Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was one of only two electoral districts to return an NDP MLA in the 2001 election when the NDP was nearly wiped off the electoral map, and it did so by a much wider margin than Vancouver-Hastings, the other seat to return a New Democrat.
British Columbia electoral district | |||
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
MLA |
New Democratic | ||
First contested | 1991 | ||
Last contested | 2023 | ||
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 |
The NDP routinely wins by over 40 points in this riding. Even during the 2001 landslide victory for the BC Liberals, the NDP won this riding by over 10 points, despite a massive province-wide turn away from the party. Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is therefore considered one of the safest NDP seats in all of British Columbia.
Under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed Vancouver-Strathcona.[1]