She was an independent candidate for the publicly elected Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation in the city's 2008 municipal election, after being controversially blocked from running on the Non-Partisan Association ticket.
The NPA's electoral platform suggested that an NPA government would focus on reducing crime, improving housing affordability, leveraging the 2010 Winter Olympics, protecting the environment, advancing the city's arts and culture sector, and working collaboratively with senior levels of government, community groups, and the private sector.
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There are, and have also been in the past, Non-Partisan Association political parties in the nearby municipalities of Burnaby, Richmond and Surrey.
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The Non-Partisan Association (NPA) is a civic-level electoral organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Peter Ladner was the NPA's nominee for mayor in the 2008 Vancouver civic election on November 15, 2008, but lost to Gregor Robertson, the candidate for Vision Vancouver.
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NPA candidates for the School Board were Ken Denike (incumbent) (re-elected with 46,777 votes), Eileen Le Gallais (37,598 votes), Carol Gibson (incumbent vice-chair) (re-elected with 46,048 votes), Clarence Hansen (incumbent) (40,953 votes), Heather Holden (Park Board incumbent) (45,921 votes), Margit Nance (35,014 votes), Lakhbir Singh (33,659 votes), and Sophia Woo (43,538 votes).
In the election for Vancouver City Council held in November 2005, four Vision Vancouver candidates (Raymond Louie, Tim Stevenson, Heather Deal and George Chow) were elected, but the party's mayoral candidate, Jim Green, was defeated by the Non-Partisan Association's Sam Sullivan.
League of Nations Non-Partisan Association—Honorary Vice-President.