It’s hard to keep up with Vancouver’s swirl of entrants, parties, quotas and alliances in the 2018 civic election. So anything that helps to focus and identify front-runners is more than welcome.

We just hope that poll predictions don’t become self-fulfilling, by a de facto elimination process. 

Mario Canseco of Research Co. published public polling results for both party and mayoral rankings on June 14, 2018.

Party positivity is intriguing:

• Greens 54%
• Vision 31%
• NPA 30%
• COPE 28%
• One City 17%
• Coalition Vancouver 17%
• ProVancouver 11%

With Adriane Carr declining to join the list of 8 candidates for Mayor, one wonders if she’ll pragmatically anoint someone with the coveted Royal Green Mojo.

The mayoral candidates’ popularity ranking is:

Who knows?   47%

For those having a preference   53%

• Kennedy Stewart (Indep)  26%
• Ken Sim (NPA)   23%
• Ian Campbell (Vision)  18%
• Hector Bremner (n/a)   10%
• Shauna Sylvester (Indep)  9%
• Patrick Condon (COPE)   8%
• David Chen (ProVancouver)  4%
• Wai Young (Coalition Vancouver)  3%

Allen Garr writes in the Tyee with further thoughts, in particular, on Councillor Raymond Louie’s decision to not run for council.

Vision’s days as a majority party may, in fact, be numbered. And one-party dominance of City Council along with it.