Kerrisdale

Kerrisdale is an affluent west-side neighbourhood centred on its village commercial district along West 41st Avenue between Maple and Larch streets. With a population of roughly 14,000, it is one of Vancouver's wealthier areas — over a quarter of households earn more than $150,000 annually. The neighbourhood has undergone a significant demographic transformation since the 1990s: what was once a predominantly British-origin community is now about 42 percent Chinese-Canadian, reflecting waves of affluent Hong Kong immigrants who began arriving in the mid-1980s. The median age is roughly 45, well above the city average, and there are 44 percent more seniors than children. About 45 percent of dwellings are single-family detached homes, concentrated in the southern half of the neighbourhood, while the northern section along West 41st contains low-rise rental and condominium apartments.

Kerrisdale is reliably centre-right at all three levels of government. Provincially, it sits within Vancouver-Langara, a BC Liberal stronghold from the riding's creation in 1991 until the 2024 election, when the NDP narrowly won following BC United's collapse. Municipally, Kerrisdale was one of the NPA's strongest neighbourhoods, and in 2022 it transferred that allegiance to ABC Vancouver with even greater margins. Ken Sim won 71.4 percent of the vote across all Kerrisdale polling stations — one of his highest totals in the city — while Kennedy Stewart managed just 12.8 percent and Colleen Hardwick's TEAM took 11.0 percent. Sim dominated the advance vote at Kerrisdale Community Centre with roughly 75 percent support.

Municipal Issues

Public safety was the dominant campaign issue in Kerrisdale, as it was across the city. West 41st Avenue retailers experienced the effects of a 31-percent city-wide increase in reported shoplifting between 2021 and 2022. ABC's promise to hire 100 additional police officers and 100 mental health nurses aligned closely with voter priorities in a neighbourhood where public safety concerns consistently ranked at the top. The release of the documentary Vancouver Is Dying ten days before the election amplified these anxieties.

While the Broadway Plan corridor does not directly cover Kerrisdale, the broader Vancouver Plan — which proposed densification across lower-density neighbourhoods city-wide — was a significant concern. The Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods, which included Arbutus Ridge, Kerrisdale, and Shaughnessy area groups, opposed the Vancouver Plan as rushed and lacking adequate provision for amenities, schools, and green space. TEAM for a Livable Vancouver, the only party to oppose both the Broadway Plan and the Vancouver Plan outright, performed well in Kerrisdale relative to its city-wide average. The prospect of multiplex and missing-middle housing being introduced into Kerrisdale's large-lot RS-1 zoned areas generated opposition from residents protective of the neighbourhood's single-family character.

The Arbutus Greenway, a nine-kilometre rails-to-trails corridor running through the centre of Kerrisdale, was an ongoing local issue. The intersection of the greenway with West 41st Avenue was a point of contention, and TransLink identified this segment as a congestion hotspot. The Kerrisdale Community Centre Society also maintained a longstanding dispute with the Vancouver Park Board over governance, having voted overwhelmingly in 2017 to reject the Board's proposed Joint Operating Agreement.