Vancouver-Point Grey

Vancouver-Point Grey is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 1933. Since 2013, the riding has been represented by David Eby, who has been leader of the New Democratic Party and Premier of British Columbia since 2022.

Demographics Population, 202156,818Area (km2)41 density (people per km2)0.74Source: BC Electoral Boundaries Commission

Geography The district comprises the Vancouver neighbourhoods of West Point Grey and the western part of Kitsilano, as well as the adjacent University Endowment Lands and the Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia.

History The riding was created out of parts of Richmond-Point Grey, South Vancouver, and Vancouver City, and was first contested in the 1933 general election as a three-member district. It was reduced to a two-member district in 1966 when Vancouver-Little Mountain was created and was further reduced to a one-member district when all remaining multi-member urban districts where converted to one-member districts in the redistribution preceding the 1991 election. When it was a multiple-member district, its seats were filled using plurality block voting, except in 1952 and 1953, when instant-runoff voting was used in a separate contest for each seat.

2023 recall petition In 2023, a petition to recall the district's MLA, David Eby, was approved by Elections BC under the Recall and Initiative Act. However, the petition did not attract the required number of signatures. This was the third invocation of the recall procedure in Vancouver-Point Grey since the act was passed in 1994. (The other two unsuccessful attempts, in 1998 and 2003, both targeted Gordon Campbell.)

Members of the Legislative Assembly This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Single-member district

Three-member district AssemblyYearsSeat 1Seat 2Seat 3Member PartyMember PartyMember Party18th1933–1937Stanley McKeenLiberalGeorge Moir WeirLiberal Robert WilkinsonLiberal19th1937–1941Royal MaitlandConservativeJames Alexander Paton Conservative20th1941–1945 Tilly Rolston Conservative21st1945–1946 Coalition Coalition Coalition1946–1949Albert Reginald MacDougallLeigh Stevenson22nd1949–195223rd1952–1953 Progressive Conservative Social Credit George Clark Miller Progressive Conservative24th1953–1956 Thomas Audley Bate Social Credit Robert Bonner Arthur LaingLiberal25th1956–1960Buda BrownSocial Credit 26th1960–19621962–1963Pat McGeerLiberal27th1963–1966Ralph Raymond LoffmarkSocial Credit

Dual-member district

AssemblyYearsSeat 1Seat 2Member PartyMember Party28th1966–1969Garde Basil GardomLiberalPatrick Lucey McGeerLiberal29th1969–197230th1972–1974Social Credit1974–1975 Social Credit31st1975–197932nd1979–198333rd1983–198634th1986–1988 Kim CampbellDarlene MarzariNew Democratic1989–1991Tom PerryNew Democratic

Election results

2020 provincial election redistributed results Party % New Democratic 49.6 Liberal 32.8 Green 17.5

2018 British Columbia electoral reform referendumSide Votes %Proportional representation9,57952.89First Past the Post8,53347.11Total valid votes18,112100.0Total rejected ballots810.45Source: Elections BC

Student vote results Student Vote Canada is a non-partisan program in Canada that holds mock elections in elementary and high schools alongside general elections (with the same candidates and same electoral system).

Electoral history 1933–1986 Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

For the alternative voting (instant-runoff voting) elections of 1952 and 1953, each of the district's voters were presented with three ballots, one for each seat, with a separate contest for each seat:

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