 British Columbia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Location in Vancouver | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| First contested | 1991 | ||
| Last contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2015) | 60,041 | ||
| Area (km²) | 15 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 4,002.7 | ||
| Census division(s) | Metro Vancouver | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Vancouver | ||
Vancouver-Langara is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.
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 | 2005–2008 | Carole Taylor | ||
| 39th | 2009–2013 | Moira Stilwell | ||
| 40th | 2013–2017 | |||
| 41st | 2017–2020 | Michael Lee | ||
| 42nd | 2020–2023 | |||
| 2023–2024 | United | |||
| 43rd | 2024–present | Sunita Dhir | New Democratic | |
Changes to the Vancouver-Langara electoral district in 1999 include:
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.
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| 2024 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Sunita Dhir | 8,112 | 48.11% | |||||
| Conservative | Bryan Breguet | 7,823 | 46.40% | |||||
| Green | Scottford Price | 926 | 5.49% | |||||
| Total valid votes | 17,562 | – | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered voters | ||||||||
| Source: Elections BC [1] | ||||||||
| 2020 provincial election redistributed results [2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | % | ||
| Liberal | 46.4 | ||
| New Democratic | 44.1 | ||
| Green | 8.4 | ||
| Libertarian | 1.1 | ||
| 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 | 99.12 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 180 | 0.88 | +0.23 | |||||
| Turnout | 20,563 | 49.45 | −6.99 | |||||
| Registered voters | 41,581 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | −1.12 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC [3] [4] | ||||||||
| 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 [5] [6] | ||||||||
| 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 [7] | ||||||||
| 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 [8] | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| 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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