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"twitter:title": "Which parties are running for School Board in Vancouver" --- 9 SEATS · OCTOBER 17, 2026 # Which parties are running for School Board Nine trustee seats on the Board of Education. 30 candidates are standing, from 8 parties plus 1 with no party. [All parties ](https://voche.me/parties) [Compare on the issues](https://voche.me/parties/compare) **9**Seats to fill **30**Candidates standing **8**Parties in this race **1**With no party WHAT THIS BODY DOES ## What you are electing Nine trustees run the Vancouver School Board. They approve the district budget, set catchment boundaries, decide which schools open, close or are sold, and set district policy such as whether police officers work in schools. What they do not control is the money. Teacher pay, the funding formula and seismic upgrade budgets are set by the province. A board can decide how to spend what it is given, and can argue publicly for more, and that argument is a large part of what trustees do. Five of nine seats carry a decision. School board races draw the least attention of the four on this ballot and are often decided by the smallest margins. LARGEST SLATE FIRST ## The parties contesting School Board ### [ABC Vancouver](https://voche.me/parties/abc-vancouver) · 7 of 9 seats [305**Alfred Chien (錢育廷)**Ballot 305 · Vancouver School Board trustee](https://voche.me/candidates/alfred-chien) [310**Shirley Sio (邵己凌)**Ballot 310](https://voche.me/candidates/shirley-sio) [311**Maria Kritikos**Ballot 311](https://voche.me/candidates/maria-kritikos) [312**Matt Kroeker**Ballot 312](https://voche.me/candidates/matt-kroeker) [316**Rob Nijjar**Ballot 316](https://voche.me/candidates/rob-nijjar) [320**Preeti Faridkot**Ballot 320 · Vancouver School Board trustee](https://voche.me/candidates/preeti-faridkot) [327**Lina Vargas**Ballot 327](https://voche.me/candidates/lina-vargas) ### [OneCity](https://voche.me/parties/onecity) · 5 of 9 seats [301**Krista Sigurdson**Ballot 301](https://voche.me/candidates/krista-sigurdson) [302**Rory Brown**Ballot 302](https://voche.me/candidates/rory-brown) [321**Sherry Breshears**Ballot 321](https://voche.me/candidates/sherry-breshears) [325**Christopher Lee (李基鵬)**Ballot 325](https://voche.me/candidates/christopher-lee) [328**Steve Cardwell**Ballot 328](https://voche.me/candidates/steve-cardwell) ### [Vancouver Liberals](https://voche.me/parties/vancouver-liberals) · 5 of 9 seats [300**Darren Boidman**Ballot 300](https://voche.me/candidates/darren-boidman) [308**Isabel Ochoa Prieto**Ballot 308](https://voche.me/candidates/isabel-ochoa-prieto) [313**Noosha Mehdian**Ballot 313](https://voche.me/candidates/noosha-mehdian) [326**Ishi Dinim**Ballot 326](https://voche.me/candidates/ishi-dinim) [329**Joshua Cameron**Ballot 329](https://voche.me/candidates/joshua-cameron) ### [COPE](https://voche.me/parties/cope) · 4 of 9 seats [304**Suzie Mah**Ballot 304 · Vancouver School Board trustee](https://voche.me/candidates/suzie-mah) [314**Melanie Cheng**Ballot 314](https://voche.me/candidates/melanie-cheng) [323**Derrick O'Keefe**Ballot 323](https://voche.me/candidates/derrick-o-keefe) [324**Gwen Giesbrecht**Ballot 324](https://voche.me/candidates/gwen-giesbrecht) ### [Vote Vancouver](https://voche.me/parties/vote-vancouver) · 3 of 9 seats [306**Tasha Doucas**Ballot 306](https://voche.me/candidates/tasha-doucas) [315**Mandy Potter**Ballot 315](https://voche.me/candidates/mandy-potter) [319**Amarys Joseph**Ballot 319](https://voche.me/candidates/amarys-joseph) ### [Green Party of Vancouver](https://voche.me/parties/green-party-of-vancouver) · 2 of 9 seats [303**Alisha Masongsong**Ballot 303](https://voche.me/candidates/alisha-masongsong) [330**Julie Strilesky**Ballot 330](https://voche.me/candidates/julie-strilesky) ### [TrueBlue Vancouver](https://voche.me/parties/trueblue-vancouver) · 2 of 9 seats [307**Travers Fenton**Ballot 307](https://voche.me/candidates/travers-fenton) [309**Blair Coleman**Ballot 309](https://voche.me/candidates/blair-coleman) ### [TEAM for a Livable Vancouver](https://voche.me/parties/team-for-a-livable-vancouver) · 1 of 9 seats [322**Kat Nystedt**Ballot 322](https://voche.me/candidates/kat-nystedt) NO PARTY ## 1 independent candidate These candidates have no party beside their name on the official list. They are not a group and share no platform. [317**Christopher JK Richardson**Ballot 317 · Vancouver School Board trustee](https://voche.me/candidates/christopher-jk-richardson) [What running without a party means ](https://voche.me/parties/independents) ### 3 parties are not contesting School Board - [Affordable Housing](https://voche.me/parties/affordable-housing) - [Bright Future Vancouver](https://voche.me/parties/bright-future-vancouver) - [Independent Parks Party](https://voche.me/parties/independent-parks-party) Each of these parties is running elsewhere on the same ballot. No candidate of theirs appears in this race on the official City of Vancouver candidate list. ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.