Vancouver-Hastings

Vancouver-Hastings

British Columbia electoral district
Location in Vancouver
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Niki Sharma New Democratic
First contested	1991
Last contested	2024
Demographics
Population (2001)	56,683
Area (km²)	12.3
Pop. density (per km²)	4,608.4
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Vancouver

Vancouver-Hastings is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

History

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

Vancouver-Hastings
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
35th	1991–1996		Joy MacPhail	New Democratic
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2009		Shane Simpson
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–2020
42nd	2020–2024		Niki Sharma
43rd	2024–present

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Niki Sharma. She was first elected in 2020. She represents the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Election results

Graph of provincial election results in Vancouver-Hastings (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2024 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Niki Sharma	14,237	64.1%
	Conservative	Jacob Burdge	5,391	24.3%
	Green	Bridget Burns	2,409	10.9%
	Independent	Zsolt Kiss	157	0.7%
Total valid votes			22,194	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC [1]

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Niki Sharma	13,362	60.56	+0.58	$23,640.61
	Green	Bridget Burns	4,312	19.54	+1.87	$3,816.71
	Liberal	Alex Read	3,885	17.61	−3.88	$4,639.54
	Libertarian	Gölök Z Buday	321	1.45	–	$550.68
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	184	0.83	−0.03	$123.40
Total valid votes			22,064	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			192	0.86	+0.08
Turnout			22,256	51.37	−8.22
Registered voters			43,322
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−0.65
Source: Elections BC [2] [3]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Shane Simpson	14,382	59.98	+0.41	$38,308
	Liberal	Jane Spitz	5,152	21.49	-6.15	$24,876
	Green	David H.T. Wong	4,238	17.67	+6.56	$3,621
	Communist	Kimball Mark Cariou	206	0.86	–	$0
Total valid votes			23,978	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			188	0.78	-0.17
Turnout			24,166	59.59	+6.38
Registered voters			40,555
Source: Elections BC [4] [5]

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Shane Simpson	12,782	59.51
	Liberal	Fatima Siddiqui	5,936	27.64
	Green	Brennan Wauters	2,386	11.11
	Social Credit	Carrol B. Woolsey	374	1.74
Total valid votes			21,478	100.00
Total rejected ballots			206	0.95
Turnout			21684	53.21
Source: Elections BC [6]

v t e 2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Shane Simpson	10,857	55.45	$66,781
	Liberal	Haida Lane	6,323	32.35	$42,119
	Green	Ryan Daniel Conroy	2,012	10.29	$4,137
	Work Less	Chris Telford	198	1.01	$250
	Sex	Dietrich Pajonk	99	0.51	$268
	People's Front	Donna Petersen	76	0.38	$250
Total valid votes			19,565	100
Total rejected ballots			163	0.83
Turnout			19,728	50.58
Eligible voters			39,006

B.C. General Election 2005: Vancouver-Hastings

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Shane Simpson	11,726	54.61%		$59,320
	Liberal	Laura McDiarmid	6,910	32.18%	–	$64,886
	Green	Ian Gregson	1,928	8.98%	–	$1,476
	Social Credit	Carrol Barbara Woolsey	274	1.28%	–	$1,900
	Work Less	Denise Brennan	247	1.15%	–	$565
	Marijuana	Stephen Payne	188	0.88%		$100
	Independent	Will Offley	130	0.61%		$6,503
	Platinum	Catherine Millard Saadi	68	0.32%	–	$100
Total Valid Votes			21,471	100%
Total Rejected Ballots			205	0.95%
Turnout			21,676	55.43%

v t e 2001 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Joy MacPhail	8,009	41.64	$44,787
	Liberal	Daniel Lee	7,600	39.51	$44,695
	Green	Ian Gregson	2,874	14.94	$1,764
	Marijuana	Davin Ouimet	409	2.13	$394
	Social Credit	Carrol Barbara Woolsey	222	1.15	$1,584
	People's Front	Charles Boylan	119	0.63	$97
Total valid votes			19,233
Total rejected ballots			134	0.70
Turnout			19,367	68.11

B.C. General Election 1996: Vancouver-Hastings

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Joy MacPhail	9,894	54.01%		$48,308
	Liberal	Raymond Leung	6,345	34.64%	–	$44,576
	Progressive Democrat	Joe Cafariello	824	4.50%	–	$706
	Reform	Nazario Matino	568	3.10%	–	$2,370
	Green	Irene L. Schmidt	486	2.65%	–	$154
	Social Credit	Carrol Barbara Woolsey	137	0.75%	–	$2,470
	Natural Law	Christian Prekratic	64	0.35%		$134
Total valid votes			18,318	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			209	1.13%
Turnout			18,527	67.96%

B.C. General Election 1991: Vancouver-Hastings

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Joy MacPhail	10,087	55.93%		$50,916
	Liberal	Nancy Lau	5,092	28.23%	–	$8,833
	Social Credit	Don L. Gedlaman	2,589	14.35%	–	$16,148
	Green	Kim Anda Jarzebiak	268	1.49%	–	$89
Total valid votes			18,036	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			644	3.45%
Turnout			18,680	70.84%

References

1. https://globalnews.ca/news/10779115/bc-election-2024-results-vancouver-hastings/
2. "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
3. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
4. "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC . Retrieved October 24, 2020.
5. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
6. "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

External links

• BC Stats
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia