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Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia |
District created | 2023 |
First contested | Next election |
Langford-Highlands is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Created under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, the riding will first be contested in the 2024 British Columbia general election. [1] It was mostly created out of Langford-Juan de Fuca plus a small part of Esquimalt-Metchosin.
The district is located in Greater Victoria's Western Communities and is coterminal with the municipal boundaries of the City of Langford and District of Highlands.
2020 provincial election redistributed results [2] | |||
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Party | % | ||
New Democratic | 67.0 | ||
Liberal | 16.5 | ||
Green | 16.0 |
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