Vancouver-Strathcona is a provincial
electoral district
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for the
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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, Canada.
The district of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant was created covering much of the same territory in 1991. The riding adopted its current name and had modest boundary adjustments from the
2024 election, which implemented the results of the
2021 redistribution.
Vancouver-Strathcona is widely considered one of the safest NDP seats in all of British Columbia, with the NDP routinely winning by over 40 points. Even during the
2001 landslide electoral victory for the
BC Liberals, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant was one of only two electoral districts to return an
NDP MLA. In that election, despite a massive province-wide turn away from the party the NDP won the seat by over 10 points, a much wider margin than
Vancouver-Hastings, the other seat to return a New Democrat.
Geography
This riding is located in the east end of
Vancouver
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, running from the eastern parts of the Downtown eastward to
Commercial Drive (the western parts of the downtown make up the neighbouring riding of
Vancouver-False Creek
Vancouver-False Creek is a former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, in use from 2009 to 2024. The riding took in most of Downtown Vancouver (the eastern part of Downtown is part of the Vancouver-Mount Pleasant riding) and ...
). The riding consists of the part of its namesake neighbourhood of
Mount Pleasant east of
Main Street, all of
Strathcona,
Downtown Eastside
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and
Gastown
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and a national historic site and a neighbourhood in the northwest section of the Downtown Eastside, adjacent to Downtown Vancouver.
Its ...
, as well as part of
Chinatown
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, the part of
Grandview-Woodland west of Commercial Drive and the part of
Kensington-Cedar Cottage north of
Kingsway.
Member of the Legislative Assembly
Its
MLA is
Joan Phillip, who was elected in a
2023 by-election to replace
Melanie Mark; Mark resigned her seat in April 2023.
Election results
Student vote results
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mock elections
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in Canadian elementary and secondary schools alongside general elections, with the same candidates and electoral system.
References
External links
BC StatsResults of 2001 election (pdf)2001 Expenditures (pdf)1996 ExpendituresResults of 1991 electionWebsite of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
{{British Columbia provincial electoral districts, 1991, 2024
British Columbia provincial electoral districts
Provincial electoral districts of Vancouver