Susie Chant

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Susie Chant
MLA
Susie Chant, BC NDP Candidate for North Vancouver-Seymour.png
Parliamentary Secretary for Seniors’ Services and Long-Term Care of British Columbia
Assumed office
November 18, 2024

Chant has worked as a Registered Nurse and team leader in community care with Vancouver Coastal Health prior to being elected. She famously kept her job as a nurse for the first year she was in office, to assist in the COVID-19 pandemic and administer vaccines [5] Chant has also served as a member of the Royal Canadian Navy Reserves for over 40 years, she also kept her position within the reserves for a portion of her time in office until her retirement in 2022. [6]

She and her husband are the parents of two adult daughters and were foster parents for 12 years. They provided a safe home for teenagers in crisis and supported them to get back to their families.

Chant's nursing career has also taken her overseas, teaching nursing students in Saipan and working in children's psychiatry in Hawaii.

She is an active member of Girl Guides of Canada and a former leader. She has also been a Sun Run clinic leader for 25 years, helping people in her community to be more active.

Chant's husband, Rick, runs a home-based business, repairing and maintaining augmentative technology for people with significant disabilities.

Electoral record

2024 British Columbia general election : North Vancouver-Seymour
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Susie Chant 15,64352.62+5.2
Conservative Sam Chandola10,67635.91
Independent Mitchell Baker1,7395.85
Green Subhadarshi Tripathy1,6695.61-10.6
Total valid votes
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
New Democratic hold Swing –15.3
Source: Elections BC [7]
2020 British Columbia general election : North Vancouver-Seymour
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic Susie Chant 12,89146.84+12.37$26,969.51
Liberal Jane Thornthwaite 9,82735.70–10.66$41,813.24
Green Harrison Johnston4,51416.40–1.90$5,098.28
Libertarian Clayton Welwood2911.06+0.19$46.80
Total valid votes27,52399.32
Total rejected ballots1890.68+0.21
Turnout27,71265.49–4.85
Registered voters42,316
New Democratic gain from Liberal Swing +11.52
Source: Elections BC [8] [9]

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