Candidate for the Vancouver Park Board.
Scott Jensen, ballot number 220 for Park Board in Vancouver, Vancouver Liberals. Profile focus: Park Board decisions and recreation investment.
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Scott Jensen is a sitting Vancouver Park Board commissioner, elected in 2022, and is the Vancouver Liberals candidate for Park Board at ballot number 220 in the October 17, 2026 election. This record covers the 2022 result, the split with ABC Vancouver over the plan to abolish the Park Board, the move to the Vancouver Liberals in January 2026, and the campaign's stated priorities.
1 upcoming public event were found in the sources checked on September 22, 2026. An event being scheduled does not mean this candidate will attend. Attendance is marked separately.
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Kerrisdale Community Centre, 5851 West Boulevard
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A meeting for Park Board candidates in a non-partisan format, moderated by writer and journalist Jarryd Jager.
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Scott Jensen appears on the City of Vancouver's final 2026 candidate list for Park Board, with ballot number 220. The City records the affiliation as Vancouver Liberals.
The official roster for the current term lists Scott Jensen as a Vancouver Park Board commissioner. That is a separate office from the one on this 2026 ballot entry.
The page says Jensen is a current Park Board Commissioner running again with the Vancouver Liberals. The page says Jensen was first elected in 2022 and then became chair of the Park Board. The page says Jensen teaches grade three with the Vancouver School Board at Lord Robert’s Elementary School.
Jensen was elected to the Vancouver Park Board in the 2022 election as an ABC Vancouver candidate, with 71,174 votes, the highest total of any Park Board candidate that year.
Daily Hive reported that Jensen served as the Park Board's first Indigenous chair during the current term.
On December 6, 2023 Jensen, Brennan Bastyovanszky and Laura Christensen left ABC Vancouver and sat as independents after Mayor Ken Sim proposed ending the separately elected Park Board through a provincial charter change. Daily Hive reported the three were removed from the party after opposing the proposal.
On January 18, 2026 Jensen joined the Vancouver Liberals, giving the new party its first sitting elected official ahead of the October 2026 election.
Daily Hive described Jensen as a full-time teacher. The campaign page says Jensen teaches grade three at Lord Roberts Elementary School under the Vancouver School Board.
The campaign page says Jensen is a lifelong lacrosse player and calls the sport the medicine game for Indigenous communities.
Daily Hive listed Jensen at ballot number 220 for Park Board on September 22, 2026.
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Jensen opposed Mayor Ken Sim's plan to abolish the separately elected Park Board and left ABC Vancouver over it in December 2023.
Jensen told CBC News on July 13, 2026 that the promise for re-election is to keep showing up and working and to try to make sure the Park Board is not in the news.
The campaign page says the Park Board has put 90 per cent of its infrastructure plan in place under Jensen's time as chair, including two new community centres coming to Vancouver.
The campaign page says Jensen's priorities are affordability, livability, sustainability and protecting public assets, and describes parks as gathering places for families, seniors and children.
The campaign page says Jensen backs transparent, community-driven stewardship of public assets and a practical approach to governing that works across different points of view.
The campaign page says Jensen joined the Vancouver Liberals to support mayoral candidate Kareem Allam, citing evidence-informed decision-making and restoring trust and stability at City Hall.
The campaign says Jensen treats parks and public spaces as community assets that should be run with open decisions and community input.
The page says Jensen and other commissioners opposed an effort to end the park board.
The page says the Park Board has carried out 90% of its infrastructure plan, including two new community centres.
The page says Jensen sees parks as places where families, communities, seniors and children come together.
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Jensen said the Vancouver Liberals are the progressive party for Vancouver, described Mayor Ken Sim as the biggest enemy of the city's parks and mayoral candidate Kareem Allam as their biggest defender. Allam said in reply that Jensen understands what is at stake for the city.
After Mayor Ken Sim said ABC would no longer try to eliminate the Park Board, Jensen told CBC News the re-election promise is to keep showing up and working and to try to keep the Park Board out of the news, and defended the board's work over the past four years.
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The record of the Vancouver Park Board shows that on December 6, 2023 Jensen, Brennan Bastyovanszky and Laura Christensen left ABC Vancouver to sit as independents after Mayor Ken Sim proposed ending the separately elected board through a provincial charter change. Daily Hive reported the three were removed from the party after opposing the proposal.
Daily Hive quoted Jensen in January 2026 describing Ken Sim as the biggest enemy of the city's parks. The campaign page says Jensen and colleagues defended the Park Board against the abolition effort.
Jensen sat as an independent until January 18, 2026 and then joined the Vancouver Liberals. CBC News reported on July 13, 2026 that Sim said ABC would no longer try to eliminate the board and would run candidates for it.
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Daily Hive reported Jensen's move to the Vancouver Liberals, noted it gave the party its first sitting elected official, recounted the December 2023 removal from ABC Vancouver over the abolition plan, and quoted Jensen and party leader Kareem Allam.
The Indo-Canadian Voice reported Jensen joining the Vancouver Liberal Electors Association, described Jensen as the board's first Indigenous chair and as the first sitting Liberal municipal official in Vancouver in 90 years, and quoted Jensen and Allam.
CBC News reported Mayor Ken Sim dropping the plan to eliminate the Park Board and quoted Jensen on running for re-election. The article also names Brennan Bastyovanszky as another former ABC commissioner running again with the Vancouver Liberals.
Daily Hive published the full ballot order and placed Jensen at number 220 among 35 Park Board candidates.
Sources checked September 22, 2026. Official records establish decisions; campaign material establishes stated positions; reporting adds investigation and context. None alone establishes every claim.
City of Vancouver
City of Vancouver
Vancouver Liberals · January 18, 2026
Daily Hive · January 18, 2026
Indo-Canadian Voice · January 18, 2026
CBC News, republished by Yahoo News Canada · July 13, 2026
Wikipedia
Daily Hive · September 22, 2026
Kerrisdale Community Centre
The City of Vancouver website returns an error to automated requests, so the official Park Board minutes and voting record for Jensen's term were not reviewed. No source found names how Jensen voted on the April 2025 decision to build a 25-metre pool at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre, so no vote is attributed here. The campaign's claim that 90 per cent of the infrastructure plan has been carried out, and the claim of two new community centres, come from the campaign page alone and were not independently confirmed, and the page does not name the two centres. The campaign page names a school where Jensen teaches; no independent source confirming that was found. The Vancouver Liberals have not published a separate Park Board platform document that could be opened.
Evidence reviewed on September 22, 2026: Current campaign material; biographical claims require corroboration.
Campaign page read on September 22, 2026. 4 stated positions and 3 background facts recorded here, each checked against a quotation from that page.
Checks still to do: Use official commissioner records and test numerical accomplishment claims against project reports.
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The official roster lists Scott Jensen in this office during the term that ends with the 2026 election. Individual votes and decisions have not been reviewed for this profile.
City of Vancouver · current Park Board commissionersDaily Hive described Jensen as a full-time teacher. The campaign page says Jensen teaches grade three at Lord Roberts Elementary School.
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