Vancouver-Langara

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

Demographics

Population, 2001	53,465
Population Change, 1996–2001	3.1%
Area (km²)	14.73
Pop. Density (people per km²)	3,630

History

1999 Redistribution

Changes to the Vancouver-Langara electoral district in 1999 include:

• Addition of the area bounded by 33rd and 41st Avenues, and Main and Granville Streets
• Removal of the area bounded by Granville Street, 41st Avenue, 57th Avenue, and the Arbutus rail line

Member of Legislative Assembly

The riding is currently held by MLA Dr. Moira Stilwell, who represents the British Columbia Liberal Party. Stilwell was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development in June 2009.

The previous MLA was Carole Taylor, former chair of the CBC and former Vancouver city councillor. She was first elected in 2005 and appointed the Minister of Finance. She represented the British Columbia Liberal Party. She resigned on December 18, 2008.

Election results

B.C. General Election 2013 Vancouver-Langara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Moira Stilwell	10,234	52.60		$114,807
	NDP	George Chow	7,447	38.28		$88,378
	Green	Regan Zhang	1,055	5.42	–	$827
	Conservative	Gurjinder Bains	674	3.47		$5,562
	Platinum	Espavo Sozo	45	0.23	–	$250
Total Valid Votes			19,455	100
Total Rejected Ballots			172	0.88
Turnout			19,627	50.52

British Columbia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Moira Stilwell	10,615	58.87	$89,931
	New Democratic	Helesia Luke	6,340	35.16	$19,002
	Green	J-M Toriel	1,075	5.97	$948
Total valid votes			18,030	100
Total rejected ballots			167	0.92
Turnout			18,197	47.71

B.C. General Election 2005 Vancouver-Langara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Carole Taylor	11,181	56.55		$78,828
	NDP	Anita Romaniuk	6,456	32.65		$9,044
	Green	Doug Warkentin	1,584	8.01	–	$815
	Marijuana	Mark Gueffroy	214	1.08		$100
	Libertarian	Christopher De Wilde	185	0.94		$100
	Work Less	Charlie Latimer	152	0.77	–	$100
Total Valid Votes			19,77	100
Total Rejected Ballots			183	0.93
Turnout			19,955	53.51

Popular vote by voting area

B.C. General Election 2001: Vancouver-Langara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val J. Anderson	11,800	66.90%		$29,498
	NDP	Peter G. Prontzos	2,999	17.00%		$2,596
	Green	Doug Warkentin	2,009	11.39%	–	$2,347
	Marijuana	Anthony Campbell	673	3.82%		$394
	Independent	Joe Young	105	0.60%		$362
	People's Front	Michael Hill	51	0.29%		$57
Total valid votes			17,637	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			203	1.15%
Turnout			17,840	67.38%

B.C. General Election 1996: Vancouver-Langara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val J. Anderson	11,038	60.20%		$25,864
	NDP	Ragini Rankin	5,515	30.08%		$29,984
	Progressive Democrat	Philip Read	839	4.58%	–	$488
	Reform	Christie Jung	519	2.83%		$7,749
	Green	Michael Airton	337	1.84%	–	$100
	Natural Law	Jerry Zen-Jih Chang	89	0.49%		$118
Total valid votes			18,337	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			177	0.96%
Turnout			18,514	68.66%

B.C. General Election 1991: Vancouver-Langara
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Val J. Anderson	7,241	36.95%		$13,737
	NDP	Peter M. Kendall	6,774	34.57%		$25,805
	Social Credit	Russell G. Fraser	5,374	27.42%	–	$50,387
	Green	Kamala J. Todd	134	0.68%	–	$32
	Conservative	Malcolm A. Weatherston	75	0.38%
Total valid votes			19,598	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			373	1.87%
Turnout			19,971	72.64%

External links

• BC Stats Profile-2001
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia