Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
Vancouver-Strathcona is a provincialelectoral district for theLegislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada.
The district ofVancouver-Mount Pleasant was created covering much of the same territory in 1991. The riding adopted its current name and had modest boundary adjustments from the2024 election , which implemented the results of the2021 redistribution .[ 1]
Vancouver-Strathcona is widely considered one of the safestNDP seats in all of British Columbia, with the NDP routinely winning by over 40 points. Even during the2001 landslide electoral victory for theBC Liberals , Vancouver-Mount Pleasant was one of only two electoral districts to return an NDPMLA . In that election, despite a massive province-wide turn away from the party the NDP won the seat by over 10 points, a much wider margin thanVancouver-Hastings , the other seat to return a New Democrat.
This riding is located in the east end ofVancouver , running from the eastern parts of the Downtown eastward toCommercial Drive (the western parts of the downtown make up the neighbouring riding ofVancouver-False Creek ). The riding consists of the part of its namesake neighbourhood ofMount Pleasant east ofMain Street , all ofStrathcona ,Downtown Eastside andGastown , as well as part ofChinatown , the part ofGrandview-Woodland west of Commercial Drive and the part ofKensington-Cedar Cottage north ofKingsway .
Members of the Legislative Assembly [ edit ] ItsMLA isJoan Phillip , who was elected in a2023 by-election to replaceMelanie Mark ; Mark resigned her seat in April 2023.[ 2]
Graph of the election results in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant (minor parties are combined into "Others")
June 24, 2023 :Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Melanie Mark Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures New Democratic Joan Phillip 5,459 67.79 +0.84 $52,059.61 BC United Jackie Lee 1,101 13.67 +0.69 $57,476.94 Green Wendy Hayko 931 11.56 –8.51 $7,328.43 Conservative Karin Litzcke 395 4.91 New $9,705.81 Communist Kimball Cariou 167 2.07 New $0.00 Total valid votes/expenses limit 8,053 100.00 — $69,086.25 Total rejected ballots 21 0.26 –0.71 Turnout 8,074 17.84 –30.17 Registered voters 45,533 New Democratic hold Swing +0.08 Source:Elections BC [ 3] [ 4]
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Jenny Kwan Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures New Democratic Melanie Mark 5,627 60.14 −5.69 $71,603 Green Pete Fry 2,533 27.07 +15.16 $29,065 Liberal Gavin Dew 1,056 11.29 −7.46 $66,547 Libertarian Bonnie Boya Hu 79 0.84 – $250 Your Political Party Jeremy Gustafson 61 0.65 – $454 Total valid votes 9,356 99.53 – Total rejected ballots 44 0.47 −0.51 Turnout 9,400 23.17 −26.60 Registered voters 40,561 New Democratic hold Swing −10.42
2009 British Columbia general election Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures New Democratic Jenny Kwan 11,232 63.95 -0.29 $79,796 Liberal Sherry Darlene Wiebe 3,654 20.80 -0.48 $41,506 Green John T. Boychuck 2,507 14.27 +4.04 $7,013 Communist Peter Marcus 171 0.97 +0.49 $1,565 Total valid votes 17,564 98.77 Total rejected ballots 218 1.23 -0.30 Turnout 17,782 46.47 -3.46 Registered voters 38,267 New Democratic hold Swing +0.09
2005 British Columbia general election Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures New Democratic Jenny Kwan 12,974 64.24 +19.76 $98,030 Liberal Juliet Andalis 4,298 21.28 -11.89 $34,819 Green Raven Bowen 2,066 10.23 -5.99 $1,882 Marijuana Christopher Patrick Bennett 308 1.53 -1.51 $100 Independent Mike Hansen 205 1.02 $406 Work Less Niki Westman 187 0.93 $100 Communist Peter Marcus 98 0.49 -0.40 $2,928 Democratic Reform Imtiaz Popat 43 0.21 $100 Platinum Kirk Anton Moses 17 0.08 $130 Total valid votes 20,196 98.48 Total rejected ballots 312 1.52 +0.25 Turnout 20,508 49.93 -9.43 Registered voters 41,071 New Democratic hold Swing +15.83
Student vote results [ edit ] Student Vote Canada is a non-partisan program that holdsmock elections in Canadian elementary and secondary schools alongside general elections, with the same candidates and electoral system.
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