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Vancouver Quadra

Vancouver Quadra
Wade Grant
LiberalDistrict created1947First contested1949Last contested2025District webpageprofile, mapDemographicsPopulation (2016)105,608Electors (2021)75,538Area (km²)42Pop. density (per km²)2,514.5Census divisionMetro VancouverCensus subdivision(s)Vancouver (part), Musqueam

Vancouver Quadra is a federal electoral district in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada. It has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1949. The constituency bears the name of the Spanish explorer who surveyed the area in 1775, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra.

Within the boundaries of this riding are the University of British Columbia and the western portions of the affluent West Side of Vancouver. Voters within Vancouver Quadra have tended to elect centrist candidates, which is an exception to the province as a whole where politics has tended to be more polarized. Though the Liberals have held the seat since 1984, MPs tend to be on the right wing of the party. For example, the previous MP, Joyce Murray, was a cabinet minister in the centre-right British Columbia Liberal Party, which was unaffiliated with the federal Liberal party.