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title: "Colleen Hardwick says TEAM fielded the best candidates but voters chose differently"
description: "The TEAM for a Livable Vancouver mayoral candidate reflects on finishing third for the second time, with a final count of 18,105 votes."
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last_updated: "2026-10-20T06:25:04.863Z"
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[Colleen Hardwick](/candidates/colleen-hardwick) of TEAM for a Livable Vancouver finished third in the 2026 Vancouver mayoral race with 18,105 votes, Bob Mackin reported on October 18. That is more than the 16,769 votes she received in 2022, but she finished third in both elections.

Pete Fry won the race with 98,404 votes, according to Mackin's report. Ken Sim came second with 67,467, and Kareem Allam received 10,580.

TEAM won no city council seats. The new council will be made up of five Greens, four COPE members, one OneCity councillor, and one ABC Vancouver councillor, according to the report.

Hardwick told Mackin that Vancouver's political climate keeps moving from one end to the other without finding balance. "As long as it keeps swinging from one end of the spectrum to the other end of the spectrum, we're never going to solve the complex problems that face us," she said. "That's the most striking thing."

She said the result was not what the city needed. "We've seen the pendulum swing," Hardwick said. The outcome, she told Mackin, was counter to what the city needed, which was balance between the parties.

Hardwick said TEAM had fielded the most qualified slate but that voters chose a set of winners who, in her view, lack the experience to run the city. Mackin's report did not include any response from the newly elected councillors to this assessment.

Hardwick ran for mayor in both 2022 and 2026. She received more votes this time but the gap between her total and the winning and second-place totals grew. Fry won by 30,937 votes over Sim, and Sim's total was 49,362 votes more than Hardwick's.

The preliminary results for all four races are on the [Vancouver election results page](/results) on this site. The City will declare the official results after its standard review period following voting day on 17 October 2026.

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