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Pete Fry

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Pete Fry
Vancouver City Councillor
Assumed office
November 5, 2018
Personal details
Born1969 or 1970 (age 55–56)[1]
Ireland
Political partyGreen Party
RelativesHedy Fry (mother)
ResidenceVancouver

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] He was re-elected as a city councillor in the 2022 Vancouver municipal election. [8]

Born in Ireland, Fry immigrated with his family to Vancouver as a child.[2][9] His mother is Hedy Fry, the federal Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre.[1][10]

Electoral record

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2022 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
ABC Vancouver Sarah Kirby-Yung (X) 72,545 42.30 Green tickY
ABC Vancouver Lisa Dominato (X) 70,415 41.05 Green tickY
ABC Vancouver Brian Montague 68,618 40.01 Green tickY
ABC Vancouver Mike Klassen 65,586 38.24 Green tickY
ABC Vancouver Peter Meiszner 63,275 36.90 Green tickY
ABC Vancouver Rebecca Bligh (X) 62,765 36.60 Green tickY
ABC Vancouver Lenny Zhou 62,393 36.39 Green tickY
Green Adriane Carr (X) 41,831 24.39 Green tickY
OneCity Christine Boyle (X) 38,465 22.43 Green tickY
Green Pete Fry (X) 37,270 21.73 Green tickY
Forward Together Dulcy Anderson 33,985 19.82
OneCity Iona Bonamis 33,745 19.68
Forward Together Tesicca Truong 32,900 19.18
COPE Jean Swanson (X) 32,833 19.15
Green Michael Wiebe (X) 30,377 17.71
OneCity Ian Cromwell 29,833 17.40
OneCity Matthew Norris 29,663 17.30
Forward Together Alvin Singh 29,049 16.94
NPA Melissa De Genova (X) 26,578 15.50
COPE Breen Ouellette 24,881 14.51
Forward Together Jeanette Ashe 22,432 13.08
Forward Together Russil Wvong 22,107 12.89
Green Devyani Singh 21,255 12.39
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver Cleta Brown 20,854 12.16
Green Stephanie Smith 20,408 11.90
Forward Together Hilary Brown 19,902 11.61
COPE Nancy Trigueros 19,152 11.17
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver Sean Nardi 18,353 10.70
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver Grace Quan 17,955 10.47
COPE Tanya Webking 17,675 10.31
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver Bill Tieleman 17,240 10.05
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver Stephen Roberts 16,261 9.48
Vision Stuart Mackinnon 15,865 9.25
NPA Morning Lee 14,083 8.21
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver Param Nijjar 13,950 8.13
VOTE Socialist Sean Orr 13,744 8.01
Progress Vancouver Asha Hayer 13,107 7.64
NPA Ken Charko 12,083 7.47
Vision Lesli Boldt 11,070 6.46
NPA Elaine Allan 10,917 6.37
Affordable Housing Coalition Eric Redmond 10,617 6.19
NPA Arezo Zarrabian 10,361 6.04
Progress Vancouver Marie Noelle Rosa 10,111 5.90
Progress Vancouver Morgane Oger 10,015 5.84
Progress Vancouver David Chin 9,354 5.45
Progress Vancouver May He 8,593 5.01
NPA Cinnamon Bhayani 8,586 5.01
Independent Lina Vargas 7,714 4.50
Vision Honieh Barzegari 6,831 3.98
Progress Vancouver Mauro Francis 6,556 3.82
Independent Mark Bowen 5,706 3.33
Independent Dominic Denofrio 4,927 2.87
Independent Amy "Evil Genius" Fox 3,711 2.16
Independent Jeremy MacKenzie 3,446 2.01
Independent Kyra Philbert 3,382 1.97
Independent Tim Lý 3,339 1.95
Independent Marlo Franson 2,866 1.67
Independent Amie Peacock 2,745 1.60
Independent K. R. Alm 2,301 1.34
'(X)' indicates incumbent city councillor.
Percentage of votes shown is percentage of voters who voted, not votes cast.
2018 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
Green (I) Adriane Carr 69,739 39.52 Green tickY
Green Pete Fry 61,806 35.03 Green tickY
NPA (I) Melissa De Genova 53,251 30.18 Green tickY
COPE Jean Swanson 48,865 27.69 Green tickY
NPA Colleen Hardwick 47,747 27.06 Green tickY
Green (O) Michael Wiebe 45,593 25.84 Green tickY
OneCity Christine Boyle 45,455 25.76 Green tickY
NPA (O) Lisa Dominato 44,689 25.33 Green tickY
NPA Rebecca Bligh 44,053 24.97 Green tickY
NPA (O) Sarah Kirby-Yung 43,581 24.70 Green tickY
NPA David Grewal 41,913 23.75
Green David H. Wong 40,887 23.17
Vision (I) Heather Deal 39,529 22.40
COPE Derrick O'Keefe 38,305 21.71
NPA Justin P. Goodrich 37,917 21.49
COPE Anne Roberts 36,531 20.70
OneCity Brandon O. Yan 36,167 20.50
NPA Jojo Quimpo 34,601 19.61
Independent Sarah Blyth 29,456 16.69
Vision Tanya Paz 28,836 16.34
Vision Diego Cardona 27,325 15.49
Vision (O) Catherine Evans 25,124 14.24
Independent (O) Erin Shum 23,331 13.22
Vancouver 1st Ken Low 21,908 12.42
Independent Adrian Crook 17,392 9.86
Vision Wei Q. Zhang 16,734 9.48
