Maple Ridge East is a

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for the

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, Canada. A riding covering a similar area, Maple Ridge-Mission, was first created in 2001 and then had its boundaries adjusted in 2008. The riding adopted its current name and had minor boundary changes from the 2024 election, which implemented the results of the 2021 redistribution.

Geography

Redistribution

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and Mission-Kent were created from Dewdney during the 1989 redistribution. In 2000, Mission-Kent and

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

History

Its MLA was

Randy Hawes Randy Clifford Hawes (born 1947) is a Canadian politician from British Columbia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of BC, representing the provincial riding of Maple Ridge-Mission from 2001 to 2009, and Abbotsford-Mission from ...

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

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. He successfully ran again in the

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riding for the 2009 election.

Member of the 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

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