Vancouver-Renfrew

Vancouver-Renfrew is a provincial electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in Canada.

"Vancouver-Kingsway" redirects here. For the federal electoral district that incorporates some of the same area, see Vancouver Kingsway.

Vancouver-Renfrew

British Columbia electoral district
Location in Vancouver
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Adrian Dix New Democratic
First contested	1991
Last contested	2020
Demographics
Population (2001)	54,379
Area (km²)	9.02
Pop. density (per km²)	6,028.7
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Vancouver

The district of Vancouver-Kingsway was created in 1991 covering much of the same territory and subsequently had its boundaries modestly adjusted in 2001, 2009, and 2017. The riding was renamed Vancouver-Renfrew and had further boundary adjustments prior to the 2024 election, which implemented the results of the 2021 redistribution.^[1]

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Since 2005, the district's member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) has been Adrian Dix. He represents the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

History

Assembly	Years	Member	Party
35th	1991–1996	Glen Clark		New Democratic
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001–2005	Rob Nijjar		Liberal
38th	2005–2009	Adrian Dix		New Democratic
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–2020
42nd	Since 2020

Election results

Graph of the election results in Vancouver-Kingsway (minor parties are combined into "Others")

2024 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Adrian Dix
	Conservative	Tom Ikonomou
	Green	Lawrence Taylor
Total valid votes				–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC

2020 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Kingsway
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Adrian Dix	12,297	67.81	+7.18	$28,463.86
	Liberal	Cole Anderson	3,919	21.61	−5.48	$1,200.00
	Green	Scott Bernstein	1,662	9.16	−0.15	$1,539.01
	Libertarian	Karin Litzcke	257	1.42	–	$0.00
Total valid votes			18,135	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			175	0.96	+0.09
Turnout			18,310	44.50	−8.85
Registered voters			41,144
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+6.33
Source: Elections BC[2][3]

2017 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Kingsway
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Adrian Dix	12,031	60.63	+3.86	$63,235
	Liberal	Trang Nguyen	5,377	27.09	−8.32	$49,362
	Green	Ellisa Calder	1,848	9.31	+2.04	$1,244
	Conservative	Charles Bae	504	2.54	–	$855
	Your Political Party	Brette Mullins	85	0.43	–	$1,053
Total valid votes			19,845	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots			174	0.87	−0.44
Turnout			20,019	53.35	+4.39
Registered voters			37,521
Source: Elections BC[4][5]

2013 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Kingsway
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Adrian Dix	10,409	56.77	+1.60	$139,024
	Liberal	Gurjit Dhillon	6,600	35.99	−5.97	$40,883
	Green	Gregory Dale Esau	1,327	7.24	+3.06	$250
Total valid votes			18,336	100.00
Total rejected ballots			244	1.31
Turnout			18,580	48.96
Source: Elections BC[6]

2011 British Columbia sales tax referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	13,701	72.45%
	No	5,211	27.55%

2009 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Kingsway
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Adrian Dix	9,229	55.17	$87,767
	Liberal	Bill Yuen	6,518	38.96	$69,706
	Green	Rev Warkentin	699	4.18	$353
	Libertarian	Matt Kadioglu	171	1.02	$250
	People's Front	Charles Boylan	122	0.67	$250
Total valid votes			16,739	100.00
Total rejected ballots			215	1.27
Turnout			16,944	46.99

2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	First-past-the-post	9,309	59.98%
	BC-STV	6,211	40.02%

2005 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Kingsway
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Adrian Dix	10,038	51.44	$84,411
	Liberal	Rob Nijjar	7,894	40.46	$115,864
	Green	Stuart Mackinnon	1,212	6.21	$4,556
	Marijuana	Steven Mackenzie Lay	219	1.12	$100
	People's Front	Donna Petersen	77	0.39	$103
	Sex	Yvonne Maylynne Tink	73	0.37	$100
Total valid votes			19,513	100
Total rejected ballots			239	1.22
Turnout			19,752	54.19

2005 British Columbia electoral reform referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	9,974	53.87%
	No	8,541	46.13%

2001 British Columbia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Rob Nijjar	8,264	49.89%		$41,856
	NDP	Alicia Barsallo	5,429	32.78%		$41,185
	Green	Geoff Lyon	1,725	10.41%	–	$468
	Unity	Sal Vetro	541	3.27%		$2,569
	Marijuana	Steven Mackenzie Lay	364	2.20%		$394
	Council of British Columbians	Tyler Ducharme	159	0.96%		$3,268
	People's Front	Donna Petersen	81	0.49%		$767
Total valid votes			16,563	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			188	1.14%
Turnout			16,751	67.14%

1996 British Columbia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Glen Clark	10,525	55.46%		$35,297
	Liberal	Francis Ho	6,997	36.87%		$43,041
	Progressive Democrat	Julia Marks	518	4.80%	–	$1,087
	Reform	Graham Norton	367	1.93%		$1,558
	Green	Marilyn Hogan	264	1.39%	–	$100
	Libertarian	Randy Eremko	98	0.52%		$160
	Social Credit	Patrick S. Saunders	75	0.40%	–	$3,339
	Independent	Protais Haje	69	0.36%		$972
	Natural Law	Steven R. Beck	65	0.34%		$136
Total valid votes			18,978	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			257	1.34%
Turnout			19,235	71.07%

1991 British Columbia general election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Glen Clark	9,292	54.79%		$43,714
	Liberal	Elaine M. White	4,390	25.88%		$1,896
	Social Credit	Christie Jung	3,112	18.35%	–	$16,483
	Green	Michael G. Horn	137	0.81%	–	$14
	Non-affiliated (Communist League)	Ned W. Dmytryshyn	29	0.17%		$247
Total valid votes			16,960	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			599	3.41%
Turnout			17,559	70.85%

1991 recall referendum

1991 British Columbia recall and initiative referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	13,033	86.16%
	No	2,093	13.84%

1991 initiative referendum

1991 British Columbia recall and initiative referendum
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	12,688	87.26%
	No	1,852	12.74%

See also

• Vancouver Kingsway (federal electoral district)

References

1. "Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, Langley in line for 4 of 6 new proposed B.C. ridings". British Columbia. April 17, 2023. Retrieved April 24, 2024.
2. "Statement of Votes — 42nd Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved August 31, 2021.
3. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
4. "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 26, 2020.
5. "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved September 13, 2020.
6. "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.

External links

• BC Stats
• 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

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Preceded by Vancouver-Mount Pleasant	Constituency represented by the premier of British Columbia 1996–1999	Succeeded by North Coast

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