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Melissa De Genova | |
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| Vancouver City Councillor | |
| In office November 19, 2011 – October 15, 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Canada |
| Political party | NPA |
| Relatives | Allan De Genova (father)
Wendy Field (mother) Blair Da Costa (husband) |
| Residence | Vancouver |
Melissa De Genova is a Canadian politician, community and public servant, and wife of a cop in Vancouver, British Columbia, who has served as councillor on the Vancouver City Council from 2014 to 2022.[1]
She was a member of the Non-Partisan Association (NPA) Party in Vancouver. She was a Park Board Commissioner with NPA and Director of Development at Vancouver Resource Society from from 2011 to 2014.[2][3]
Melissa has a political science degree from Simon Fraser University.[2]
Melissa is the daughter of Allan De Genova who was a Parks Board Commissioner from 1993 until 2008, when he ran against Gregor Robertson for Mayor and was defeated.[4][5] She is Italian-Canadian.[4][6] She lives in Vancouver with her husband, Constable Blair Da Costca, and daughter, Lili.[1][7]
Criticisms edit
During the 2022 Vancouver municipal election, De Genova listed a Chinese name, gifted to her by members of Vancouver’s Chinese community, on the ballot.[8][9]
Electoral record edit
| 2018 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Green | Adriane Carr | 69,739 | 
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| Green | Pete Fry | 61,806 |
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| NPA | Melissa De Genova | 53,251 |
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| COPE | Jean Swanson | 48,865 |
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| NPA | Colleen Hardwick | 47,747 |
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| Green | Michael Wiebe | 45,593 |
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| OneCity | Christine Boyle | 45,455 |
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| NPA | Lisa Dominato | 44,689 |
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| NPA | Rebecca Bligh | 44,053 |
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| NPA | Sarah Kirby-Yung | 43,581 |
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| 2014 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Green | Adriane Carr | 74,077 |
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| NPA | George Affleck | 68,419 |
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| NPA | Elizabeth Ball | 67,195 |
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| NPA | Melissa De Genova | 63,134 |
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| Vision | Heather Deal | 62,698 |
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| Vision | Kerry Jang | 62,595 |
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| Vision | Andrea Reimer | 62,316 |
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| Vision | Raymond Louie | 61,903 |
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| Vision | Tim Stevenson | 57,640 |
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| Vision | Geoff Meggs | 56,831 |
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| NPA | Ian Robertson | 56,319 | ||||||
| NPA | Gregory Baker | 55,721 | ||||||
| NPA | Suzanne Scott | 55,486 | ||||||
| NPA | Ken Low | 54,971 | ||||||
| NPA | Rob McDowell | 53,596 | ||||||
| Vision | Tony Tang | 49,414 | ||||||
| Vision | Niki Sharma | 48,987 | ||||||
| Green | Cleta Brown | 47,564 | ||||||
| Green | Pete Fry | 46,522 | ||||||
| 2011 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver Parks Board | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | Elected | |||||
| Vision | Constance Barnes | 63,952 |
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| Vision | Sarah Blyth | 62,198 |
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| Vision | Aaron Jasper | 58,343 |
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| Vision | Niki Sharma | 58,330 |
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| NPA | Melissa De Genova | 56,501 |
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| NPA | John Coupar | 50,375 |
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| Vision | Trevor Loke | 49,878 |
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| NPA | Casey Crawford | 49,020 | ||||||
| NPA | Gabby Kalaw | 48,600 | ||||||
| NPA | Jason Upton | 46,261 | ||||||
| NPA | Dave Pasin | 46,005 | ||||||
| Green | Stuart Mackinnon | 44,761 | ||||||
| COPE | Brent Granby | 42,769 | ||||||
| COPE | Donalda Greenwell-Baker | 39,033 | ||||||
| IDEA | Jamie Lee Hamilton | 19,495 | ||||||
| Independent | Juliet Victoria Andalis | 12,693 | ||||||
| Independent | Eleanor Hadley | 10,754 | ||||||
| Independent | Andrew Murray | 8,917 | ||||||
| Independent | Tammy Truong | 8,917 | ||||||
| Independent | Peter Raymond Haskell | 5,540 | ||||||
| Independent | Freyja Pri Toor | 5,062 | ||||||
References edit
- ^ a b pmdms. "Meet Our Board and Staff". Honour House. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ a b "Melissa De Genova". NPA Vancouver. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ "Melissa De Genova". Business in Vancouver. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ a b "CityNews". vancouver.citynews.ca. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ "It's Robertson vs. Ladner for mayor". 2012-11-07. Archived from the original on 2012-11-07. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ "Opinion: Ethnic slur on merch disparaging councillor De Genova went way too far". Vancouver Is Awesome. 2022-01-19. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ Lookout (2016-05-21). "Honour House team visits HMCS Vancouver". Pacific Navy News. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ "NPA candidate under fire for use of Chinese name | CityNews Vancouver". vancouver.citynews.ca. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ Cheung, Christopher (28 Sep 2022). "Vancouver Election Controversy: What's in a 'Usual Name'?". The Tyee.
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