Maple Ridge-Mission is a provincial electoral district for the

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, Canada. The riding's name was resurrected from a former riding in the same area, with similar but not identical boundaries (see History section).

Geography

Redistribution

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is the deliberative assembly of the Parliament of British Columbia, in the pr ...

and Mission-Kent were created from Dewdney during the 1989 redistribution. Whereas later in 2000, Mission-Kent and

were used to create Maple Ridge-Mission. Finally in the latest redistribution, 2008, just over half of the original riding remain and to it was added a fraction of

History

Its MLA was Randy Hawes under the former boundary system, who is a former

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of the District of Mission. He was first elected in 2001, representing the

British Columbia Liberal Party The British Columbia Liberal Party, often shortened to the BC Liberals, is a Centre-right politics, centre-right provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the Official Opposition. Subsequent to the 2020 Br ...

. He successfully ran again in the Abbotsford-Mission riding for the 2009 election.

Member of Legislative Assembly

Electoral history

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External links

BC Stats - 2001 (pdf)Results of 2001 election (pdf)2001 Expenditures (pdf)Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

References

{{British Columbia provincial electoral districts, 2001, 2020 British Columbia provincial electoral districts Maple Ridge, British Columbia Mission, British Columbia Provincial electoral districts in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley