Victoria-Beacon Hill
Victoria-Beacon Hill is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.
Demographics
| Population | 49,427 |
| Population Change, 1996-2001 | -0.1% |
| Area (km²) | 12.39 |
| Pop. Density | 3,989 |
Geography
The riding comprises most of the City of Victoria, the provincial capital. It is bounded by the coastline to the south and west; by the Municipality of Oak Bay to the east, by Bay Street and Haultain Street to the north.
History
Victoria-Beacon Hill was created in 1989, in time for the British Columbia general election, 1991, after the abolition of the two-member district of Victoria along with all other such dual ridings. In the 2008 boundary redistribution, Victoria-Beacon Hill kept 89 per cent of its area and added nine per cent of Victoria-Hillside.
Member of Legislative Assembly
New Democratic Party of BC MLA Gretchen Brewin was elected to represent the riding in 1991. She was re-elected in 1996, and served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2000.
In 2001, Jeff Bray was elected, representing the British Columbia Liberal Party.
The current MLA is Carole James. She narrowly lost to Bray by 35 votes in 2001, but came back with an almost 2-1 margin of victory, as the BC NDP leader, in 2005. She was re-elected in the 2009 and 2013 provincial elections.
Election results
| British Columbia general election, 1991 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| New Democratic | Gretchen Brewin | 10,939 | 47.95% | $48,796 | ||||
| Liberal | Karen Bill | 7,434 | 32.59% | $4,696 | ||||
| Social Credit | Suzanne Hansen | 3,712 | 16.27% | $46,834 | ||||
| Green | Michael Timney | 728 | 3.19% | $1,300 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 22,813 | 100.00% | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 629 | 2.68% | ||||||
| Turnout | 23,442 | 74.06% | ||||||
| British Columbia general election, 1996 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| New Democratic | Gretchen Brewin | 11,960 | 52.51% | $39,468 | ||||
| Liberal | Howard Markson | 7,636 | 33.52% | $25,991 | ||||
| Progressive Democrat | Richard Fahl | 1,093 | 4.80% | $1,555 | ||||
| Green | Stephen DeMeulenaere | 1,008 | 4.43% | $1,750 | ||||
| Reform | Ken Conrad | 654 | 2.87% | $6,135 | ||||
| Social Credit | Lance van Dyk | 96 | 0.42% | $3,796 | ||||
| Libertarian | Jill Kolbinson | 92 | 0.40% | $130 | ||||
| Independent | Sequoia Nathan Maxwell | 73 | 0.32% | $124 | ||||
| Natural Law | Cal Danyluk | 64 | 0.28% | $118 | ||||
| Western Canada Concept | Bob Ward | 59 | 0.26% | $227 | ||||
| Common Sense | Johnny Douglas | 43 | 0.19% | $100 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 22,778 | 100.00% | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 194 | 0.84% | ||||||
| Turnout | 22,972 | 68.17% | ||||||
| British Columbia general election, 2001 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Liberal | Jeff Bray | 9,297 | 37.04% | $52,485 | ||||
| New Democratic | Carole James | 9,262 | 36.90% | $44,963 | ||||
| Green | Walter Meyer zu Erpen | 5,453 | 21.72% | $8,210 | ||||
| Marijuana | Troy Tompkins | 532 | 2.12% | $70 | ||||
| Unity | Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell | 290 | 1.15% | $3,817 | ||||
| Independent | Rob Botterell | 205 | 0.82% | $911 | ||||
| Communist | Kirsten Goodacre | 64 | 0.25% | $427 | ||||
| Total Valid Votes | 25,103 | 100.00% | ||||||
| Total Rejected Ballots | 153 | 0.53% | ||||||
| Turnout | 25,238 | 68.63% | ||||||
| British Columbia general election, 2005 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| New Democratic | Carole James | 15,064 | 57.21% | +20.31 | ||||
| Liberal | Jeff Bray | 8,091 | 30.73% | −6.31 | ||||
| Green | John William Miller | 2,783 | 10.57% | −11.15 | ||||
| Democratic Reform | David McCaig | 157 | 0.60% | +0.60 | ||||
| Independent | Benjamin McConchie | 121 | 0.46% | +0.46 | ||||
| Independent | Ingmar Lee | 116 | 0.44% | +0.44 | ||||
| Total | 26,332 | 100.00% | ||||||
| British Columbia general election, 2009 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ∆% | ||||
| New Democratic | Carole James | 13,400 | 55.37 | −1.84 | ||||
| Liberal | Dallas Henault | 6,375 | 26.34 | −4.39 | ||||
| Green | Adam Saab | 4,106 | 16.97 | +6.40 | ||||
| Independent | Saul Andersen | 319 | 1.32 | +1.32 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 24,200 | |||||||
Template:British Columbia provincial election, 2013/Victoria-Beacon Hill
External links
- BC Stats Profile - 2001
- Results of 2001 election (pdf)
- 2001 Expenditures
- Results of 1996 election
- 1996 Expenditures
- Results of 1991 election
- 1991 Expenditures
- Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia