Byelection in the works after Vancouver councillor elected provincially

Vancouver volition request to clasp a byelection successful the coming months aft a sitting councillor was elected arsenic an NDP MLA successful the provincial election.

OneCity Coun. Christine Boyle was elected successful the riding of Vancouver-Little Mountain with much than 62 per cent of the vote.

On Tuesday, Boyle announced her resignation from council.

“It has been an honour to service the residents of Vancouver arsenic a councillor for the past six years,” Boyle said.

“I privation to convey the hard-working unit crossed the City of Vancouver and the residents who attraction truthful overmuch astir this city.”

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Boyle said she won’t formally resign until December aft metropolis unit asked her to hold to let them clip to hole for a byelection. She said she would instrumentality unpaid permission until then.

A spokesperson for the municipality said a councillor submitting their resignation to the metropolis clerk triggers the byelection.

Once it is received, the metropolis indispensable name a main predetermination officer, who indispensable past docket the byelection nary aboriginal than 80 days from their appointment.