It's been just over a year since ABC Vancouver came to power with Mayor Ken Sim leading essentially a sweep of the city's elected positions in the 2022 municipal elections.
Sim handily won the mayor's seat, while everyone who ran under the ABC banner won their seats as well.
Since taking office Sim and city council have faced a variety of issues, including issues in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) ranging from petty crime to housing to continued toxic drug deaths.
With the one-year anniversary of Sim's win, V.I.A. polled Vancouverites about how they thought it has gone.
It appears that the city is somewhat split; 27 per cent say he's been adequate, the most neutral of positions.
Only about a quarter of the local population are postive, with just over 26 per cent saying Sim has done "well" or "very well."
The negative options were much more popular, with a quarter of people picking "poorly" while more than a fifth of the city believes Sim has done "very poorly."
Vancouver Is Awesome polled 924 readers and asked the question: How has Mayor Ken Sim done after one year?
The poll ran from 10/22/2023 to 10/29/2023. Of the 924 votes, we can determine that 596 are from within the community. The full results are as follows:
Results are based on an online study of adult Vancouver Is Awesome readers that are located in Vancouver. The margin of error - which measures sample variability - is +/- 3.22%, 19 times out of 20.
Vancouver Is Awesome uses a variety of techniques to capture data, detect and prevent fraudulent votes, detect and prevent robots, and filter out non-local and duplicate votes.
