Abbotsford South is a provincial electoral district in
British Columbia
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, Canada, established by the
''Electoral Districts Act, 2008''. It came into effect in the 2009 provincial general election.
Geography
The electoral district comprises the part of the city of
Abbotsford (including its city centre, Barrowtown, Poplar, and Aberdeen) lying to the east and south of the following line: commencing at Bradner Road and the
Canada–United States border
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, north along said road to
Highway 1, thence southeast along said highway to Fishtrap Creek, thence northeast along said creek to Old Yale Road, thence east along said road to Marshall Road, thence north along said road to Whatcom Road, thence north along said road to McKee Road, thence east along said road to Sumas Mountain Road, thence south along said road back to Highway 1, thence northeast along said highway to the eastern limit of said city.
History
This riding has been represented by the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
Member of the Legislative Assembly
On account of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term.
John van Dongen,
British Columbia Liberal Party
BC United (BCU), known from 1903 until 2023 as the British Columbia Liberal Party or BC Liberals, is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party has been described as conservative, neoliberal, and occupying a centre-right ...
was initially elected during a 1995 election to the
Abbotsford-Clayburn
Abbotsford-Clayburn was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009.
Demographics
Geography
1999 redistribution
Changes from Abbotsford to Abbotsford-Mount Lehman include:
...
riding and has represented them until 2013. He unsuccessfully ran for re-election in the newly created riding of Abbotsford South and lost to
Darryl Plecas.
Starting in 2012, the riding has established a unique trend of MLAs switching political parties between elections, with John van Dongen, Darryl Plecas, and Bruce Banman all leaving the Liberal Party (now BC United) and either sitting as independents or joining the Conservative Party. Van Dongen lost re-election after leaving the Conservatives in turn, while Plecas did not stand for re-election.
Election results
See also
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List of British Columbia provincial electoral districts
This is a list of the 93 provincial electoral districts (also informally known as ''ridings'' in Canadian English) of British Columbia, Canada, as defined by the 2021 electoral redistribution. These ridings came into effect for the 2024 British ...
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Canadian provincial electoral districts
Canadian provincial electoral districts have boundaries that are non- coterminous with those of the federal electoral districts, except for districts in the province of Ontario, where districts in the Southern Ontario region are coterminous wh ...
References
British Columbia provincial electoral districts
Politics of Abbotsford, British Columbia
Provincial electoral districts in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley
British Columbian provincial electoral districts established in 2008
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