KEN Sim made history on Saturday by becoming Vancouver’s first Chinese Canadian mayor — and his wife Teena Gupta is South Asian.
Sim (ABC Vancouver) soundly defeated incumbent mayor Kennedy Stewart (Forward with Kennedy Stewart), bagging 85,732 votes as compared to Stewart’s 49,593 votes.

Colleen Hardwick (TEAM) won 16,769 votes, Mark Marissen (Progress Vancouver) got 5,830 votes and Fred Harding (NPA) bagged 3,905 votes.

Sim, who was born and raised in Vancouver, is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of two successful Vancouver-based companies: Rosemary Rocksalt and Nurse Next Door. With over 8,000 team members, Nurse Next Door now serves over 200 locations across three countries.

Sim’s ABC Vancouver party also won a solid majority on Council (seven out of 10 seats) and Park Board (six out of seven), and a majority on School Board (five out of nine seats).

Council:

ABC Vancouver candidates:

* Sarah Kirby-Yung: 72,545

* Lisa Dominato: 70,415

* Brian Montague: 68,618

* Mike Klassen: 65,586

* Peter Meiszner: 63,275

* Rebecca Bligh: 62,765

* Lenny Zhou: 62,393

Others:

* Adriane Carr (Green): 41,831

* Christine Boyle (OneCity): 38,465

* Pete Fry (Green): 37,270

Park Board winners:

ABC Vancouver’s Scott Jensen, Angela Haer, Laura Christensen, Marie-Claire Howard, Jas Virdi and Brennan Bastyovanszky, and Green Party’s Tom Digby.

School Board winners:

ABC Vancouver’s Victoria Jung, Alfred Chien, Josh Zhang, JK Christopher Richardson and Preeti Faridkot; along with Jennifer Reddy (OneCity), Suzie Mah (COPE), Lois Chan-Pedley (Green) and Janet Fraser (Green).