Vancouver votes: 25 polls open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in 2-seat byelection [Video]

Vancouverites will elect two new people to city council on Saturday, nine weeks after candidates began coming forward to run in a byelection seen as a citywide referendum on the party with a majority on council. 

Polls are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at 25 locations across the city.

Vancouver residents 18 years of age or older can vote and, if unregistered, can do so at voting locations with two pieces of identification or by other lower-barrier methods.

The City of Vancouver’s byelection portal is here.

The two-seat byelection comes 2½ years after Mayor Ken Sim and his centre-right ABC Vancouver party swept to victory, taking seven of 10 council seats.

The party was elected to a four-year mandate on a platform of public safety, fiscal responsibility and development and density but has since adopted other priorities such as dissolving the elected park board, pausing net-new supportive housing in the city and entertaining investments in bitcoin.