Coalition Vancouver Ken Charko 16,366 9.28
Coalition Vancouver James Lin 16,191 9.18
Independent Wade Grant 15,422 8.74
Independent Taqdir K. Bhandal 15,326 8.69
Vancouver 1st Elizabeth Taylor 15,184 8.61
Coalition Vancouver Penny Mussio 14,886 8.44
Yes Vancouver Brinder Bains 13,948 7.90
Yes Vancouver Stephanie Ostler 13,530 7.67
Coalition Vancouver Jason Xie 13,424 7.61
Yes Vancouver Glynnis C. Chan 13,218 7.49
Coalition Vancouver Glen Chernen 13,148 7.45
Coalition Vancouver Morning Li 12,614 7.15
Vancouver 1st Nycki K. Basra 12,133 6.88
Yes Vancouver Jaspreet Virdi 12,124 6.87
Coalition Vancouver Franco Peta 11,193 6.34
Yes Vancouver Phyllis Tang 11,902 6.75
Independent Rob McDowell 11,828 6.70
Independent Penny Noble 11,435 6.48
Independent Graham Cook 11,084 6.28
Vancouver 1st Michelle C. Mollineaux 8,819 5.00
ProVancouver Raza Mirza 8,783 4.98
Vancouver 1st Jesse Johl 8,609 4.88
Independent Barbara Buchanan 8,180 4.64
ProVancouver Breton Crellin 7,856 4.45
Vancouver 1st Elishia Perosa 7,489 4.24
Independent Anastasia Koutalianos 7,469 4.23
Independent Abubakar Khan 7,239 4.10
Vancouver 1st John Malusa 6,597 3.74
Independent Lisa Kristiansen 6,506 3.69
ProVancouver Rohana D. Rezel 6,336 3.59
Independent Françoise Raunet 5,891 3.34
Independent Hamdy El-Rayes 5,381 3.05
Independent Hsin-Chen Fu 5,007 2.84
Independent Justin Caudwell 4,488 2.54
Independent Harry Miedzygorski 4,308 2.44
Independent Gordon T. Kennedy 4,297 2.44
Independent Ashley Hughes 3,965 2.25
Independent Kelly Alm 3,440 1.95
Independent Marlo Franson 3,316 1.88
Independent John Spark 3,287 1.86
Independent Katherine Ramdeen 3,082 1.75
Independent Spike Peachey 2,863 1.62
Independent Larry J. Falls 2,768 1.57
Independent Elke Porter 2,515 1.43
Independent Ted Copeland 1,946 1.10
'(I)' denotes incumbent city councillors.
'(O)' denotes incumbents of other municipal positions.
Vancouver municipal by-election, October 14, 2017: City Council
Resignation of Geoff Meggs
Party Candidate Votes % Elected
NPA Hector Bremner 13,372 27.83 Green tickY
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
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
New Democratic Melanie Mark 5,627 60.14 −5.69 $71,603
Green Pete Fry 2,533 27.07 +15.15 $29,065
Liberal Gavin Dew 1,056 11.29 −7.45 $66,547
Libertarian Bonnie Boya Hu 79 0.85 $250
Your Political Party Jeremy Gustafson 61 0.65 $454
Total valid votes 9,356 100.00
Total rejected ballots 44 0.46 −0.51
Turnout 9,400 23.17 −26.60
Registered voters 40,561
New Democratic hold Swing −10.42
2014 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council
Party Candidate Votes Elected
Green Adriane Carr 74,077 Green tickY
NPA George Affleck 68,419 Green tickY
NPA Elizabeth Ball 67,195 Green tickY
NPA Melissa De Genova 63,134 Green tickY
Vision Heather Deal 62,698 Green tickY
Vision Kerry Jang 62,595 Green tickY
Vision Andrea Reimer 62,316 Green tickY
Vision Raymond Louie 61,903 Green tickY
Vision Tim Stevenson 57,640 Green tickY
Vision Geoff Meggs 56,831 Green tickY
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

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  1. ^ a b c MacLeod, Andrew (January 18, 2016). "Byelection Battle: Meet Candidates Vying for Vancouver Mount-Pleasant". The Tyee. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  2. ^ a b "About". Petefry.ca. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019.
  3. ^ "Vancouver election 2014: Full results for mayor, council, school and park board". Global BC. November 16, 2014. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  4. ^ "B.C. NDP candidates Jodie Wickens and Melanie Mark win Metro Vancouver byelections". CBC News. February 2, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  5. ^ "Pete Fry to run for Green Party of Vancouver in city by-election". CBC News. August 17, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  6. ^ McElroy, Justin (October 14, 2017). "NPA's Hector Bremner wins council seat in Vancouver byelection". CBC News. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  7. ^ Lindsay, Bethany (October 20, 2018). "Kennedy Stewart elected mayor of Vancouver". CBC News. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  8. ^ "City of Vancouver 2022 election results".
  9. ^ Pablo, Carlito (October 24, 2018). "Mixed-race heritage stirs Vancouver councillor-elect Pete Fry to champion city's diversity". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved December 8, 2019.
  10. ^ Fry, Pete (October 29, 2014). "Pete Fry: A better city together". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved December 8, 2019.