 British Columbia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Location in Vancouver | |||
| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
| MLA |
New Democratic | ||
| First contested | 1991 | ||
| Last contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2001) | 53,986 | ||
| Area (km²) | 9.64 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 5,600.2 | ||
| Census division(s) | Metro Vancouver | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Vancouver | ||
Vancouver-Strathcona is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, 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.[1]
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 victory for the BC Liberals, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant (as it was then named) 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.
- ^ "Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Langley in line for 4 of 6 new proposed B.C. ridings". British Columbia. April 17, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2024.