Green Party councillor Adriane Carr won a second term to Vancouver city council, but her team failed to make a breakthrough by electing more councillors.

Green Party candidates Pete Fry, a graphic designer, and Cleta Brown, a lawyer, finished well back of earning one of the 10 spots on city council.

In the Green Party’s first win ever in Vancouver in 2011, Carr just squeaked in, winning the 10th and final council seat by 91 votes.

This time around, however, she topped the polls ahead of NPA incumbent George Affleck in second place.

Carr said Saturday she was excited about her landslide win, but was disappointed her runningmates did not win a seat that would have allowed them to form a “balance of power” on council. She said, however, she would continue to try to “forge relationships and build support wherever she can” on council.

The Greens tried to differentiate the party as a viable alternative to Vision and NPA, both viewed as developer friendly.

Their campaign slogan was: “Not right. Not left. Out for a better Vancouver.”

It’s difficult to say if it was successful for Carr (who accepted no money from developers and ran a low-budget campaign), but she believed she had capitalized on voter dissatisfaction with the ferocious pace of development in the city and a sentiment among some residents they were not being listened to by Vision.

The Greens had noted that Vancouver has not had an official community plan since 1929 and spot zoning has been a poor way to plan. Driven by developers, it has resulted in Vancouver having more high rises per capita than in other city in the world, Carr and her team said.

“I think people are unhappy. That’s why you get more people out to vote,” said Carr. “I think they want to see public interest at their councillor’s top of mind.”

She has noted that the controversy over the Vision-led Vancouver Park Board’s decision to try to negotiate new agreements with community centres has also contributed to the idea that Vision is not listening to the public. Some community centres ended up taking the park board to court.

On Park Board, two Greens were elected: Stuart MacKinnon and Michael Wiebe.

ghoekstra@vancouversun.com