V is for... Vision. Vancouver. Victory.

And a pretty resounding victory too. Gregor Robertson is new mayor of Vancouver notching up almost 40% more votes than NPA mayoral hopeful Peter Ladner. Vision Vancouver's slate of candidates were all elected bar Kashmir Dhaliwal. Suzanne Anton was the only NPA candidate for council to get elected.

Vision's strategy of uniting the left by not running candidates against COPE paid off. COPE's two candidates for council, David Cadman and Ellen Woodsworth were elected in.

Voter turn-out was awful at only 26%. You might think that the high drama of the US election would galvanise people into voting. But it seems to have had the opposite effect, creating election fatigue. Coming so soon after the dull-as-dish-water Canadian federal election doesn't help.

Still, Vision Vancouver are celebrating. Vision's party machine did a good job of getting the vote out through emails, candidates letters, and those irritating automated phone calls. They also struck the right keynote after three years of ineffectual leadership: change.

Here's how the new council looks:

Gregor Robertson - Mayor of Vancouver

Raymond Louie of Vision Vancouver
Heather Deal of Vision Vancouver
George Chow of Vision Vancouver
Kerry Jang of Vision Vancouver
Andrea Reimer of Vision Vancouver
Tim Stevenson of Vision Vancouver
David Cadman of COPE
Suzanne Anton of the NPA
Geoff Meggs of Vision Vancouver
Ellen Woodsworth of COPE