Vancouver Centre

Vancouver Centre (French: Vancouver-Centre) is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1917.

Geography

The riding includes the neighbourhoods of Yaletown, the West End, Coal Harbour, Downtown Vancouver, western Strathcona and eastern Kitsilano. The riding has a diverse, multi-generational demographic. Retirees, young people and families as well as middle-aged working professional share its sidewalks, cafes, restaurants and community centres amid a backdrop of gorgeous mountain and ocean views.

History

The electoral district was created in 1914 from parts of Vancouver City riding.

Its most high-profile Member of Parliament has been Kim Campbell, who was Prime Minister in 1993.

The 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution concluded that the electoral boundaries of Vancouver Centre should be adjusted, and a modified electoral district of the same name will be contested in future elections.^[2] The redefined Vancouver Centre loses a portion of its current territory from its southern end to the new district of Vancouver Granville. These new boundaries were legally defined in the 2013 representation order, which came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.^[3]

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Vancouver Centre Riding created from Vancouver City
13th	1917–1921	Henry Herbert Stevens	Government (Unionist)
14th	1921–1925		Conservative
15th	1925–1926
16th	1926–1930
17th	1930–1935	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	Liberal
18th	1935–1940
19th	1940–1945
20th	1945–1948
20th	1948–1949	Rodney Young	Co-operative Commonwealth
21st	1949–1953	Ralph Campney	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957	Ralph Campney	Liberal
23rd	1957–1958	Douglas Jung	Progressive Conservative
24th	1958–1962	Douglas Jung	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	John Robert Nicholson	Liberal
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972	Ron Basford
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
31st	1979–1980	Art Phillips
32nd	1980–1984	Pat Carney	Progressive Conservative
33rd	1984–1988	Pat Carney
34th	1988–1993	Kim Campbell
35th	1993–1997	Hedy Fry	Liberal
36th	1997–2000
37th	2000–2004
38th	2004–2006
39th	2006–2008
40th	2008–2011
41st	2011–2015
42nd	2015–Present

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is Hedy Fry, a former physician. She was first elected in 1993. She is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Election results

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	32,554	56.08	+25.06	–
	New Democratic	Constance Barnes	11,618	20.01	-6.34	–
	Conservative	Elaine Allan	9,818	16.91	-9.14	–
	Green	Lisa Barrett	3,370	5.81	-9.27	–
	Libertarian	John Clarke	614	1.06	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Michael Hill	74	0.13	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			58,048	100.00		$222,294.77
Total rejected ballots			247	0.42	–
Turnout			58,295	67.27	–
Eligible voters			86,663
	Liberal hold		Swing		+15.70
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[6]
Party		Vote	%
	Liberal	12,894	31.02
	New Democratic	10,952	26.35
	Conservative	10,828	26.05
	Green	6,267	15.08
	Others	622	1.50

Canadian federal election, 2011
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	18,260	31.03	-3.47
	New Democratic	Karen Shillington	15,325	26.04	+4.73
	Conservative	Jennifer Clarke	15,323	26.04	+0.95
	Green	Adriane Carr	9,089	15.44	-2.87
	Libertarian	John Clarke	313	0.53	-0.07
	Progressive Canadian	Michael Huenefeld	285	0.48	–
	Pirate	Travis McCrea	192	0.33	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Michael Hill	62	0.11	-0.05
Total valid votes			58,849	100.0
Total rejected ballots			134	0.23
Turnout			58,983	59.23
Eligible voters			99,527
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.10

Canadian federal election, 2008
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	19,506	34.50	-9.37	$80,974
	Conservative	Lorne Mayencourt	14,188	25.09	+4.73	$91,239
	New Democratic	Michael Byers	12,047	21.31	-7.34	$85,957
	Green	Adriane Carr	10,354	18.31	+12.43	$82,713
	Libertarian	John Clarke	340	0.60	+0.07	$0
	Marxist–Leninist	Michael Hill	94	0.16
Total valid votes/Expense limit			56,529	100.0		$94,404
	Liberal hold		Swing		-7.05

Canadian federal election, 2006
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	25,013	43.80	+3.50	$77,826
	New Democratic	Svend Robinson	16,374	28.67	-3.62	$84,170
	Conservative	Tony Fogarassy	11,684	20.46	+1.26	$86,591
	Green	Jared Evans	3,340	5.84	-0.94	$1,008
	Libertarian	John Clarke	304	0.53	-0.04
	Marijuana	HeathCliff Dion Campbell	259	0.45	–	$115
	Christian Heritage	Joe Pal	130	0.22	-0.24	$389
Total valid votes			57,104	100.0
Total rejected ballots			163	0.28	-0.15
Turnout			57,267	62.06	+0.59
	Liberal hold		Swing		+3.56

