Esquimalt-Metchosin is a former provincial

electoral district An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

for the

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, Canada. It existed with this name from 1991 to 2009, and again from 2017 to 2024. In the gap, the overlapping electoral district was called Esquimalt-Royal Roads. The " Royal Roads" in the district's name references the maritime passage that connects the Harbour to the sea and is the namesake of

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. The riding was reconfigured and brought back in the 2015 electoral redistribution and was contested again in the 2017 election. The 2021 redistribution that took effect for the 2024 election significantly altered electoral boundaries in the western communities: Metchosin was transferred to the new district of

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while the balance of the district's territory was joined to

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to form

Esquimalt-Colwood Esquimalt-Colwood is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Created under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, the riding was first contested in the 2024 British Columbia general e ...

Demographics

Geography

The Esquimalt-Metchosin electoral district is made up of the municipalities of

Esquimalt The Township of Esquimalt () is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, British Columbia, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Jua ...

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, Colwood, and

Metchosin The District of Metchosin () is a municipality and community in Greater Victoria on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is a coastal community adjacent to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Metchosin is part of the We ...

in western

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. Esquimalt-Royal Roads included communities that surround

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, including

to the east and Colwood to the west.

History

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Its current MLA is Mitzi Dean, the former executive director for Pacific Centre Family Services. She was first elected in

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. She represents the

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Election results

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, Sylvia Danyluk , align="right", 60 , align="right", 0.26% , align="right", , align="right", $118 , Independent , David M. Shebib , align="right", 58 , align="right", 0.25% , align="right", , align="right", , - , NDP , Moe Sihota , align="right", 13,458 , align="right", 59.16% , align="right", , align="right", $84,498 , -

External links

BC Stats Profile - 2001Results of 2001 election (pdf)2001 Expenditures1996 ExpendituresWebsite of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

References

{{British Columbia provincial electoral districts, 1991, 2009 Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia on Vancouver Island