Vancouver-Langara

Vancouver-Langara

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Michael Lee Liberal
Demographics
Census subdivision(s)	Vancouver

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

Demographics

Population, 2015	60,041
Population, 2007	57,047
Population, 1999	51,850
Area (km²)	15
Pop. Density (people per km²), 2015	4,002

History

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
35th	1991–1996		Val Anderson	Liberal
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2008		Carole Taylor
39th	2009–2013		Moira Stilwell
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–present		Michael Lee

1999 Redistribution

Changes to the Vancouver-Langara electoral district in 1999 include:

• Addition of the area bounded by 33rd and 41st Avenues, and Main and Granville Streets
• Removal of the area bounded by Granville Street, 41st Avenue, 57th Avenue, and the Arbutus rail line

Member of Legislative Assembly

This riding is currently held by MLA Michael Lee, who was elected in the 2017 Provincial General Election. He represents the British Columbia Liberal Party.

From 2009-2017, the riding was held by Moira Stilwell, who represented the British Columbia Liberal Party as well. Stilwell was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development in June 2009. Previously, the MLA was Carole Taylor, former chair of the CBC and former Vancouver City Councillor. She was first elected in 2005 and appointed the Minister of Finance. She represented the British Columbia Liberal Party. She resigned on December 18, 2008.

Election results

2017 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Michael Lee	10,047	47.46	−5.14	$57,579
	New Democratic	James Wang	8,058	38.06	−0.22	$76,064
	Green	Janet Rhoda Fraser	2,894	13.67	+8.25	$6,721
	Your Political Party	Surinder Singh Trehan	172	0.81	–	$6,699
Total valid votes			21,171	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			138	0.65	−0.23
Turnout			21,309	56.44	+5.92
Registered voters			37,754
Source: Elections BC

2013 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Moira Stilwell	10,234	52.60
	New Democratic	George Chow	7,447	38.28
	Green	Regan-Heng Zhang	1,055	5.42
	Conservative	Gurjinder Bains	674	3.46
	Platinum	Espavo Sozo	45	0.23
Total valid votes			19,455	100.00
Total rejected ballots			172	0.88
Turnout			19,627	50.52
Source: Elections BC

2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Moira Stilwell	10,615	58.87	$89,931
	New Democratic	Helesia Luke	6,340	35.16	$19,002
	Green	J-M Toriel	1,075	5.97	$948
Total valid votes			18,030	100
Total rejected ballots			167	0.92
Turnout			18,197	47.71
Source: Elections BC

B.C. General Election 2005 Vancouver-Langara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Carole Taylor	11,181	56.55		$78,828
	NDP	Anita Romaniuk	6,456	32.65		$9,044
	Green	Doug Warkentin	1,584	8.01	–	$815
	Marijuana	Mark Gueffroy	214	1.08		$100
	Libertarian	Christopher De Wilde	185	0.94		$100
	Work Less	Charlie Latimer	152	0.77	–	$100
Total Valid Votes			19,77	100
Total Rejected Ballots			183	0.93
Turnout			19,955	53.51

Popular vote by voting area

B.C. General Election 2001: Vancouver-Langara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val J. Anderson	11,800	66.90%		$29,498
	NDP	Peter G. Prontzos	2,999	17.00%		$2,596
	Green	Doug Warkentin	2,009	11.39%	–	$2,347
	Marijuana	Anthony Campbell	673	3.82%		$394
	Independent	Joe Young	105	0.60%		$362
	People's Front	Michael Hill	51	0.29%		$57
Total valid votes			17,637	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			203	1.15%
Turnout			17,840	67.38%

B.C. General Election 1996: Vancouver-Langara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val J. Anderson	11,038	60.20%		$25,864
	NDP	Ragini Rankin	5,515	30.08%		$29,984
	Progressive Democrat	Philip Read	839	4.58%	–	$488
	Reform	Christie Jung	519	2.83%		$7,749
	Green	Michael Airton	337	1.84%	–	$100
	Natural Law	Jerry Zen-Jih Chang	89	0.49%		$118
Total valid votes			18,337	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			177	0.96%
Turnout			18,514	68.66%

B.C. General Election 1991: Vancouver-Langara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val J. Anderson	7,241	36.95%		$13,737
	NDP	Peter M. Kendall	6,774	34.57%		$25,805
	Social Credit	Russell G. Fraser	5,374	27.42%	–	$50,387
	Green	Kamala J. Todd	134	0.68%	–	$32
	Conservative	Malcolm A. Weatherston	75	0.38%
Total valid votes			19,598	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			373	1.87%
Turnout			19,971	72.64%

External links

• Vancouver-Langara Electoral District Map (pdf)
• Results of 2013 election (pdf)
• Results of 2009 election (pdf)
• Results of 2005 election (pdf)
• BC Electoral Boundaries Report, 2015 (pdf)