Canadian federal election, 2004
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	21,280	40.30	-2.00	$66,619
	New Democratic	Kennedy Stewart	17,050	32.29	+20.25	$57,675
	Conservative	Gary Mitchell	10,139	19.20	-18.70	$73,789
	Green	Robbie Mattu	3,580	6.78	+2.85	$2,440
	Libertarian	John Clarke	304	0.57	–	$60
	Christian Heritage	Joe Pal	243	0.46	–	$389
	Canadian Action	Alexander Frei	101	0.19	-1.08	$100
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	96	0.18	+0.01	$389
Total valid votes			52,793	100.0
Total rejected ballots			226	0.43	-0.05
Turnout			53,019	61.47	0.97
	Liberal hold		Swing		-11.12
Change for the Conservatives is based on the combined totals of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives.

Canadian federal election, 2000
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	24,553	42.30	+1.54	$69,017
	Alliance	John Mortimer	15,176	26.14	+3.56	$68,158
	New Democratic	Scott Robertson	6,993	12.04	-8.83	$8,841
	Progressive Conservative	Lee Johnson	6,828	11.76	+2.52	$4,047
	Green	Jamie Lee Hamilton	2,285	3.93	+0.93	$3,945
	Marijuana	Marc Emery	1,116	1.92	–
	Canadian Action	Jeff Jewell	742	1.27	+0.24	$547
	Natural Law	Valerie Laporte	177	0.30	-0.12	$40
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	99	0.17	–	$189
	Marxist–Leninist	Joseph Theriault	75	0.12	-0.10	$364
Total valid votes			58,044	100.0
Total rejected ballots			280	0.48	-0.05
Turnout			58,324	60.50	-4.22
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.01
Change for the Canadian Alliance is based on the Reform Party.

Canadian federal election, 1997
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	20,878	40.76	+9.57	$54,905
	Reform	Richard Farbridge	11,567	22.58	+5.12	$24,846
	New Democratic	Bill Siksay	10,690	20.87	+5.69	$27,133
	Progressive Conservative	Victoria Minnes	4,736	9.24	-15.81	$43,121
	Green	Paul Alexander	1,541	3.00	+2.05	$2,154
	Independent	Joseph Roberts	728	1.42	–	$6,163
	Canadian Action	Connie Fogal	528	1.03	–	$12,986
	Natural Law	John Cowhig	217	0.42	-0.62
	Independent	John Clarke	125	0.24	–	$2,687
	Marxist–Leninist	Joseph Theriault	116	0.22	–	$559
	Independent	Elvis Flostrand	92	0.17	–	$699
Total valid votes			51,218	100.0
Total rejected ballots			272	0.53
Turnout			51,490	64.72
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.22

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Hedy Fry	19,310	31.19	+8.38
	Progressive Conservative	Kim Campbell	15,510	25.05	-12.19
	Reform	Ian Isbister	10,808	17.46	+16.08
	New Democratic	Betty Baxter	9,397	15.18	-21.63
	National	Thorsten Ewald	4,949	7.99	–
	Natural Law	John Cowhig	643	1.04	–
	Green	Imtiaz Popat	586	0.95	+0.14
	Christian Heritage	Darren Lowe	242	0.39	–
	Libertarian	Tunya Audain	220	0.36	+0.11
	Independent	Brian Godzilla Gnu Salmi	114	0.18	–
	Independent	Scott Adams	83	0.13	-0.07
	Commonwealth of Canada	Lucille Boikoff	25	0.04	–
	Independent	Peter C. Nuthall	24	0.04	–
Total valid votes			61,911	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+10.28

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Kim Campbell	23,620	37.24	-5.99
	New Democratic	Johanna den Hertog	23,351	36.81	+4.38
	Liberal	Tex Enemark	14,467	22.81	+1.59
	Reform	Paula Folkard	876	1.38	–
	Green	Murray Gudmundson	514	0.81	-0.25
	Rhinoceros	Bob Nitestalker Colebrook	262	0.41	-0.56
	Libertarian	Duane H. Pye	156	0.25	-0.38
	Independent	Scott Adams	125	0.20	–
	Independent	Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell	58	0.09	–
Total valid votes			63,429	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-5.18

