Burnaby students denied the Burnaby Citizens Association a third sweep of city council Saturday.
In a parallel election run by Student Vote, 1,463 kids from 14 local elementary and secondary schools elected two Burnaby First Coalition councillors: Linda Hancott and Jason Chan, with 471 and 552 votes respectively.
BCA councillors-elect Nick Volkow and James Wang, who won seats in Saturday’s grown-up election, didn’t make the cut among students.
Wang was 49 votes behind Hancott, while Volkow was 54 votes off the pace.
One thing local students and their parents did agree on was their choice for mayor.
Incumbent Derek Corrigan garnered 886 votes – 666 more than independent Helen Chang and 701 more than Burnaby First mayoral candidate Daren Hancott.
Student Vote is an Ontario-based program that has organized authentic parallel elections for students across Canada since 2003.
This was the program’s first municipal election in B.C., and in the interest of simplifying the ballot, organizers said they decided to make trustee candidates optional this time around.
For full Student Vote results, visit, www.studentvote.ca.
