Draft:Melissa De Genova

Melissa De Genova
Melissa De Genova
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

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Declined by Qcne 7 months ago. Last edited by RedBlueGreen93 33 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Comment: Sorry, city councillors do not merit an article under WP:NPOLITICIAN. Qcne (talk) 10:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

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
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Green	Adriane Carr	69,739	Y
	Green	Pete Fry	61,806	Y
	NPA	Melissa De Genova	53,251	Y
	COPE	Jean Swanson	48,865	Y
	NPA	Colleen Hardwick	47,747	Y
	Green	Michael Wiebe	45,593	Y
	OneCity	Christine Boyle	45,455	Y
	NPA	Lisa Dominato	44,689	Y
	NPA	Rebecca Bligh	44,053	Y
	NPA	Sarah Kirby-Yung	43,581	Y

2014 Vancouver municipal election: Vancouver City Council
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Green	Adriane Carr	74,077	Y
	NPA	George Affleck	68,419	Y
	NPA	Elizabeth Ball	67,195	Y
	NPA	Melissa De Genova	63,134	Y
	Vision	Heather Deal	62,698	Y
	Vision	Kerry Jang	62,595	Y
	Vision	Andrea Reimer	62,316	Y
	Vision	Raymond Louie	61,903	Y
	Vision	Tim Stevenson	57,640	Y
	Vision	Geoff Meggs	56,831	Y
	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
Party	Candidate	Votes	Elected
	Vision	Constance Barnes	63,952	Y
	Vision	Sarah Blyth	62,198	Y
	Vision	Aaron Jasper	58,343	Y
	Vision	Niki Sharma	58,330	Y
	NPA	Melissa De Genova	56,501	Y
	NPA	John Coupar	50,375	Y
	Vision	Trevor Loke	49,878	Y
	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.

Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:21st-century Canadian politicians Category:People of Italian descent Category:Married to a cop Category:Politicians

[:0-1] s. "Meet Our Board and Staff". Honour House. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

[:1-2] "Melissa De Genova". NPA Vancouver. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

[3] "Melissa De Genova". Business in Vancouver. 5 December 2016. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

[:2-4] "CityNews". vancouver.citynews.ca. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

[5] "It's Robertson vs. Ladner for mayor". 2012-11-07. Archived from the original on 2012-11-07. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

[6] "Opinion: Ethnic slur on merch disparaging councillor De Genova went way too far". Vancouver Is Awesome. 2022-01-19. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

[7] Lookout (2016-05-21). "Honour House team visits HMCS Vancouver". Pacific Navy News. Retrieved 2023-09-28.

[8] "NPA candidate under fire for use of Chinese name | CityNews Vancouver". vancouver.citynews.ca. Retrieved 2024-02-28.

[9] Cheung, Christopher (28 Sep 2022). "Vancouver Election Controversy: What's in a 'Usual Name'?". The Tyee.

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