Two people who ran for public office on the North Shore have been disqualified from running again in 2026 for failing to file campaign finance disclosure statements.
Elections B.C., which oversees enforcement of the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act, published a list of 48 candidates, Wednesday, who will not be allowed to have their names added to the next ballot because they had not filed the mandatory statements detailing their campaign fundraising and expenditures by the Feb. 13 deadline.
Among them are Tom Wardell, who filed nomination papers to run for District of West Vancouver council but later withdrew before the official campaign start, and Michael Petersen, who placed last in the race for a District of North Vancouver seat on the North Vancouver school board with 1,456 votes.
“These candidates are disqualified from being nominated for, elected to or holding a local authority office in B.C. until after the next general local elections, scheduled for October 17, 2026,” the notice from Elections B.C. States.
See our campaign finance disclosure coverage of the City of North Vancouver, District of North Vancouver and District of West Vancouver.
