Vancouver-Langara

Vancouver-Langara
British Columbia electoral district
	Location in Vancouver
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Michael Lee ; United
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First contested	1991
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Population (2015)	60,041
Area (km²)	15
Pop. density (per km²)	4,002.7
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Vancouver

Last updated June 22, 2024

Vancouver-Langara 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-Langara
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Vancouver South
35th	1991–1996		Val Anderson	Liberal
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2009		Carole Taylor
39th	2009–2013		Moira Stilwell
40th	2013–2017		Moira Stilwell
41st	2017–2020		Michael Lee
42nd	2020–2023
42nd	2023–present			United

1999 redistribution

Changes to the Vancouver-Langara electoral district in 1999 include:

Addition of the area bounded by 33rd and 41st Avenues, and Main and Granville Streets
Removal of the area bounded by Granville Street, 41st Avenue, 57th Avenue, and the Arbutus rail line

Member of the Legislative Assembly

This riding is currently held by MLA Michael Lee, who was elected in the 2017 provincial general election. He represents BC United, previously called the BC Liberal Party.

From 2009-2017, the riding was held by Moira Stilwell, who represented the BC Liberal Party as well. Stilwell was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development in June 2009. Previously, the MLA was Carole Taylor, former chair of the CBC and former Vancouver City Councillor. She was first elected in 2005 and appointed the Minister of Finance. She represented the BC Liberal Party. She resigned on December 18, 2008.

Election results

Graph of the election results in Vancouver-Langara (minor parties are combined into "Others")

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Michael Lee	9,888	48.51	+1.05	$58,300.21
	New Democratic	Tesicca Chi-Ying Truong	8,431	41.36	+3.30	$42,051.83
	Green	Stephanie Hendy	1,840	9.03	−4.64	$2,420.05
	Libertarian	Paul Matthews	224	1.10	–	$0.00
Total valid votes			20,383	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			180	0.88	+0.23
Turnout			20,563	49.45	−6.99
Registered voters			41,581
	Liberal hold		Swing		−1.13
Source: Elections BC ^[1]^[2]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Michael Lee	10,047	47.46	−5.14	$57,579
	New Democratic	James Wang	8,058	38.06	−0.22	$76,064
	Green	Janet Rhoda Fraser	2,894	13.67	+8.25	$6,721
	Your Political Party	Surinder Singh Trehan	172	0.81	–	$6,699
Total valid votes			21,171	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			138	0.65	−0.23
Turnout			21,309	56.44	+5.92
Registered voters			37,754
Source: Elections BC ^[3]^[4]

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Moira Stilwell	10,234	52.60
	New Democratic	George Chow	7,447	38.28
	Green	Regan-Heng Zhang	1,055	5.42
	Conservative	Gurjinder Bains	674	3.46
	Platinum	Espavo Sozo	45	0.23
Total valid votes			19,455	100.00
Total rejected ballots			172	0.88
Turnout			19,627	50.52
Source: Elections BC ^[5]

v t e 2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Moira Stilwell	10,615	58.87	$89,931
	New Democratic	Helesia Luke	6,340	35.16	$19,002
	Green	J-M Toriel	1,075	5.97	$948
Total valid votes			18,030	100
Total rejected ballots			167	0.92
Turnout			18,197	47.71
Source: Elections BC ^[6]

v t e 2005 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Carole Taylor	11,181	56.55	10.36	$78,828
	New Democratic	Anita Romaniuk	6,456	32.65	15.65	$9,044
	Green	Doug Warkentin	1,584	8.01	3.38	$815
	Marijuana	Mark Gueffroy	214	1.08	2.73	$100
	Independent	Christopher De Wilde	185	0.94	N/A	$100
	Work Less	Charlie Latimer	152	0.77	New	$100
Total valid votes			19,772	100.00
Total rejected ballots			183	0.93
Turnout			19,955	53.51
	Liberal hold		Swing		-13.01

v t e 2001 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val Anderson	11,800	66.90	6.71	$29,498
	New Democratic	Peter G. Prontzos	2,999	17.00	13.07	$2,596
	Green	Doug Warkentin	2,009	11.39	9.55	$2,347
	Marijuana	Anthony Campbell	673	3.82	New	$394
	Independent	Joe Young	337	0.60	N/A	$362
	People's Front	Michael Hill	51	0.29	New	$118
Total valid votes			17,637	100.00
Total rejected ballots			203	1.15
Turnout			17,840	67.38
	Liberal hold		Swing		+9.89

v t e 1996 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val Anderson	11,038	60.20	23.25	$25,864
	New Democratic	Ragini Rankin	5,515	30.08	4.49	$29,984
	Progressive Democrat	Philip Read	839	27.42	New	$488
	Reform	Christie Jung	519	2.83	New	$7,749
	Green	Michael Airton	337	1.84	1.15	$100
	Natural Law	Jerry Zen-Jih Chang	75	0.38	New	$118
Total valid votes			18,337	100.00
Total rejected ballots			177	0.96
Turnout			18,514	68.66
	Liberal hold		Swing		+13.87

v t e 1991 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val Anderson	7,241	36.95	$13,737
	New Democratic	Peter M. Kendall	6,774	34.57	$25,805
	Social Credit	Russell G. Fraser	5,374	27.42	$50,387
	Green	Kamala J. Todd	134	0.88	$32
	Conservative	Malcolm A. Weatherston	75	0.38
Total valid votes			19,598	100.00
Total rejected ballots			373	1.87
Turnout			19,971	72.64

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References

↑ "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
↑ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved March 19, 2021.
↑ "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC . Retrieved December 27, 2020.
↑ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
↑ "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
↑ "Statement of Votes - 39th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved April 29, 2024.

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[1] "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 31, 2021.

[2] "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved March 19, 2021.

[3] "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC . Retrieved December 27, 2020.

[4] "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.

[5] "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

[6] "Statement of Votes - 39th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved April 29, 2024.

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v t e British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2017–2024)
North/Central	Cariboo-Chilcotin Cariboo North Nechako Lakes North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mackenzie Prince George-Valemount Skeena Stikine
Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops-North Thompson Kamloops-South Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Kelowna West Kootenay East Kootenay West Fraser-Nicola Nelson-Creston Penticton Shuswap Vernon-Monashee
Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Mission Abbotsford South Abbotsford West Chilliwack Chilliwack-Kent Delta North Delta South Langley Langley East Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond North Centre Richmond-Queensborough Richmond South Centre Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Fleetwood Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Guildford Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Surrey South Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock
Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Deer Lake Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby-Lougheed Burnaby North Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Coquitlam Powell River-Sunshine Coast Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-False Creek Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena Vancouver-West End West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
Vancouver Island	Courtenay-Comox Cowichan Valley Esquimalt-Metchosin Langford-Juan de Fuca Mid Island-Pacific Rim Nanaimo Nanaimo-North Cowichan North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Swan Lake
See also	2015 British Columbia electoral redistribution List of British Columbia general elections 2017 general election 2020 general election Defunct districts