Devyani Singh wins a council seat for COPE with 65,473 votes

The City's preliminary count, reported by Daily Hive on October 18, gives Devyani Singh 65,473 votes. The count is labelled preliminary; the official result has not yet been declared. Singh placed fourth among the ten winning council candidates in that count. The full preliminary results are on the voche.me results page.

Devyani Singh ran on the COPE slate. COPE, the Coalition of Progressive Electors, won four of the ten council seats on October 17: Sean Orr, Annette Reilly, Chloe Leslie, and Devyani Singh, according to the preliminary count.

According to the COPE party page and reporting by the Ubyssey, Singh is a climate scientist, financial analyst, and economist. The COPE page describes her as a lead researcher at Stand.earth. The University of British Columbia library holds a 2019 doctoral thesis by a Devyani Singh in the Forestry program, focused on clean cooking fuels and their effects on forests.

Yes. Singh ran for the BC Greens in Vancouver-Point Grey in the 2020 provincial election, finishing third with 17.27 percent. Singh also ran for the federal Green Party in Vancouver Quadra in 2021, taking 6 percent. In the 2022 Vancouver municipal election, Singh ran for city council with the Green Party of Vancouver and received 21,255 votes, finishing 23rd of 59 council candidates, with 10 seats available. In 2024, Singh ran again provincially in Vancouver-Point Grey for the BC Greens.

Reporter Charlie Smith, writing in the Indo-Canadian Voice on October 18, noted that since 1886, only one person born in India had previously been elected to Vancouver city council: Setty Pendakur in 1972. Smith described Singh as 'Uttarakhand-raised' and called her election historically notable. voche.me has not independently verified the historical claim; it is attributed to Smith and the Indo-Canadian Voice.

According to the preliminary count, COPE won four of the ten council seats. That group of four, alongside four Green councillors and one councillor from OneCity, gives progressive parties a combined nine of the eleven council seats, including Mayor Pete Fry's. No single party holds a majority.

The full preliminary count for all Vancouver races is on the voche.me results page at /results. The count listed there is sourced from Daily Hive's reporting of the City's October 18 preliminary count. The official results will be declared no later than October 21, 2026, under section 108 of the Vancouver Charter.

Devyani Singh is elected to Vancouver City Council, which is one of the four offices on the October 17 ballot. City Council has ten seats. Council members make decisions on the city budget, zoning, permits, and city services. Singh will serve a four-year term starting when the new council is sworn in.