--- title: "Issue scores for every Vancouver 2026 candidate | voche.me" canonical_url: "https://voche.me/scores" last_updated: "2026-10-10T04:01:03.204Z" meta: description: "How complete and checkable each of the 129 Vancouver 2026 candidates' published plans are, issue by issue, every point quoted and sourced." "og:description": "How complete and checkable each of the 129 Vancouver 2026 candidates' published plans are, issue by issue, every point quoted and sourced." "og:title": "Issue scores for every Vancouver 2026 candidate" "twitter:description": "How complete and checkable each of the 129 Vancouver 2026 candidates' published plans are, issue by issue, every point quoted and sourced." "twitter:title": "Issue scores for every Vancouver 2026 candidate" --- ** # Every name on the ballot, and what each one has actually published. All 129 candidacies are read under the same ten points on every issue their office decides. Search for a person, a ballot number, a party or a subject. `/` ## Put the ballot in your own order [How the scoring works](https://voche.me/scores/method) voche.me never ranks candidates against each other, because we cannot source who you should choose. Say which issues matter to you and every candidate in a race is reordered by your own weights, with each issue score still on the row. [Rank them by your issues](https://voche.me/scores/rank) All 8 candidates for mayor, in ballot order: - [![Colleen Hardwick, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/colleen-hardwick-320.webp)Colleen Hardwick50](https://voche.me/candidates/colleen-hardwick) - [![Pete Fry, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/pete-fry-320.webp)Pete Fry51](https://voche.me/candidates/pete-fry) - [![Rebecca Bligh, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/rebecca-bligh-320.webp)Rebecca Bligh52](https://voche.me/candidates/rebecca-bligh) - [![Muhammad Ahmad, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/muhammad-ahmad-320.webp)Muhammad Ahmad53](https://voche.me/candidates/muhammad-ahmad) - [![Ken Sim, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/ken-sim-320.webp)Ken Sim54](https://voche.me/candidates/ken-sim) - [![Amauri Caliman, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/amauri-caliman-320.webp)Amauri Caliman55](https://voche.me/candidates/amauri-caliman) - [![Kareem Allam, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/kareem-allam-320.webp)Kareem Allam56](https://voche.me/candidates/kareem-allam) - [![Scott Gilbert, candidate portrait](https://voche.me/images/candidates/scott-gilbert-320.webp)Scott Gilbert57](https://voche.me/candidates/scott-gilbert) The other three races are larger: [56 for City Council](https://voche.me/scores/rank#office=city-council), [35 for Park Board](https://voche.me/scores/rank#office=park-board), [30 for School Board](https://voche.me/scores/rank#office=school-board). ## 12 issues The number on each row is how many of the candidates scored on that issue state a position on it in their own words, rather than leaving it to a party platform. Measured October 8, 2026. - [Parks and recreationOne office decides this. Best published plan scores 9 of 10.**33**of 35](https://voche.me/scores/parks) - [Schools and student supportOne office decides this. Best published plan scores 9 of 10.**25**of 30](https://voche.me/scores/schools) - [Governance and City Hall4 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 6 of 10.**96**of 129](https://voche.me/scores/governance) - [Housing supply and rental rules2 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 8 of 10.**46**of 64](https://voche.me/scores/housing) - [Economy and small business2 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 9 of 10.**38**of 64](https://voche.me/scores/economy) - [Culture and nightlife2 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 9 of 10.**34**of 64](https://voche.me/scores/culture) - [City taxes and the capital plan4 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 8 of 10.**65**of 129](https://voche.me/scores/taxes-and-budget) - [Transport and street design3 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 9 of 10.**49**of 99](https://voche.me/scores/transport) - [Climate and buildings3 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 8 of 10.**43**of 99](https://voche.me/scores/climate) - [Homelessness and the drug crisis2 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 8 of 10.**27**of 64](https://voche.me/scores/homelessness) - [Policing and public safety4 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 8 of 10.**50**of 129](https://voche.me/scores/public-safety) - [Child care3 offices decide this. Best published plan scores 5 of 10.**23**of 94](https://voche.me/scores/child-care) ## What earns a point The score counts how complete and checkable the published plan on this issue is. Whether the plan would work is a separate question, left to the reader. - **A position in the candidate’s own words**2 marks Two points for a statement on the issue that names the candidate as the person who will act. One point when only the party’s platform covers the issue and the candidate is not quoted. - **Names a mechanism the office controls**2 marks The candidate’s own statement names an instrument the elected body can adopt by its own vote: a bylaw, a budget line, a fee, a program, a land decision, a Board policy. - **States a measurable target**2 marks A number with a unit that describes what will exist or change: homes, spaces, days, kilometres, a percentage. - **States a cost or funding source**1 mark A dollar figure for the measure, or a named source of the money. - **States a timeline**1 mark A date, a year, or a term milestone such as the first budget. - **A dated, sourced action on the issue**1 mark A motion, a vote, a program delivered, a report authored or an organization led, in any public role, with a date and a source. - **Answered the voche.me question on the issue**1 mark The same question went to every candidate in the office. An answer that names the candidate earns the point. Every point on a candidate's own page shows the sentence it was read in and a link to the page that sentence came from, so a score can be recounted. [The full method, the searches and the bias table](https://voche.me/scores/method) ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.