Richmond-Steveston

Richmond-Steveston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

Richmond-Steveston

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	John Yap Liberal
District created	1988
First contested	1991
Last contested	2013
Demographics
Population (2011)	59,125
Area (km²)	25.135
Pop. density (per km²)	2,352.3
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Richmond

History

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
35th	1991–1996		Allan Warnke	Liberal
36th	1996–2001		Geoff Plant
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2009		John Yap
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–present

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is John Yap. He was first elected in 2005, and was re-elected in 2009, 2013 and 2017. He represents the British Columbia Liberal Party.

Election results

2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Yap	10,332	47.60	−4.07	$63,896
	New Democratic	Kelly Greene	8,542	39.35	+11.28	$21,429
	Green	Roy Sakata	2,833	13.05	+4.91	$2,449
Total valid votes			21,707	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			192	0.88	+0.22
Turnout			21,899	62.77	+7.38
Registered voters			34,889
	Liberal hold		Swing		−7.68
Source: Elections BC

2013 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Yap	12063	51.67	-9.33	$154,933
	New Democratic	Scott Stewart	6553	28.07	+1.07	$19,284
	Conservative	Carol Day	2662	11.40	+6.4	$8,744
	Green	Jerome James Dickey	1904	8.15	+1.15	$3,559
	Unparty	Mike Donovan	166	0.71	–	$1,055
Total valid votes			23431	100.00
Total rejected ballots			155	0.66
Turnout			23586	55.39
Source: Elections BC

2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Yap	13,168	61	+2	$109,468
	New Democratic	Sue Wallis	5,925	27	−4	$17,718
	Green	Jeff Hill	1,491	7	−1	$350
	Conservative	Barry Chilton	1,082	5	–	$450
Total valid votes			21,666	100
Total rejected ballots			167	0.76
Turnout			21,833	52

2005 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	John Yap	13,859	59.20	$90,951
	New Democratic	Kay Hale	7,334	31.33	$8,858
	Green	Egidio Spinelli	1,934	8.27	$731
	Democratic Reform	Daniel Stuart Ferguson	282	1.20	$247
Total valid votes			23,409	100
Total rejected ballots			152	0.65
Turnout			23,561	59.87

2001 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Geoff Plant	14,508	69.23	$56,820
	New Democratic	Billie Mortimer	2,564	12.24	$2,734
	Green	Kevan Hudson	2,257	10.77	$1,063
	Marijuana	Gordon Mathias	561	2.68	$705
	Unity	Vincent Paul	381	1.82	$610
	Independent	Allan Warnke	358	1.71	$1,562
	Conservative	Barry Edward Chilton	160	0.76	$240
	Reform	Sue Wade	145	0.69	$610
	People's Front	Edith Petersen	21	0.10	$100
Total valid votes			20,955	100.00
Total rejected ballots			125	0.60
Turnout			21,080	73.27
Source: Elections BC

1996 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Geoff Plant	9,643	56.65	$39,769
	New Democratic	Gail Paquette	5,041	29.61	$32,144
	Progressive Democrat	Pat Young	919	5.40	$550
	Reform	Shirley Abraham-Kirk	556	3.27	$2,765
	Independent	Allan Warnke	450	2.64	$5,795
	Green	Brian Gold	188	1.10	$100
	Conservative	Gary L. Cross	99	0.58	$1,132
	Social Credit	Gordon Neuls	88	0.52	$4,315
	Natural Law	Nancy Stewart	38	0.23	$123
Total valid votes			17,022	100.00
Total rejected ballots			85	0.50
Turnout			17,107	74.36
Source: Elections BC

1991 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Allan Warnke	6,664	38.32	$2,332
	New Democratic	Harold Steves	6,054	34.81	$24,142
	Social Credit	Nick Loenen	4,609	26.50	$44,277
	Conservative	Gary L. Cross	65	3.19	$2,858
Total valid votes			17,392	100.00
Total rejected ballots			321	1.81
Turnout			17,713	77.67

See also

• Richmond
• Steveston

External links

• BC Stats Profile - 2001
• Results of 2001 election
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia