Richmond-Queensborough

Richmond-Queensborough

British Columbia electoral district
Location in Richmond
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Aman Singh New Democratic
District created	2015
First contested	2017
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	New Westminster, Richmond

Richmond-Queensborough is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada that was created in the 2015 redistribution from parts of Richmond East and New Westminster. It was first contested in the 2017 election.

Demographics ^[1]

Population, 2014	55,627
Area (km2)	92

History

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Richmond-Queensborough
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Richmond East Riding created from Richmond
35th	1991–1996		Linda Reid	Liberal
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2009
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2017
Richmond-Queensborough
41st	2017–2020		Jas Johal	Liberal
42nd	2020–present		Aman Singh	New Democratic

Election results

Graph of election results in Richmond—Queensborough (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Aman Singh	9,406	47.65	+6.90	$50,855.54
	Liberal	Jas Johal	7,728	39.15	−2.28	$59,892.51
	Green	Earl Einarson	1,496	7.58	−5.14	$2,311.39
	Conservative	Kay Hale	1,108	5.61	+2.11	$6,570.00
Total valid votes			19,738	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			154	0.77
Turnout			19,892	49.56	−6.22
Registered voters			40,138
	New Democratic gain from Liberal		Swing		+4.59
Source: Elections BC [2] [3]

2018 British Columbia electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First Past the Post	8,787	69.93
	Proportional representation	3,779	30.07
Total valid votes		12,566	100.0
Total rejected ballots		97	0.77
Source: Elections BC [4]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jas Johal	8,218	41.43	$67,089
	New Democratic	Aman Singh	8,084	40.75	$30,369
	Green	Michael Wolfe	2,524	12.72	$400
	Conservative	Kay Khilvinder Hale	694	3.50	$1,279
	New Republican	Lawrence Chen	318	1.60	$0
Total valid votes			19,838	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			194	0.97
Turnout			20,032	55.78
Registered voters			35,911
Source: Elections BC [5] [6]

Student vote results

Student Vote Canada is a non-partisan program in Canada that holds mock elections in elementary and high schools alongside general elections (with the same candidates and same electoral system).

2020 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Aman Singh	336	49.19	+5.34
	Green	Earl Einarson	166	24.3	-0.28
	Liberal	Jas Johal	136	19.91	-6.44
	Conservative	Kay Khilvinder Hale	45	6.59	+3.67
Total valid votes			683	100.0	–
Source: Student Vote Canada [7]

2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Aman Singh	496	43.85
	Liberal	Jas Johal	298	26.35
	Green	Michael Wolfe	278	24.58
	Conservative	Kay Khilvinder Hale	33	2.92
	New Republican	Lawrence Chen	26	2.3
Total valid votes			1,131	100.0
Source: Student Vote Canada [8]

External links

• Hi-res map (pdf)

References

1. http://bc-ebc.ca/docs/BC-EBC%5B%5D Population of Proposed Electoral Districts.pdf
2. "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 6, 2021.
3. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved February 7, 2021.
4. "Report of the Chief Electoral Officer - 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform" (PDF). Elections BC . Retrieved October 17, 2020.
5. "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC . Retrieved October 1, 2020.
6. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
7. "Student Vote British Columbia 2020". Student Vote British Columbia 2020. Retrieved October 31, 2020.
8. "Student Vote BC 2017". Student Vote Canada. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved October 4, 2020.