Vancouver-Strathcona

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

Vancouver-Strathcona

British Columbia electoral district
Location in Vancouver
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Joan Phillip New Democratic
First contested	1991
Last contested	2024
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 district of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant was created covering much of the same territory in 1991. The riding adopted its current name and had modest boundary adjustments from the 2024 election, which implemented the results of the 2021 redistribution.^[1]

Vancouver-Strathcona is widely considered one of the safest NDP seats in all of British Columbia, with the NDP routinely winning by over 40 points. Even during the 2001 landslide electoral victory for the BC Liberals, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant was one of only two electoral districts to return an NDP MLA. In that election, despite a massive province-wide turn away from the party the NDP won the seat by over 10 points, a much wider margin than Vancouver-Hastings, the other seat to return a New Democrat.

Geography

This riding is located in the east end of Vancouver, running from the eastern parts of the Downtown eastward to Commercial Drive (the western parts of the downtown make up the neighbouring riding of Vancouver-False Creek). The riding consists of the part of its namesake neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant east of Main Street, all of Strathcona, Downtown Eastside and Gastown, as well as part of Chinatown, the part of Grandview-Woodland west of Commercial Drive and the part of Kensington-Cedar Cottage north of Kingsway.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Joan Phillip, who was elected in a 2023 by-election to replace Melanie Mark; Mark resigned her seat in April 2023.^[2]

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Created from Vancouver Centre and Vancouver East
35th	1991–1996		Mike Harcourt	New Democratic
36th	1996–2001		Jenny Kwan
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2009
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2015
	2016–2017		Melanie Mark
41st	2017–2020
42nd	2020–2023
	2023–2024		Joan Phillip
Vancouver-Strathcona
43rd	2024–present		Joan Phillip	New Democratic

Election results

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

v t e 2024 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Joan Phillip	13,563	67.6%	-0.19
	Conservative	Scott Muller	3,427	17.1%	+12.19
	Green	Simon de Weerdt	2,731	13.6%	+2.04
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	336	1.7%	-0.37
Total valid votes			20,057	–
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Registered voters
Source: Elections BC

v t e British Columbia provincial by-election, June 24, 2023: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Resignation of Melanie Mark
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Joan Phillip	5,459	67.79	+0.84	$52,059.61
	BC United	Jackie Lee	1,101	13.67	+0.69	$57,476.94
	Green	Wendy Hayko	931	11.56	–8.51	$7,328.43
	Conservative	Karin Litzcke	395	4.91	New	$9,705.81
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	167	2.07	New	$0.00
Total valid votes/expenses limit			8,053	100.00	—	$69,086.25
Total rejected ballots			21	0.26	–0.71
Turnout			8,074	17.84	–30.17
Registered voters			45,533
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+0.08
Source: Elections BC[3][4]

v t e 2020 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Melanie Mark	14,530	66.95	+1.63	$22,210.72
	Green	Kelly Tatham	4,356	20.07	+3.14	$5,570.94
	Liberal	George Vassilas	2,816	12.98	−3.06	$8,413.63
Total valid votes			21,702	99.03	–
Total rejected ballots			212	0.97	−0.07
Turnout			21,914	48.01	−9.61
Registered voters			45,644
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−0.76
Source: Elections BC[5][6]

v t e 2017 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Melanie Mark	15,962	65.33	+5.18	$40,109
	Green	Jerry Kroll	4,136	16.93	−10.15	$68,641
	Liberal	Conny Lin	3,917	16.03	+4.74	$32,647
	Independent	Mike Hansen	212	0.87	–	$30
	Communist	Peter Marcus	135	0.55	–	$0
	Your Political Party	Shai Joseph Mor	72	0.29	−0.36	$85
Total valid votes			24,434	98.96	–
Total rejected ballots			256	1.04	+0.57
Turnout			24,690	57.62	+34.45
Registered voters			42,848
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+7.67
Source: Elections BC[7][8]

v t e British Columbia provincial by-election, February 2, 2016: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Resignation of Jenny Kwan
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Melanie Mark	5,627	60.14	−5.69	$71,603
	Green	Pete Fry	2,533	27.07	+15.16	$29,065
	Liberal	Gavin Dew	1,056	11.29	−7.46	$66,547
	Libertarian	Bonnie Boya Hu	79	0.84	–	$250
	Your Political Party	Jeremy Gustafson	61	0.65	–	$454
Total valid votes			9,356	99.53	–
Total rejected ballots			44	0.47	−0.51
Turnout			9,400	23.17	−26.60
Registered voters			40,561
	New Democratic hold		Swing		−10.42

