Municipal opposition party Vision Vancouver members will vote for their mayoral candidate on Sunday to decide who will run against newly elected Non-Partisan Association candidate Peter Ladner.

Vision party members will choose between Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Allan De Genova, City Councillor Raymond Louie, and New Democrat MLA Gregor Robertson.

Allan De Genova:

Allan De Genova, 52, is an independent Vancouver Park Board Commissioner and Vision Vancouver party member.

Born and raised in Vancouver, he attended BCIT and Vancouver Community College before he worked in business sales for 15 years.

He joined the NPA in 1990 and became a Park Board Commissioner in 1993, a position he has held for the past 15 years.

As a member of the NPA, he topped the polls in the last municipal election in 2005.

De Genova was suspended from the NPA party after a disagreement with Mayor Sam Sullivan in 2006, and sat as an independent before he joined Vision Vancouver this year.

Claiming to be neither left- nor right-leaning, De Genova says he aims to build consensus within the party to improve life for citizens in Vancouver.

"I'm about solutions, not goals and promises, we've heard that for way too long," De Genova said.

"I'm not caught up in the east versus west and left and right of politics. I'm a centrist person who brings things together. That's what I do."

De Genova is praised for community revitalization projects in Vancouver's Victory Square, Nat Bailey Stadium, Sunset Community Centre, and Hastings Park.

De Genova will focus on improving the environment, homelessness and life for seniors, he says. He advocates better public safety, wants to put more police on the street and aims to cut police response times in half.

He is married with three children.

Raymond Louie:

Raymond Louie is a two-term Vancouver city councillor who was born and raised in east Vancouver.

He worked in various jobs, including his family's bakery business on Commercial Drive, before becoming an activist for workers' rights. He became a national representative for a union before he was elected to city council in 2002.

Re-elected in 2005, Louie has spent his time on council working to improve the Fraser Lands community and fighting for council support for a new seniors centre in south Vancouver.

He has worked to increase security on SkyTrain and create more affordable housing units downtown and in Southeast False Creek, and served on TransLink and the Greater Vancouver Regional District boards.

As mayor, Louie says he would increase affordable housing, improve safety on city streets, improve public transit, and revitalize the neighbourhoods of Chinatown, Gastown and the Downtown Eastside.

Louie says he would lower municipal taxes for homeowners, add a pedestrian and cyclist crossing on the new Canada Line bridge to Richmond, and supports a new bike lane on the Burrard Street Bridge.

Former leader of the B.C. New Democratic Party Joy MacPhail and City Councillor George Chow have thrown their support behind Louie.

He is married with three children.

Gregor Robertson:

Gregor Robertson was born and raised in Vancouver, and subsequently attended university and worked in organic farming for several years.

As an entrepreneur, he started several businesses including juice company Happy Planet, and became committed to promoting sustainability, including protecting aspects of the farming, forestry and fishing industries.

Robertson was elected as New Democrat MLA for Vancouver-Fairview in 2005 and has since worked to protect affordable rental housing in Vancouver and as an advocate for the environment and small businesses in various capacities.

An avid cyclist, Robertson is an environmental and climate change activist who aims to increase affordable housing in the city, improve the environment through reducing gridlock and pollution, and increase public safety.

Widely considered the front-runner among Vision Vancouver candidates, Robertson has been publicly endorsed by former Non-Partisan Association party City Councillor Jonathan Baker, NPA school trustee Eleanor Gregory, and Vision Vancouver City Councillor Heather Deal.

He is married and has four children.