Non-Partisan Association
The Non-Partisan Association (NPA, dt. Non-party association ) is a local political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver . It was founded in 1937 and sees itself as a center-right movement. The NPA is particularly well established among entrepreneurs. Its name is intended to make it clear that party politics is unsuitable for solving problems at the local level. Its main competitors are the center-left Coalition of Progressive Electors and the middle-of-the-range Vision Vancouver .
To date, eleven Vancouver mayors have belonged to the NPA:
- Jonathan Webster Cornett (1941-1946)
- Gerry McGeer (1947)
- Charles E. Jones (1947-1948)
- George Clark Miller (1948)
- Charles Edwin Thompson (1949-1950)
- Frederick Hume (1951-1958)
- William Rathie (1963-1966)
- Thomas J. Campbell (1967–1972, NPA since 1970, previously independent)
- Gordon Campbell (1986-1993)
- Philip Owen (1993-2002)
- Sam Sullivan (2005-2008)