Maple Ridge East

Maple Ridge East is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

Maple Ridge East

British Columbia electoral district
Location in the Lower Mainland
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Lawrence Mok Conservative
District created	2001
First contested	2001
Last contested	2024

A riding covering a similar area, Maple Ridge-Mission,^[1] was first created in 2001 and then had its boundaries adjusted in 2008. The riding adopted its current name and had minor boundary changes from the 2024 election, which implemented the results of the 2021 redistribution.^[2]

History

Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows and Mission-Kent were created from Dewdney during the 1989 redistribution. In 2000, Mission-Kent and Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows were used to create Maple Ridge-Mission. Finally in the 2008 redistribution, just over half of the original riding remain and to it was added a fraction of Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows.^[1]

Demographics

Population, 2001	56,951
Population Change, 1996–2001	6.9%
Area (km2)	3,909.22
Pop. Density (people per km2)	14.6

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Maple Ridge-Mission
37th	2001–2005		Randy Hawes	Liberal
38th	2005–2009
39th	2009–2013		Marc Dalton
40th	2013–2017
41st	2017–2020		Bob D'Eith	New Democratic
42nd	2020–2024
Maple Ridge East
43rd	2024-		Lawrence Mok	Conservative

Election results

v t e 2024 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Lawrence Mok	12,058	47.02	–	$13,720.30
	New Democratic	Bob D'Eith	11,961	46.64	-7.9	$46,506.63
	Green	Kylee Williams	1,626	6.34	-3.8	$0.00
Total valid votes/expense limit			25,645	99.81	–	$71,700.08
Total rejected ballots			49	0.19	–
Turnout			25,694	57.95	–
Registered voters			44,335
	Conservative notional gain from New Democratic		Swing		+27.4
Source: Elections BC[3][4]

2020 provincial election redistributed results[5]
Party		%
	New Democratic	54.5
	Liberal	35.4
	Green	10.1

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election: Maple Ridge-Mission
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bob D'Eith	14,721	55.15	+13.21	$44,290.44
	Liberal	Chelsa Meadus	9,009	33.75	−6.92	$50,223.21
	Green	Matt Trenholm	2,962	11.10	−2.12	$0.00
Total valid votes			26,692	100.00	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC[6][7]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election: Maple Ridge-Mission
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Bob D'Eith	10,989	41.94	+2.13	$68,144
	Liberal	Marc Dalton	10,664	40.70	−5.89	$59,214
	Green	Peter Pak Chiu Tam	3,464	13.22	+5.01	$9,786
	Conservative	Trevor Hamilton	935	3.57	−1.80
	Libertarian	Jeff Monds	148	0.57	–
Total valid votes			26,200	100.00
Total rejected ballots			128	0.49
Turnout			26,328	61.69
Registered Voters			42,678
Source: Elections BC[8]

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election: Maple Ridge-Mission
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marc Dalton	10,327	46.59	+0.87
	New Democratic	Mike Bocking	8,820	39.81	–5.58
	Green	Alex Pope	1,818	8.21	+1.01
	Conservative	Chad Thompson	1,190	5.37	–
Total valid votes			22,155	100.00
Total rejected ballots			152	0.68
Turnout			22,307	57.91
Source: Elections BC[9]

B.C. General Election 2009 Maple Ridge-Mission

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marc Dalton	8,802	45.72%
	NDP	Mike Bocking	8,738	45.39%
	Green	Michael Gildersleeve	1,387	7.20%	–
	Reform	Ian Vaughan	325	1.69%
Total			19,252	100.00%

v t e 2005 British Columbia general election: Maple Ridge-Mission
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Randy Hawes	12,095	44.30
	New Democratic	Jenny Stevens	11,896	43.57
	Green	William Stanley Walsh	2,633	9.64
	Marijuana	Carol Gwilt	314	1.15
	Independent	Chum Richardson	312	1.14
	Platinum	Keith Smith	53	0.19
Total			26,080	100.00

v t e 2001 British Columbia general election: Maple Ridge-Mission
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Randy Hawes	12,920	56.67	$36,054
	New Democratic	Rose Bennett	4,710	20.66	$19,157
	Green	Dawn Paley	2,910	12.76	$296
	Unity	David Ritchie	1,037	4.55	$1,487
	Marijuana	Denise Briere-Smart	908	3.98	$394
	Independent	Dale Randall	252	1.11	$4,144
	Independent	Chum Richardson	81	0.49	$103
Total valid votes			22,800	100.00
Total rejected ballots			127	0.56
Turnout			22,927	70.87

See also

• List of British Columbia provincial electoral districts
• Canadian provincial electoral districts