2008 British Columbia municipal elections

Municipal elections were held in the Canadian province of British Columbia on November 15, 2008.

2008 British Columbia municipal elections

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The following is a list of mayoral races in selected municipalities.

Abbotsford

Candidate	Vote	%
George W. Peary	15186	55.3
Alvin Epp	7120	25.9
Steve Dunton	3360	12.2
Gerda Peachey	1396	5.1
Case Verstraten	420	1.5

Burnaby

Candidate	Vote	%
Derek Corrigan (X)	20365	67
Andrew Robert Chisholm	10110	33

Campbell River

Candidate	Vote	%
Charlie Cornfield	5011	53.7
Terry Calvin Hoff	2305	24.7
Roger A. McDonell (X)	2012	21.6

Castlegar

Candidate	Vote	%
Lawrence D. Chernoff (X)	Acclaimed

Central Saanich

Candidate	Vote	%
Jack Mar (X)	2606	49.9
Christopher Graham	1437	27.5
Sean McNulty	1184	22.6

Chilliwack

Candidate	Vote	%
Sharon Gaetz	8889	73.2
Wayne Massey	2324	19.1
Norm Smith	925	7.6

Coldstream

Candidate	Vote	%
Jim Garlick	1899	68.5
Glen Taylor	874	31.5

Colwood

Candidate	Vote	%
David A. Saunders	1608	55.1
Carol Hamilton	1309	44.9

Comox

Candidate	Vote	%
Paul Ives	1435	34.5
Dennis Strand	1133	27.2
Don Davis	1085	26.1
Bobbi-Rae Dalsaune-Wells	373	9.0
Norton McBride	136	3.3

Coquitlam

Candidate	Vote	%
Richard Stewart	8807	52
Maxine Wilson (X)	7358	44
Owen Coomer	488	2

Courtenay

Candidate	Vote	%
Greg Phelps	3214	58.5
Starr Winchester (X)	2280	41.5

Cranbrook

Candidate	Vote	%
Scott Manjak	2254	51.0
Wayne Stetski	2050	46.3
John York	119	2.7

Dawson Creek

Candidate	Vote	%
Mike Bernier	1351	47.7
Brent Neumann	828	29.2
Wayne Dahlen	654	23

Delta

Candidate	Vote	%
Lois Jackson (X)	11103	52.4
Krista Engelland	8156	38.5
Mike Reilly	1154	5.5
Blair Clarke	458	2.2
Ray Robinson	303	1.4

Esquimalt

Candidate	Vote	%
Barbara Desjardins	2131	62.5
Chris Clement (X)	1278	37.5

Fort St. John

Candidate	Vote	%
Bruce Lantz	1498	52.7
Jim Eglinski (X)	1342	47.3

Hope

Candidate	Vote	%
Laurie French	829	45.9
Victor Wilfried	810	44.8
Arne Zabell	169	9.3

Kamloops

Candidate	Vote	%
Peter Milobar	13147	74.1
Murphy Kennedy	3667	20.7
Brian Alexander	921	5.2

Kelowna

Candidate	Vote	%
Sharon Shepherd (X)	12769	75.9
Kim Ouellette	4056	24.1

Kimberley

Candidate	Vote	%
Jim Ogilvie (X)	1219	55.7
Tim Park	968	44.3

Kitimat

Candidate	Vote	%
Joanne Monaghan	1443	56.9
Linda Campbell	1093	43.1

Ladysmith

Candidate	Vote	%
Rob Hutchins (X)	Acclaimed

Lake Country

Candidate	Vote	%
James Baker (X)	Acclaimed

Langford

Candidate	Vote	%
Stewart Young (X)	Acclaimed

Langley (city)

Candidate	Vote	%
Peter Fassbender	2683	76.5
Ron Abgrall	822	23.5

Langley (district municipality)

Candidate	Vote	%
Rick Green	7842	54.3
Kurt Alberts (X)	6588	45.7

Maple Ridge

Candidate	Vote	%
Ernie Daykin	6302	45.4
Michael Sather	3889	28.0
Gordy Robson (X)	3680	26.5

Merritt

Candidate	Vote	%
Susan Roline (X)	1184	60.5
David Laird	647	33.0
Loris Keeler	65	3.3
Angie Koczkur	62	3.2

Mission

Candidate	Vote	%
James Atebe (X)	4483	80.7
Matt Johnson	1070	19.3

Nanaimo

Candidate	Vote	%
John Ruttan	9032	46.2
Diane Brennan	6975	35.7
Gary Korpan (X)	3119	16.0
Larry Iwaskow	413	2.1

Nelson

Candidate	Vote	%
John A. Dooley (X)	1748	50.7
David Aaron	944	27.4
Gordon McAdams	704	20.4
Philip McMillan	55	1.6

New Westminster

Candidate	Vote	%
Wayne Wright (X)	5620	57
Blair Armitage	4238	43

North Cowichan

Candidate	Vote	%
Tom Walker	3062	51.3
Jon Lefebvre (X)	2907	48.7

North Saanich

Candidate	Vote	%
Alice Finall	2466	54.8
Ted Daly (X)	2036	45.2

North Vancouver (city)

Candidate	Vote	%
Darrell Mussatto	Acclaimed

North Vancouver (district municipality)

Candidate	Vote	%
Richard Walton	Acclaimed

Oak Bay

Candidate	Vote	%
Christopher Causton (X)	4519	92.5
Ronald Telfer	365	7.5

Parksville

Candidate	Vote	%
Ed F. Mayne	1616	42.2
Kim Burden	1033	27.0
Sandy Herle (X)	779	20.3
Dalls Collis	404	10.5