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Wai Ching Kwan	13,845	65.83	+1.88	$78,020
	Liberal	Celyna Sia Sherst	3,942	18.74	−2.06	$18,622
	Green	Barinder Hans	2,506	11.92	−2.36	$7,727
	Marijuana	William Austin	349	1.66	–	$250
	Independent	Jeremy Gustafson	260	1.24	–	$480
	Communist	Peter Marcus	129	0.61	−0.36	$344
Total valid votes			21,031	99.03	–
Total rejected ballots			207	0.97	−0.25
Turnout			21,238	49.77	+3.30
Registered voters			42,672
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+1.97
Source: Elections BC[9]

2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	11,232	63.95	-0.29	$79,796
	Liberal	Sherry Darlene Wiebe	3,654	20.80	-0.48	$41,506
	Green	John T. Boychuck	2,507	14.27	+4.04	$7,013
	Communist	Peter Marcus	171	0.97	+0.49	$1,565
Total valid votes			17,564	98.77
Total rejected ballots			218	1.23	-0.30
Turnout			17,782	46.47	-3.46
Registered voters			38,267
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+0.09

2005 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	12,974	64.24	+19.76	$98,030
	Liberal	Juliet Andalis	4,298	21.28	-11.89	$34,819
	Green	Raven Bowen	2,066	10.23	-5.99	$1,882
	Marijuana	Christopher Patrick Bennett	308	1.53	-1.51	$100
	Independent	Mike Hansen	205	1.02		$406
	Work Less	Niki Westman	187	0.93		$100
	Communist	Peter Marcus	98	0.49	-0.40	$2,928
	Democratic Reform	Imtiaz Popat	43	0.21		$100
	Platinum	Kirk Anton Moses	17	0.08		$130
Total valid votes			20,196	98.48
Total rejected ballots			312	1.52	+0.25
Turnout			20,508	49.93	-9.43
Registered voters			41,071
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+15.83

2001 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	7,163	44.48	-19.57	$60,582
	Liberal	Gail Sparrow	5,343	33.18	+8.81	$56,796
	Green	Dale Hofmann	2,612	16.22	+11.86	$3,276
	Marijuana	David Malmo-Levine	489	3.04		$721
	Unity	Ken Wright	166	1.03		$185
	No Affiliation	Liar Liar	148	0.92
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	142	0.88	+0.19	$332
	Party of Citizens	Franklin Wayne Poley	42	0.26		$331
Total valid votes			16,105	98.72
Total rejected ballots			208	1.28	-0.33
Turnout			16,313	59.36	-1.14
Registered voters			27,480
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-14.19

1996 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	11,155	64.05	+0.72	$41,905
	Liberal	Anne Beer	4,243	24.36	+4.71	$32,735
	Green	Paul Alexander	759	4.36	+1.65	$100
	Progressive Democrat	John Spark	584	3.35		$100
	Reform	Wayne Marsden	354	2.03	+1.53
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	121	0.69		$319
	Natural Law	John S.W. Kent	114	0.65		$120
	Social Credit	Agnes Kokko	86	0.49	-12.93	$526
Total valid votes			17,416	98.40
Total rejected ballots			284	1.60	-2.02
Turnout			17,700	60.50	-3.52
Registered voters			29,255
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-1.99

1991 British Columbia general election: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Mike Harcourt	10,108	63.33	$105,044
	Liberal	Todd Gnissios	3,137	19.65	$3,341
	Social Credit	Randy Vannatter	2,143	13.43	$11,663
	Green	Grant Watson	432	2.71	$579
	Libertarian	John Wayne Marsden	80	0.50
	Interdependence	Jack Latek	62	0.39
Total valid votes			15,962	96.38
Total rejected ballots			600	3.62
Turnout			16,562	64.03
Registered voters			25,868

Student vote results

Student Vote Canada is a non-partisan program that holds mock elections in Canadian elementary and secondary schools alongside general elections, with the same candidates and electoral system.

2024 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	113	9.05	–
	Green	Simon de Weerdt	411	32.93	–
	Conservative	Scott Muller	197	15.79	–
	New Democratic	Joan Phillip	527	42.23	–
Total valid votes			1,248	100.0	–
Source: Student Vote Canada[10]

See also

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