{{short description|Canadian politician and business owner}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Pete Fry | image = Councillor Pete Fry (Color).jpg | office = Vancouver City Councillor | term_start1 = November 5, 2018 | term_end1 = | party = Green Party | birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|46|2016|1|18}}<ref name="Tyee160118"/> | birth_place = Ireland | parents = Hedy Fry (mother) | caption = Fry in 2018 }} '''Pete Fry''' is a Canadian politician and business owner who has served as a Vancouver city councillor since 2018 as a member of the Green Party of Vancouver.

== Early life and career == Born in Ireland to Anglo-Trinidadian parents, Fry immigrated with his family to Vancouver as a child.<ref name="About">{{Cite web |url=http://petefry.ca/about |title=About |website=Petefry.ca |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209041019/http://www.petefry.ca/about |archive-date=December 9, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pablo |first=Carlito |date=October 24, 2018 |title=Mixed-race heritage stirs Vancouver councillor-elect Pete Fry to champion city's diversity |url=https://www.straight.com/news/1155111/mixed-race-heritage-stirs-vancouver-councillor-elect-pete-fry-champion-citys-diversity |accessdate=December 8, 2019 |work=The Georgia Straight |publisher=}}</ref> His mother is Hedy Fry, the federal Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre.<ref name="Tyee160118" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Fry |first=Pete |date=October 29, 2014 |title=Pete Fry: A better city together |url=https://www.straight.com/news/347001/pete-fry-better-city-together |accessdate=December 8, 2019 |work=The Georgia Straight |publisher=}}</ref>

Owner of a graphics and communications agency in Vancouver, Fry became involved in community activism, serving as community representative for the City of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Local Area Plan, as well as chair of the Strathcona Residents’ Association.<ref name="About" />

== Political career == Fry first ran for city council in the 2014 municipal election, but was not elected.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 16, 2014 |title=Vancouver election 2014: Full results for mayor, council, school and park board |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/1671925/vancouver-election-results-2014-full-results-for-mayor-council-school-and-park-board/ |accessdate=December 8, 2019 |work=Global BC |publisher=}}</ref>

He then secured the nomination of the Green Party of British Columbia in a 2016 provincial by-election in the riding of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant,<ref name="Tyee160118">{{Cite news |last=MacLeod |first=Andrew |date=January 18, 2016 |title=Byelection Battle: Meet Candidates Vying for Vancouver Mount-Pleasant |url=https://thetyee.ca/News/2016/01/18/Byelection-Vancouver-Mount-Pleasant/ |accessdate=December 8, 2019 |work=The Tyee |publisher=}}</ref> where he lost to British Columbia New Democratic Party candidate Melanie Mark.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 2, 2016 |title=B.C. NDP candidates Jodie Wickens and Melanie Mark win Metro Vancouver byelections |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouver-byelection-results-1.3431356 |accessdate=December 8, 2019 |work=CBC News |publisher=}}</ref> In 2017, he ran for Vancouver City Council a second time, in the by-election following the resignation of Geoff Meggs;<ref>{{Cite news |date=August 17, 2017 |title=Pete Fry to run for Green Party of Vancouver in city by-election |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pete-fry-to-run-for-green-party-of-vancouver-in-city-by-election-1.4250951 |access-date=December 8, 2019 |work=CBC News |publisher=}}</ref> he lost to Non-Partisan Association candidate Hector Bremner.<ref>{{Cite news |last=McElroy |first=Justin |date=October 14, 2017 |title=NPA's Hector Bremner wins council seat in Vancouver byelection |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-byelection-council-results-1.4355617 |accessdate=December 8, 2019 |work=CBC News |publisher=}}</ref> At the 2018 city council election, Fry received the second highest number of votes and was elected councillor.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lindsay |first=Bethany |date=October 20, 2018 |title=Kennedy Stewart elected mayor of Vancouver |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-municipal-election-2018-1.4841328 |accessdate=December 8, 2019 |work=CBC News |publisher=}}</ref> He was re-elected as a city councillor in the 2022 Vancouver municipal election.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://results.vancouver.ca/2022/results.html#results-councillor | title=City of Vancouver 2022 election results |website=City of Vancouver|access-date=2026-04-18}}</ref>

==Electoral record==

{{2022 Vancouver municipal election/City Council}} {{2018 Vancouver municipal election/City Council}} {{2017 Vancouver municipal by-election/City Council}} {{2016 British Columbia provincial by-elections/Vancouver-Mount Pleasant}}

{{Canadian election result/top|VAN|2014|Vancouver City Council|elected=yes}} {{CANelec|VAN|Green| Adriane Carr | 74,077 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| George Affleck| 68,419 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| Elizabeth Ball | 67,195 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| Melissa De Genova | 63,134 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Heather Deal | 62,698 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Kerry Jang | 62,595 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Andrea Reimer | 62,316 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Raymond Louie | 61,903 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Tim Stevenson | 57,640 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Geoff Meggs | 56,831 |elected=yes }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| Ian Robertson | 56,319 }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| Gregory Baker | 55,721 }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| Suzanne Scott | 55,486 }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| Ken Low | 54,971 }} {{CANelec|VAN|NPA| Rob McDowell | 53,596 }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Tony Tang | 49,414 }} {{CANelec|VAN|Vision| Niki Sharma | 48,987 }} {{CANelec|VAN|Green| Cleta Brown | 47,564 }} {{CANelec|VAN|Green| '''Pete Fry''' | 46,522 }} {{end}}

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