Vancouver-Burrard is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared on the hustings in the 1933 general election.

For the next election, the riding will be split across two new ridings. The portion west of Burrard, Georgia, Jervis will become the new Vancouver-West End riding. The remainder of Vancouver-Burrard will join part of Vancouver-Fairview to become the new Vancouver-False Creek riding.

Demographics

From 2001 Canadian Census

Population, 2001	64,046
Population Change, 1996-2001	20.9%
Area (km²)	8.89
Pop. Density (people per km²)	7,204

Geography

History

Member of Legislative Assembly

The constituency is currently vacant as of September 8, 2008. Former Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly Lorne Mayencourt resigned after winning the federal Conservative nomination to run in Vancouver Centre riding in the 2008 federal election. A by-election has been called for October 29, 2008.

Arthur Griffiths has announced he will run as the BC Liberal candidate, while Spencer Herbert will run for the NDP. The same candidates had earlier announced they would run in Vancouver-West End before Mayencourt had decided to resign.

Election results

BC Liberal Arthur Griffiths NDP Spencer Herbert Green Drina Read Conservative Ian McLeod BC Liberal Lorne Mayencourt 12,009 42.16% -5.94 NDP Tim Stevenson 11,998 42.12% align="right"11.04 Green Janek Patrick John Kuchmistrz 3,698 12.98% -3.21 Libertarian John Clarke 388 1.36% Work Less Lisa Voldeng 170 0.60% Sex Party John Gordon Ince 111 0.39% DRBC Ian McLeod 82 0.29% Platinum Antonio Francisco Ferreira 27 0.09% Total 28,483 100.00 BC Liberal Lorne Mayencourt 11,396 48.11% align="right"10.88 $46,939 NDP Tim Stevenson 7,359 31.07% -18.63 $45,493 Green Robbie Mattu 3,826 16.15% align="right"13.52 $1,029 Marijuana Marc Emery 906 3.82% $394 Unity Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell 290 1.15% Independent Boris Bear 136 0.57% $157 People's Front Joseph Theriault 40 0.17% $57 Independent Rhino Helvis 25 0.11% $100 Total Valid Votes 23,688 100.00% Total Rejected Ballots 123 0.52% Turnout 23,811 63.67% NDP Tim Stevenson 10,646 49.70% -1.23 $43,534 BC Liberal Duncan Wilson 7,975 37.23% align="right"2.00 $50,880 PDA Laura McDiarmid 1,014 4.73% $1,072 Green Imtiaz Popat 563 2.63% align="right"0.32 $155 BC Reform Aletta Buday 671 3.13% $100 Libertarian John Clarke 458 2.14% Natural Law Wayne A. Melvin 93 0.43% $100 Total Valid Votes 21,420 100.00% Total Rejected Ballots 257 1.19% Turnout 21,677 62.68% NDP Emery Barnes 9,725 50.93% $56,902 BC Liberal Steven R. Bourne 6,727 35.23% $7,987 Social Credit Joy Davies 2,201 11.53% $29,256 Green Andy Telfer 441 2.31% $1,349 Total Valid Votes 19,094 100.00% Total Rejected Ballots 552 2.81% Turnout 19,646 65.59%

External links

• BC Stats
• Map of riding
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
• Website of the Vancouver-Burrard New Democrats

References