Vancouver-Mount Pleasant

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Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was one of only two electoral districts to return an NDP 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, the other seat to return a New Democrat. Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is therefore considered the safest New Democrat seat in all of British Columbia.

Contents 1 Demographics 2 Member of Legislative Assembly 3 Election results 4 External links

[edit] Demographics

Population, 2001	53,986
Population Change, 1996-2001	3.9%
Area (km²)	9.64
Pop. Density (People per km²)	5,600

[edit] Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Jenny Kwan, a former Vancouver City Councillor. She was first elected to the legislature in 1996. She represents the New Democratic Party of British Columbia. Kwan became the first Chinese-Canadian cabinet minister in B.C. history when she was appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs in February 1998. She has also been Minister of Women's Equality and Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers.

[edit] Election results

B.C. General Election 2005: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NDP	Jenny Kwan	12,974	64.24%
	BC Liberal	Juliet Andalis	4,298	21.28%
	Green	Raven Bowen	2,066	10.23%
	Marijuana	Christopher Patrick Bennett	308	1.53%
	Independent	Mike Hansen	205	1.02%
	Work Less	Niki Westman	187	0.93%
	Communist	Peter Marcus	98	0.49%
	DRBC	Imtiaz Popat	43	0.21%
	Platinum	Kirk Anton Moses	17	0.08%
Total			20,196	100.00%

B.C. General Election 2001: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Jenny Kwan	7,163	44.48%		$60,582
	BC Liberal	Gail Yvonne Sparrow	5,343	33.18%		$56,796
	Green	Dale Hofmann	2,612	16.22%		$3,276
	Marijuana	David Malmo-Levine	489	3.03%		$721
	Unity	Ken Wright	166	1.03%		$185
	No Affiliation	Liar Liar	148	0.92%
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	142	0.88%		$332
	Party of Citizens	Franklin Wayne Poley	42	0.26%		$331
Total Valid Votes			16,105	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			208	1.29%
Turnout			16,313	59.36%

B.C. General Election 1996: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Jenny Kwan	11,155	64.05%		$41,905
	BC Liberal	Anne Beer	4,243	24.36%		$32,735
	Green	Paul Alexander	759	4.36%		$100
	PDA	John Spark	584	3.35%		$100
	BC Reform	Wayne Marsden	354	2.03%
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	121	0.69%		$319
	Natural Law	John S.W. Kent	114	0.65%		$120
	Social Credit	Agnes Kokko	86	0.49%		$526
Total Valid Votes			17,416	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			284	1.60%
Turnout			17,700	60.50%

B.C. General Election 1991: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Mike Harcourt	10,108	63.3%		$105,044
	BC Liberal	Todd Gnissios	3,137	19.65%		$3,341
	Social Credit	Randy Vannatter	2,143	13.43%		$11,663
	Green	Grant Watson	432	2.71%		$579
	Libertarian	John Wayne Marsden	80	0.50%
	Interdependence	Jacek (Jack) Latek	62	0.39%
Total Valid Votes			15,962	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			600	3.62%
Turnout			16,562	64.03%

[edit] External links

• BC Stats
• 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

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