Maple Ridge East

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Maple Ridge East
Flag of British Columbia.svg British Columbia electoral district
2023 294 Maple Ridge East.svg
Location in the Lower Mainland
Provincial electoral district
Legislature Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA
 
 
 
Lawrence Mok
Conservative
District created2001
First contested 2001
Last contested 2024

Maple Ridge East is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

Contents

A riding covering a similar area, Maple Ridge-Mission, [1] was first created in 2001 and then had its boundaries adjusted in 2008. The riding adopted its current name and had minor boundary changes from the 2024 election, which implemented the results of the 2021 redistribution. [2]

Geography

Redistribution

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows and Mission-Kent were created from Dewdney during the 1989 redistribution. In 2000, Mission-Kent and Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows were used to create Maple Ridge-Mission. Finally in the 2008 redistribution, just over half of the original riding remain and to it was added a fraction of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows. [1]

History

Its MLA was Randy Hawes under the former boundary system, who is a former mayor of the District of Mission. He was first elected in 2001, representing the British Columbia Liberal Party. He successfully ran again in the Abbotsford-Mission riding for the 2009 election.

Population, 200156,951
Population Change, 1996–20016.9%
Area (km2)3,909.22
Pop. Density (people per km2)14.6

Member of the Legislative Assembly

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
Maple Ridge-Mission
37th 2001–2005 Randy Hawes Liberal
38th 2005–2009
39th 2009–2013 Marc Dalton
40th 2013–2017
41st 2017–2020 Bob D'Eith New Democratic
42nd 2020–2024
Maple Ridge East
43rd 2024- Lawrence Mok Conservative

Electoral history

2024 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
Conservative Lawrence Mok 11,79647.50+47.50
New Democratic Bob D'Eith 11,46946.18-8.87
Green Kylee Williams1,5706.32-4.78
Total valid votes24,835
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC
2020 British Columbia general election : Maple Ridge-Mission
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Bob D'Eith 14,72155.15+13.21$44,290.44
Liberal Chelsa Meadus9,00933.75−6.92$50,223.21
Green Matt Trenholm2,96211.10−2.12$0.00
Total valid votes26,692100.00
Total rejected ballots  
Turnout  
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC [3] [4]
2017 British Columbia general election : Maple Ridge-Mission
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Bob D'Eith 10,98941.94+2.13$68,144
Liberal Marc Dalton 10,66440.70−5.89$59,214
Green Peter Pak Chiu Tam3,46413.22+5.01$9,786
Conservative Trevor Hamilton9353.57−1.80
Libertarian Jeff Monds1480.57
Total valid votes26,200100.00
Total rejected ballots1280.49
Turnout26,32861.69
Registered Voters42,678
Source: Elections BC [5]
2013 British Columbia general election : Maple Ridge-Mission
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Marc Dalton 10,32746.59+0.87
New Democratic Mike Bocking8,82039.81–5.58
Green Alex Pope1,8188.21+1.01
Conservative Chad Thompson1,1905.37
Total valid votes22,155100.00
Total rejected ballots1520.68
Turnout22,30757.91
Source: Elections BC [6]
B.C. General Election 2009 Maple Ridge-Mission
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Marc Dalton 8,80245.72%
  NDP Mike Bocking8,73845.39%
Green Michael Gildersleeve1,3877.20%
Reform Ian Vaughan3251.69%
Total19,252100.00%
2005 British Columbia general election : Maple Ridge-Mission
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Randy Hawes 12,09544.30
New Democratic Jenny Stevens11,89643.57
Green William Stanley Walsh2,6339.64
Marijuana Carol Gwilt3141.15
Independent Chum Richardson3121.14
Platinum Keith Smith530.19
Total26,080 100.00
2001 British Columbia general election : Maple Ridge-Mission
PartyCandidateVotes%Expenditures
Liberal Randy Hawes 12,92056.67$36,054
New Democratic Rose Bennett4,71020.66$19,157
Green Dawn Paley2,91012.76$296
Unity David Ritchie1,0374.55$1,487
Marijuana Denise Briere-Smart9083.98$394
Independent Dale Randall2521.11$4,144
Independent Chum Richardson810.49$103
Total valid votes22,800 100.00
Total rejected ballots127 0.56
Turnout22,927 70.87

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References

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