Non-Partisan Association - Electoral Success

Electoral Success

The NPA has often enjoyed electoral success during its history. It has held a majority on Vancouver City Council during many periods since 1941. Its majority on council has been interrupted during periods such as: 1967–70, 1972–78, 1982–86, 2002–05 and 2008–present. Its ability to elect a mayor was interrupted from 1958–1963, from 1973–1986, and since 2009, electing only three of the last eight mayors since 1972. Over the years, its opposition has been The Electors' Action Movement (TEAM) in the 1970s, the left-of-centre Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) in the 1980s, and left-of-centre Vision Vancouver in the 2000s.

There have been eleven NPA mayors of Vancouver:

• Jack (Jonathan Webster) Cornett (1941–46)
• Gerry McGeer (1947)
• Charles E. Jones (1947–48)
• George Clark Miller (acting) (1948)
• Charles Edwin Thompson (1949–50)
• Frederick Hume (1951–58)
• William Rathie (1963–66)
• Tom Campbell (Independent 1967–70, NPA from 1970–72)
• Gordon Campbell (1986–93)
• Philip Owen (1993–2002)
• Sam Sullivan (2005–08)

In Vancouver's recent civic election on November 19, 2011 the NPA won two seats on city council. Two members also sit on the Parks Board, and three members sit on the Vancouver School Board.