June 9, 2025, Vancouver, British Columbia
Former ABC campaign manager Kareem Allam to run for mayor of Vancouver in 2026
Excerpt from Daily Hive. Read the full article here:
Kareem Allam is the first candidate to announce his bid for mayor of Vancouver in the October 2026 civic election.
“I’ve effectively made the decision to run. And so, I’m in the race,” Allam told Daily Hive Urbanized in an interview on Monday afternoon.
A seasoned political strategist, Allam is known for leading the successful campaigns of Kevin Falcon’s BC Liberals (now BC United) leadership race and Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver party’s landslide victory in the October 2022 civic election. After ABC’s win, he served as the Chief of Staff for Sim’s Mayor’s Office for about four months, until February 2023.
He also ran Erin O’Toole’s federal Conservative leadership campaign, and currently serves as a consultant for government, First Nations, and other entities.
