Vancouver-Little Mountain

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Vancouver-Little Mountain was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1966 as a two-member seat. It returned as a two-member seat from 1966 to 1986 and became a one-member seat thereafter. After the 1996 election, the areas it comprised were redistributed. Successor ridings, roughly, are Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Langara.

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Under the new representation order of the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution approved in 2023, the Vancouver-Little Mountain name will be revived, with the new electoral district taking territory from the existing Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-False Creek, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Kensington ridings.

MLAs

Dual-member district

AssemblyYearsSeat 1Seat 2
MemberPartyMemberParty
Riding created from Vancouver East and Vancouver-Point Grey
28th 1966–1969 Leslie Raymond Peterson Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy Social Credit
29th 1969–1972
30th 1972–1975 Phyllis Florence Young NDP Roy Thomas Cummings NDP
21st 1975–1979 Grace Mary McCarthy Social Credit Evan Maurice Wolfe Social Credit
32nd 1979–1983
33rd 1983–1986 Doug Mowat
34th 1986–1991

Single-member district

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
35th 1991–1996 Tom Perry NDP
36th 1996–2001 Gary Farrell-Collins Liberal
Riding dissolved into Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Riding re-created from Vancouver-False Creek, Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-Kensington, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
43rd

Demographics

Population, 1966
Population change, 1966–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Electoral history

28th British Columbia election, 1966
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Leslie Raymond Peterson 12,38024.74%unknown
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 11,56623.11%unknown
New Democratic Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie8,62017.23%unknown
New Democratic Robert Eugene Clair8,52317.03%unknown
  Liberal Edward Charles Sweeney4,6819.35%unknown
  Liberal Jean Margaret Crowley4,2708.53%unknown
Total valid votes50,040100.00%
Total rejected ballots455
Turnout%
29th British Columbia election, 1969
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Leslie Raymond Peterson 14,29225.47%unknown
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 14,04425.03%unknown
New Democratic Richard Melville Rockwell9,02016.07%unknown
New Democratic Dennis Frank Mulroney8,91315.88%unknown
  Liberal Peter Hector Pearse4,9948.90%unknown
  Liberal Robert Harry Beattie4,8518.64%unknown
Total valid votes56,114100.00%
Total rejected ballots345
Turnout%
30th British Columbia election, 1972
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
New Democratic Phyllis Florence Young 11,82220.06%unknown
New Democratic Roy Thomas Cummings 11,76119.96%unknown
Social Credit Leslie Raymond Peterson 11,21919.04%unknown
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 11,10918.85%unknown
  Liberal Richard John Joseph Durante3,8746.57%unknown
  Liberal David Baird Penfield Gibson3,8546.54%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Reginald David Grandison2,3584.00%unknown
  Progressive Conservative William Allan Brown2,2953.89%unknown
 IndependentDavid John Bader2530.43%unknown
Communist Homer Stevens 1580.27%unknown
Communist James William (Jim) Beynon1220.21%unknown
 IndependentGordon James Turner1010.17%unknown
Total valid votes58,926100.00%
Total rejected ballots417
Turnout%
31st British Columbia election, 1975
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 15,62726.62%unknown
Social Credit Evan Maurice Wolfe 15,31326.08%unknown
New Democratic Phyllis Florence Young 12,00020.44%unknown
New Democratic Roy Thomas Cummings 11,58719.74%unknown
  Liberal James Bruce Siemens1,5182.58%unknown
  Liberal Beverley E. Joyce Ballantyne1,3692.33%unknown
  Progressive Conservative William Allan Brown6971.19%unknown
  Progressive Conservative Eric Henry Burgoyne5991.02%unknown
Total valid votes58,710100.00%
Total rejected ballots595
Turnout%
32nd British Columbia election, 1979
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 19,35027.11%unknown
Social Credit Evan Maurice Wolfe 18,68926.18%unknown
New Democratic Michael Franklin Harcourt 17,00923.83%unknown
New Democratic Jean Swanson16,32922.88%unknown
Total valid votes71,377100.00%
Total rejected ballots1,143
Turnout%
33rd British Columbia election, 1983
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 20,57825.18%unknown
Social Credit Doug Mowat 20,40024.96%unknown
New Democratic Jean Swanson18,94323.18%unknown
New Democratic Gerry Scott18,82223.03%unknown
  Liberal William Pike Hopes1,6001.96%unknown
  Liberal Frank Arthur F.J. Jones1,3811.69%unknown
Total valid votes81,724100.00%
Total rejected ballots805
Turnout%
34th British Columbia election, 1986
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 18,04922.15%unknown
Social Credit Doug Mowat 15,96219.58%unknown
New Democratic Colin Patrick Kelly15,71719.28%unknown
New Democratic Adrienne Hazel Peacock 15,40718.90%unknown
  Liberal Arthur John Lee 10,62713.04%unknown
  Liberal Joyce E. Statton5,4986.75%unknown
People's Front Dorothy Jean O'Donnell1280.16%
People's Front Allan H. Bezanson111O.14%
Total valid votes81,499100.00%
Total rejected ballots1,219
Turnout%
35th British Columbia election, 1991 1
PartyCandidateVotes %±Expenditures
New Democratic Tom Perry 10,38345.43%unknown
  Liberal Michael K. Stebner8,18035.79%unknown
Social Credit Sharon E. White3,94417.26%unknown
Green Geoff Berner2591.13%unknown
 IndependentCheryl M. Maczko900.39%unknown
Total valid votes22,856100.00%
Total rejected ballots562
Turnout69.44%
1 Seat reduced to one member from two.
1996 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Liberal Gary Farrell-Collins 12,03650.25
New Democratic Margaret Birrell9,39039.20
Progressive Democrat Ted Phillip Bradley1,0624.43
Green Stuart Parker 7142.98
Reform David J. Waine4892.04
Independent Dan Grant960.40
Social Credit Gerold Kuklinski850.35
Natural Law Estelle Brooke820.34
Total valid votes23,954 100.00
Total rejected ballots184
Turnout67.80

After the 1996 election the Vancouver-Little Mountain riding was redistributed. Successor ridings, roughly, are Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Langara.

Sources

Elections BC Historical Returns

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