The Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) is a municipal political party in the Canadian city of Vancouver, British Columbia. It follows generally social democratic principles.
In 2002 Vancouverites elected their first COPE mayor, Larry Campbell along with a majority (eight out of ten) of the City council seats. However, by late-2004, there were growing signs of disunity among the COPE mayor and councillors. Campbell formed an independent caucus along with several of his COPE colleagues (although they all remained as members of the party). The other COPE councillors remained in the original COPE caucus.
COPE was founded with the assistance of the city's Labour Council in 1968 to compete with the conservative Non-Partisan Association which dominated municipal politics. Key figures were Frank Kennedy of the labour council and Harry Rankin, a socialist city councillor as well as members of the BC New Democratic Party.
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