full results for mayor, council, school and park board". Global BC. 2014-11-16. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ "B.C. NDP candidates Jodie Wickens and Melanie Mark win Metro Vancouver byelections". CBC News. 2016-02-02. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ "Pete Fry to run for Green Party of Vancouver in city by-election". CBC News. 2017-08-17. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ McElroy, Justin (2017-10-14). "NPA's Hector Bremner wins council seat in Vancouver byelection". CBC News. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ Lindsay, Bethany (2018-10-20). "Kennedy Stewart elected mayor of Vancouver". CBC News. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ Pablo, Carlito (2018-10-24). "Mixed-race heritage stirs Vancouver councillor-elect Pete Fry to champion city's diversity". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
- ^ Fry, Pete (2014-10-29). "Pete Fry: A better city together". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved 2019-12-08.
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