Canadian federal election, 1984
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Carney	21,704	43.23	+7.96
	New Democratic	Johanna den Hertog	16,283	32.43	+0.66
	Liberal	Paul E. Manning	10,654	21.22	-10.20
	Green	Paul Watson	533	1.06	+0.95
	Rhinoceros	Danny Tripper Parro	487	0.97	+0.25
	Libertarian	Paul A. Geddes	316	0.63	–
	Communist	Maurice Rush	135	0.27	-0.16
	Confederation of Regions	Poldi Meindl	98	0.20	–
Total valid votes			50,210	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+3.65

Canadian federal election, 1980
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Carney	16,462	35.27	+0.84
	New Democratic	Ron Johnson	14,830	31.77	+1.80
	Liberal	Art Phillips	14,667	31.42	-3.22
	Rhinoceros	David J. Longworth	337	0.72	–
	Communist	Jack Phillips	200	0.43	+0.18
	Independent	John Elliot	101	0.22	-0.38
	Independent	Paul Watson	54	0.12	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Greg Corcoran	24	0.05	-0.06
Total valid votes			46,675	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		-0.48

Canadian federal election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Art Phillips	15,430	34.64	-7.09
	Progressive Conservative	Pat Carney	15,335	34.43	-3.10
	New Democratic	Ron Johnson	13,350	29.97	+10.58
	Independent	John Elliot	267	0.60	–
	Communist	Bert Ogden	111	0.25	-0.22
	Marxist–Leninist	Greg Corcoran	48	0.11	-0.20
Total valid votes			44,541	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-2.00

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ron Basford	19,064	41.74	+0.39
	Progressive Conservative	Doug Davis	17,143	37.53	+7.27
	New Democratic	Ron Johnson	8,859	19.39	-7.26
	Social Credit	Walter Muller	257	0.56	-0.79
	Communist	Betty Greenwell	213	0.47	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Charles Shrybman	141	0.31	–
Total valid votes			45,677	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-3.44

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ron Basford	19,341	41.35	-14.75
	Progressive Conservative	John McDonald	14,156	30.26	+11.89
	New Democratic	Ron K. Johnson	12,470	26.66	+2.05
	Social Credit	Nicholas Zambus	632	1.35	–
	Independent	Arnold August	77	0.16	–
	Independent	Ray Dodge	55	0.12	–
	Independent	Daniel Ivan Fedoruk	46	0.10	–
Total valid votes			46,777	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-13.32

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ron Basford	25,426	56.10	+16.02
	New Democratic	William Deverell	11,151	24.60	+1.54
	Progressive Conservative	David W. Kilgour	8,326	18.37	-9.43
	Republican	Gerard Guejon^[7]	420	0.93	–
Total valid votes			45,323	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+7.24

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Jack R. Nicholson	9,008	40.08	+0.75
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Jung	6,248	27.80	-2.73
	New Democratic	Lyle Stuart Kristiansen	5,184	23.07	-1.13
	Social Credit	William John McIntyre	1,806	8.04	+2.10
	Independent Social Credit	James B. Wisbey	228	1.01	–
Total valid votes			22,474	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+1.74

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Jack R. Nicholson	9,472	39.33	+3.73
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Jung	7,353	30.53	-0.94
	New Democratic	Margaret Erickson	5,826	24.19	+0.54
	Social Credit	Bevis Walters	1,430	5.94	-2.29
Total valid votes			24,081	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.34

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Jack R. Nicholson	7,697	35.61	+18.43
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Jung	6,803	31.47	-29.95
	New Democratic	Margaret Erickson	5,113	23.65	+9.73
	Social Credit	F. George J. Hahn	1,779	8.23	+3.60
	Independent	Burton V. White	224	1.04	–
Total valid votes			21,616	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+24.19
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Jung	14,044	61.43	+19.92
	Liberal	Lyon Ward	3,927	17.18	-7.29
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Alan Judge	3,183	13.92	+3.80
	Social Credit	Cyril White	1,059	4.63	-16.87
	Labor–Progressive	Maurice Rush	650	2.84	+0.43
Total valid votes			22,863	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+13.60

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Progressive Conservative	Douglas Jung	9,087	41.50	+32.86
	Liberal	Ralph Campney	5,357	24.47	-16.37
	Social Credit	Cyril White	4,707	21.50	-2.96
	Co-operative Commonwealth	William James Dennison	2,216	10.12	-12.21
	Labor–Progressive	Maurice Rush	528	2.41	-1.33
Total valid votes			21,895	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+24.62

