Sunday, November 16, 2014
Gregor Robertson retakes mayor's chair for the third time in Vancouver despite himself, Meena Wong third.
Gregor Robertson has pulled off a civic hat trick, becoming mayor of Vancouver for the third time.
The centre-left Vision Vancouver candidate’s main opponent, academic and former Vancouver Sun journalist Kirk LaPointe of the right-wing Non-Partisan Association (NPA), conceded defeat at 10:50 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 15.
Robertson led all evening after the polls closed. With all 129 polls reporting, Robertson had taken 83,529 votes to LaPointe’s 73,443 votes.
Meena Wong, the mayoral candidate for the progressive party COPE, came third with 16,791 votes.
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