Vancouver-Little Mountain

Vancouver-Little Mountain is a new riding created in the 2024 redistribution, carved from portions of Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-False Creek, Vancouver-Langara, Vancouver-Kensington, and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant. It takes in the neighbourhoods of Riley Park, South Cambie, and parts of Mount Pleasant, centred on the geographic prominence of Queen Elizabeth Park atop Little Mountain. The riding blends the trendy restaurants and independent retail of Main Street with the quieter residential blocks south of King Edward Avenue and the institutional cluster around Nat Bailey Stadium and the VanDusen Botanical Garden.

Candidates

Christine Boyle (BC NDP) — Boyle is an ordained United Church minister and community organizer who co-founded the OneCity municipal party. She was elected to Vancouver City Council in 2018 and re-elected in 2022, leading the development of the city's Climate Emergency Action Plan. She secured the NDP nomination in April 2024 after defeating former city councillor Andrea Reimer.

John Coupar (Conservative Party) — Coupar served as a Vancouver Park Board Commissioner from 2011 to 2022. During his tenure, he secured capital funding for the Bloedel Conservatory roof replacement, new docks at Vanier Park, and a commercial kitchen at the Killarney Seniors Centre. He was credited with leading the campaign to save and restore the Bloedel Conservatory. In his professional career, he served as president of a carbon-neutral transportation company.

Wendy Hayko (BC Green Party) — Hayko has more than two decades of experience in emergency management, including disaster recovery and climate change response. She has worked with First Nations and local governments on emergency preparedness and served on national working groups for standards development in emergency social services and business continuity. She ran in the 2022 Vancouver-Quilchena by-election for the Greens.

Local Issues

As a newly created riding, Vancouver-Little Mountain had no incumbent and no established political identity, making it one of the more unpredictable contests in Vancouver. The NDP's strength across urban Vancouver and Boyle's profile as a sitting city councillor gave the party an advantage, but the riding's mixed demographic character — blending the progressive politics of Main Street with the more moderate residential neighbourhoods to the south — created space for a competitive race.

Housing affordability and the pace of densification were central concerns. The Main Street corridor had undergone significant change, with new apartment buildings and mixed-use developments replacing older commercial properties, and the NDP government's Bill 44 promised additional density across the riding's residential streets. Renters in the aging apartment buildings south of Broadway faced the familiar tension between the need for more housing supply and the risk of displacement through redevelopment. The Oakridge Centre transformation, partially within the riding's boundaries, was the most dramatic example of the scale of change underway.

The Broadway Subway project — a 5.7-kilometre extension of the Millennium Line from VCC-Clark to Arbutus Street — ran along the northern edge of the riding and had become a source of frustration for nearby businesses and residents. Construction, which began in 2021, had experienced significant delays, with the opening pushed back from 2025 to 2027. Businesses along Broadway reported revenue declines, and commercial vacancy rates along the corridor had risen sharply. The question of a future extension beyond Arbutus to UBC remained unresolved, adding uncertainty about the long-term transit and development trajectory of the area.