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ralph Campney	8,259	40.83	-1.73
	Social Credit	Leslie R. Peterson	4,946	24.45	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rodney Young	4,516	22.33	-4.05
	Progressive Conservative	Wendell Willard Wright	1,749	8.65	-16.02
	Labor–Progressive	Ernest Lawrie	756	3.74	-0.20
Total valid votes			20,226	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-13.09

Canadian federal election, 1949
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ralph Campney	10,299	42.56	+8.90
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rodney Young	6,382	26.37	-17.22
	Progressive Conservative	Henry Herbert Stevens	5,970	24.67	+1.93
	Labor–Progressive	Maurice Rush	952	3.93	–
	Independent	Harold Meade Young	595	2.46	–
Total valid votes			24,198	100.0
	Liberal gain from Co-operative Commonwealth		Swing		+13.06

Canadian federal by-election, 8 June 1948 On Ian Mackenzie being called to the Senate, 19 January 1948
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Rodney Young	9,518	43.60	+16.27
	Liberal	Ralph Campney	7,348	33.66	+3.90
	Progressive Conservative	Hilliard Lyle Jestley	4,965	22.74	-3.73
Total valid votes			21,831	100.0
	Co-operative Commonwealth gain from Liberal		Swing		+6.18

Canadian federal election, 1945
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	9,959	29.76	-9.39
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Alfred Isherwood	9,145	27.33	+0.06
	Progressive Conservative	Ernest Garfield Sherwood	8,859	26.47	-3.75
	Labor–Progressive	James Swanson Thompson	3,750	11.21	–
	Social Credit	Erich Charles Martin	1,042	3.11	–
	Democratic	William Richard Nathaniel Smith	393	1.17	–
	Socialist Labour	Robert Gordon McQuillan	319	0.95	–
Total valid votes			33,467	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.72

Canadian federal election, 1940
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	12,100	39.15	+5.10
	National Government	Ernest Garfield Sherwood	9,338	30.22	+7.16
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Wallis Walter Lefeaux	8,427	27.27	-6.18
	Independent	Paul McDowell Kerr	630	2.04	–
	Nationalist	Norman Lee Glozier	408	1.32	–
Total valid votes			30,903	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-1.03

Canadian federal election, 1935
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	7,658	34.05	-20.57
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Wallis Walter Lefeaux	7,522	33.45	–
	Conservative	Ernest Garfield Sherwood	5,187	23.06	-22.32
	Reconstruction	Lilette Julia Caroline Mahon	1,872	8.32	–
	Socialist	John David Taylor	251	1.12	–
Total valid votes			22,490	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-27.01

Canadian federal election, 1930
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Liberal	Ian Alistair Mackenzie	12,064	54.62	+10.78
	Conservative	Henry Herbert Stevens	10,023	45.38	-8.06
Total valid votes			22,087	100.0
	Liberal gain from Conservative		Swing		+9.42

Canadian federal election, 1926
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Henry Herbert Stevens	10,326	53.44	+4.96
	Liberal	Dugald Donaghy	8,471	43.84	+1.42
	Labour	Eugene Thorton Kingsley	527	2.73	-6.38
Total valid votes			19,324	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		+1.77

Canadian federal election, 1925
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Henry Herbert Stevens	9,458	48.47	-10.03
	Liberal	Gerald Grattan McGeer	8,277	42.42	+11.54
	Labour	Wallis Walter Lefeaux	1,777	9.11	–
Total valid votes			19,512	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-10.78

Canadian federal election, 1921
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Conservative	Henry Herbert Stevens	10,493	58.50	-9.24
	Liberal	Robert Henry Gale	5,538	30.88	+3.51
	Independent	Thomas O'Connor	1,866	10.40	–
	Progressive	Cadwallader Flagg Batson	39	0.22	–
Total valid votes			17,936	100.0
	Conservative hold		Swing		-6.38

Canadian federal election, 1917
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Government (Unionist)	Henry Herbert Stevens	13,722	67.74
	Opposition (Laurier Liberals)	William Wallace Burns McInnes	5,543	27.36
	Labour	William Arthur Pritchard	992	4.90
Total valid votes			20,257	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Vancouver City, where Conservative Henry Herbert Stevens was the incumbent.

References

"(Code 59029) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-06.

1 2 Statistics Canada: 2012
↑ Final Report – British Columbia
↑ Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
↑ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for Vancouver Centre, 30 September 2015
↑ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
↑ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections
↑ Vancouver Sun, June 26, 1968, "Republicans Claim Win", p. 15

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