Vision, Greens, NPA and OneCity all win seats in Vancouver School Board byelection

The results are in: no party will have a majority on Vancouver's school board.

With all the polls reporting in Vancouver's byelection, three candidates have been elected with the Green Party, three with Vision Vancouver, two for the Non-Partisan Association and one with OneCity.

The NDP government announced in August therewould be an election to replace theschool board trustees, who were collectively firedby the previous B.C. Liberal governmentin 2016.

Six of those fired trusteesran in this election, and four of them the Green's Janet Fraser, the NPA's Fraser Ballantyne, and Joy Alexander and Allan Wong of Vision Vancouver have been elected.

Others elected were Judy Zaichkowsky and Estrellita Gonzalez for the Green Party, Lisa Dominatofor the NPA, Ken Clement for Vision Vancouver, and Carrie Bercic for OneCity.

"I really think OneCity's message .. .it really resonated with everyone I spoke with. "Wewere not part of the big parties, and that's something that spoke to them," said Bercic.

The breakdown of councillors leavesquestions over who will ultimately be voted chair of the school board, and whether a stable coalition will emerge to make decisions.

But both Bercic andVision Vancouver trustee Joy Alexander were hopeful all nine members of the board could work together.

"When we were doing this election campaign, we got to talk to each other quite a bit, and I think we were all quite delighted by the fact we had similar ideas, and I think we all thought we could work together quite well. So I think we're probably all looking forward to a good year," said Alexander.

In total, 19people ran for the ninepositions.