Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is a provincial

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for the

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, Canada. It was one of only two electoral districts to return an

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MLA in the 2001 election when the NDP was nearly wiped off the electoral map, and it did so by a much wider margin than

Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Hastings is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Geography History This riding has elected the following Members of Legislative Assembly: Member of Legislative A ...

, the other seat to return a New Democrat. The NDP routinely wins by over 40 points in this riding. Even during the

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landslide victory for the

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, the NDP won this riding by over 10 points, despite a massive province-wide turn away from the party. Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is therefore considered one of the safest NDP seats in all of British Columbia. This riding consists of its namesake neighbourhood

Mount Pleasant, Vancouver Mount Pleasant is a neighbourhood in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, stretching from Cambie Street to Clark Drive and from Great Northern Way and 2nd, to 16th and Kingsway. The neighbourhood, once characterized as working-class, ...

and the eastern parts of downtown Vancouver including

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and

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while the western parts of downtown make up the neighbouring riding of

Vancouver-False Creek Vancouver-False Creek is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada. The current MLA is Brenda Bailey of the BC NDP. Established by the ''Electoral Districts Act, 2008'', Vancouver-False Creek was first contested in the 2009 ...

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Melanie Mark, the first First Nation woman elected to the

, who was elected in a 2016 by-election to replace

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. Kwan had resigned the previous year in order to run in the 2015 Canadian federal election.

Election results

References

External links

BC StatsResults of 2001 election (pdf)2001 Expenditures (pdf)1996 ExpendituresWebsite of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
{{BC-ED Politics of Vancouver British Columbia provincial electoral districts Provincial electoral districts in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley