Vancouver-Kingsway (provincial electoral district)

Vancouver-Kingsway is a provincial

Provinces and territories of Canada

The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...

electoral district

Electoral district

An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...

for the Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....

of British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Demographics

Population	54,379
Population Change, 1996–2001	3.6%
Area (km²)	9.02
Pop. Density (People per km²)	6,029

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA

Member of the Legislative Assembly

A Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....

is Adrian Dix

Adrian Dix

Adrian Dix is a Canadian politician, currently serving as MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia and as leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election.-Aide to Glen Clark:...

. He was first elected in 2005. He represents the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Election results

British Columbia sales tax referendum, 2011 British Columbia sales tax referendum, 2011 A postal referendum on sales tax was held in British Columbia from June 13 to August 5, 2011, though Canada Post workers were locked out until June 27. Voters were asked whether the Harmonized Sales Tax should be retained or split back to the original Provincial Sales Tax and Goods & Services Tax...
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	13,701	72.45%
	No	5,211	27.55%

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|New Democrat

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...

|Adrian Dix

Adrian Dix

British Columbia Liberal Party

The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...

Green Party of British Columbia

The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...

British Columbia Refederation Party

The B.C. Refederation Party is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada advocating direct democracy and reform to Canadian federalism...

People's Front (British Columbia)

The People's Front is the British Columbia, Canada wing of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.In the 2001 British Columbia election, it nominated 11 candidates, received a total of 720 votes...

|Charles Boylan

Charles Boylan

Charles Boylan is a Canadian radio broadcaster and political activist. He produces and hosts Wake up with co-op and Discussion, programs on CFRO 102.7; a community-run, co-operatively-owned, non-corporate radio station broadcasting from Vancouver, British Columbia...

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British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2009 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2009 A second referendum on electoral reform was held in conjunction with the provincial election on May 12, 2009. The BC-single transferrable vote electoral system was again voted on by the BC electorate. It would have required 60 per cent overall approval and 50 per cent approval in at least 60 per...
Side		Votes	%
	FPTP	9,309	59.98%
	BC-STV BC-STV BC-STV is a proposed voting system recommended by the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform for use in British Columbia, and belongs to the Single Transferable Vote family of voting systems. BC-STV was supported by a majority of the voters in a referendum held in 2005 but the government had...	6,211	40.02%

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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Liberal Party

|Rob Nijjar

Rob Nijjar

Rob Nijjar is a Canadian Liberal politician. He has lived all his life on Vancouver's East side. He attended school in southeast Vancouver and Langara College before attending Simon Fraser University, where he earned a Bachelors Degree in General Studies in 1992. After graduation and before...

Green Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Marijuana Party

The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....

Sex Party (British Columbia)

The Sex Party is a political party based in British Columbia, Canada, that contests provincial elections to promote libertarian and sex-positive attitudes towards sexual education, pornography, indecency laws, and prostitution. It describes itself as "the world's first registered political party...

|Yvonne Maylynne Tink
|align="right"|73
|align="right"|0.37%
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British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005 British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005 A referendum was held in the Canadian province of British Columbia on May 17, 2005 to determine whether or not to adopt the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform...
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	9,974	53.87%
	No	8,541	46.13%

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|BC Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

|Rob Nijjar

Rob Nijjar

|align="right"|8,264
|align="right"|49.89%
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|align="right"|$41,856
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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

Green Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Marijuana Party

The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....

Council of British Columbians

The Council of British Columbians was a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada. It nominated two candidates in the 2001 British Columbia election:...

|Tyler Ducharme
|align="right"|159
|align="right"|0.96%
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|align="right"|$3,268

|People's Front
|Donna Petersen
|align="right"|81
|align="right"|0.49%
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|align="right"|$767
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!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|16,563
!align="right"|100.00%
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!align="right"|188
!align="right"|1.14%
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!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|16,751
!align="right"|67.14%
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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|Glen Clark

Glen Clark

Glen David Clark is a politician in British Columbia, Canada who served as the 31st Premier of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.-Early life and education:...

British Columbia Liberal Party

|Francis Ho
|align="right"|6,997
|align="right"|36.87%
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|align="right"|$43,041
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|PDA

Progressive Democratic Alliance

The Progressive Democratic Alliance was a centrist political party in British Columbia, Canada founded by Gordon Wilson, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Powell River—Sunshine Coast....

Reform Party of British Columbia

The Reform Party of British Columbia is a populist right wing political party in British Columbia, Canada. Although its name is similar to the defunct Reform Party of Canada, the provincial party was founded before the federal party was and it did not have any formal association with...

Green Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Libertarian Party

The British Columbia Libertarian Party is a libertarian political party in British Columbia, Canada.It first nominated candidates in the 1986 provincial election...

British Columbia Social Credit Party

The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...

Natural Law Party of Canada

The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practiced Transcendental Meditation....

|Steven R. Beck
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|align="right"|0.34%
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|align="right"|$136
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!align="right"|18,978
!align="right"|100.00%
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!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|257
!align="right"|1.34%
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!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|19,235
!align="right"|71.07%
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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|Glen Clark

Glen Clark

Glen David Clark is a politician in British Columbia, Canada who served as the 31st Premier of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.-Early life and education:...

British Columbia Liberal Party

British Columbia Social Credit Party

Green Party of British Columbia

Communist League (Canada)

The Communist League in Canada was founded as the "Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire" in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action , the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.Originally a Trotskyist party, the RWL was...

|Ned W. Dmytryshyn
|align="right"|29
|align="right"|0.17%
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|align="right"|$247
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|16,960
!align="right"|100.00%
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!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|599
!align="right"|3.41%
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!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|17,559
!align="right"|70.85%
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1991 Recall Referendum

British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991 British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991 The British Columbia Recall and Initiative Referendum was a referendum held in British Columbia on October 17, 1991. It was concurrent with that year's general election. The referendum posed two questions. They were on whether elected officials should be able to be recalled and whether voters...
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	13,033	86.16%
	No	2,093	13.84%

1991 Initiative Referendum

British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991 British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991 The British Columbia Recall and Initiative Referendum was a referendum held in British Columbia on October 17, 1991. It was concurrent with that year's general election. The referendum posed two questions. They were on whether elected officials should be able to be recalled and whether voters...
Side		Votes	%
	Yes	12,688	87.26%
	No	1,852	12.74%

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