Penticton

Candidate	Vote	%
Dan Ashton	4704	55.9
Gary Leaman	1793	21.3
Jake Kimberley (X)	1478	17.6
Finn Larsen	339	4.0
Benjamin Wolfe	96	1.1

Pitt Meadows

Candidate	Vote	%
Don MacLean (X)	1488	57.6
Jim Peters	1095	42.4

Port Alberni

Candidate	Vote	%
Ken McRae (X)	2386	63.2
Jen Fisher-Bradley	1079	28.6
Jacques Savard	308	8.2

Port Coquitlam

Candidate	Vote	%
Greg Moore	5949	56.2
Mike Bowen	4473	42.2
Patrick Alambets	169	1.6

Port Moody

Candidate	Vote	%
Joe Trasolini (X)	2780	65.3
Shane Kennedy	1354	31.8
Arthur Crossman	124	2.9

Powell River

Candidate	Vote	%
Stewart Alsgard (X)	1739
Jeffrey Renn	1078
Derry Simpson	1000
Les Magura	241
Paddy Goggins	191
Heinz Becker	176
Michael Ashworth	117

Prince George

Candidate	Vote	%
Dan Rogers	9270	54.8
Don Zurowski	6505	38.4
Dane Greenwell	573	3.4
Eugene Fetterly	550	3.3

Prince Rupert

Candidate	Vote	%
Jack Mussallem (X)	1919	52
Don Scott	1762	48

Qualicum Beach

Candidate	Vote	%
Teunis Westbroek (X)	2813	73
Wendy Maurer	1043	27

Quesnel

Candidate	Vote	%
Mary Sjostrom	1856	54
Nate Bello (X)	1606	46

Revelstoke

Candidate	Vote	%
David Raven	1458	55.2
William MacFarlane	1000	37.9
Matt Singh	184	7.0

Richmond

Candidate	Vote	%
Malcolm Brodie (X)	19694	73.7
Ivan Gerlach	5207	19.5
Wei Ping Chen	1811	6.8

Saanich

Candidate	Vote	%
Frank Leonard (X)	11972
Harald Wolf	4665

Salmon Arm

Candidate	Vote	%
Marty Bootsma (X)	1792
Charles Nash	1488
Marg Kentel	1378
Nancy Cooper	1089

Sechelt

Candidate	Vote	%
Darren Inkster	1847	67
Cameron Reid (X)	906	33

Sidney

Candidate	Vote	%
Larry Cross	1807
Mel Couvelier	839
Peter Wainwright	641

Sooke

Candidate	Vote	%
Janet Evans	1597	48.5
Rick Kasper	1284	39.0
Randy Welters	413	12.5

Spallumcheen

Candidate	Vote	%
Will Hansma (X)	733	59.6
Dustin Griffin	267	21.7
Guenter Rieger	230	18.7

Squamish

Candidate	Vote	%
Greg Gardner	3557
Terrill Paterson	715
John Erickson	146

Summerland

Candidate	Vote	%
Janice Perrino	2183	56.9
Peter Waterman	1651	43.1

Surrey

Candidate	Vote	%
Dianne Watts (X)	51423	85.9
Murray Weisenberger	8465	14.1

Terrace

Candidate	Vote	%
David Pernarowski	1347	48
Jack Talstra (X)	1076	38.3
Murray Hamer	384	13.7

Trail

Candidate	Vote	%
Dieter Bogs (X)	Acclaimed

Vancouver

Main article: 2008 Vancouver municipal election

Candidate	Vote	%
Gregor Robertson	67598	54.9
Peter Ladner	48794	39.6
Betty Krawczyk	1346	1.1
Marc Emery	1119	0.9
Scott Yee	942	0.8
Patrick Britten	695	0.6
Jeff Kuah	600	0.5
Mike Hansen	483	0.4
Angel Jiminez	320	0.3
Leon Kaplan	299	0.2
Bill Ritchie	252	0.2
Joe Hatoum	241	0.2
Golok Buday	172	0.1
Menard Caissy	137	0.1
R.H. Maxwell N Bur	125	0.1

Vernon

Candidate	Vote	%
Wayne Lippert (X)	2728
Juliette Cunningham	2363
Rick Thorburn	825
Anthony Stamboulieh	787
Steve Campbell	538
Floyd Edwards	148

Victoria

Candidate	Vote	%
Dean Fortin	7706
Rob Reid	7105
Steve Filipovic	1411
Saul Andersen	172
Kristen Woodruff	149
Hugh Kruzel	107
Georgia-Anne Jones	106
Ron Taylor	83

View Royal

Candidate	Vote	%
Graham Hill (X)	Acclaimed

West Vancouver

Candidate	Vote	%
Pam Goldsmith-Jones (X)	3185	33
Vivian Vaughan	2552	22
John Clark	1357	18
Max Clough	3420	27

Whistler

Candidate	Vote	%
Ken Melamed (X)	1527	53
Kristi Wells	1218	42
Brian Walker	63	2
Miro Kolvek	54	1.9
JB Bhandari	3	0.1

White Rock

Candidate	Vote	%
Catherine Ferguson (X)	3738	67.7
Stewart Peddemors	1784	33.3

Williams Lake

Candidate	Vote	%
Kerry Cook (X)	1583	53.3
Paul French	1387	46.7

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