At a general meeting in September 2014, an overwhelming majority of COPE membership endorsed Meena Wong as the 2014 mayoral candidate. The community organizer and activist stated that the focuses of her campaign would be giving citizens a voice and keeping housing affordable. She also proposed a tax on vacant homes in Vancouver. In addition to Wong, the membership endorsed a slate of 16 candidates. In accordance with the party's equity policy there was a First Nations (Indigenous) candidate for each board and the majority of candidates are female. The party's 2014 election platform advocated for a new Vancouver Housing Authority, for Vancouver to become a sanctuary city, to implement a minimum wage raise to $15/hr, and to hold a referendum for electoral reform to consider switching from a first-past-the-post voting system to a proportional representation system. In October 2018, COPE ran seven candidates for the 2018 Vancouver municipal election: Jean Swanson, Derrick O'Keefe, and Anne Roberts for City Council; Gwen Giesbrecht and John Irwin for Park Board; and Diana Day and Barb Parrott for School Board. The party had four of its candidates elected and achieved representation on each of the city's boards. The 2018 COPE campaign called for a mansion tax to end homelessness, a moratorium on renovictions, and a four-year rent freeze.