Maple Ridge-Mission

Maple Ridge-Mission

British Columbia electoral district
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Marc Dalton Liberal
District created	2001
First contested	2001
Last contested	2009

Maple Ridge-Mission is a newly formed provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.^[1]

The riding's name was resurrected from a former riding in the same area, with similar but not identical boundaries (see History section).

Geography

Redistribution

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

History

Its MLA was Randy Hawes under the former boundary system. He is a former mayor of the District of Mission. He was first elected in 2001. He represents the British Columbia Liberal Party. He successfully ran again in the Abbotsford-Mission riding for the 2009 election.

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

Member of Legislative Assembly

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
37th	2001–2005		Randy Hawes	Liberal
38th	2005–2009
39th	2009–2013		Marc Dalton	Liberal
40th	2013–present

Electoral history post 2008

B.C. General Election 2013: Maple Ridge-Mission
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Marc Dalton	10,327	46.59%	+0.87
	New Democratic	Mike Bocking	8,830	39.84%	-5.55
	Green	Alex Pope	1,818	8.20%	+1.00
	Conservative	Chad Thompson	1,190	5.37%	+5.37
Total Valid Votes
Total Rejected Ballots
Turnout

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%

Election history prior to 2008

British Columbia general election, 2001
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%

British Columbia general election, 2005
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%

External links

• BC Stats - 2001 (pdf)
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

References

1. "CBC.ca - B.C. Votes - Maple Ridge-Mission". CBC. Retrieved 2009-04-11.