| Province: | British Columbia |
| Fed-Status: | active |
| Fed-District-Number: | 59026 |
| Fed-Created: | 2013 |
| Fed-Election-First: | 2015 |
| Fed-Election-Last: | 2021 |
| Fed-Rep: | Randall Garrison |
| Fed-Rep-Party: | NDP |
| Demo-Pop-Ref: | [1] |
| Demo-Area-Ref: | [2] |
| Demo-Census-Date: | 2011 |
| Demo-Pop: | 113004 |
| Demo-Electors: | 99,285 |
| Demo-Electors-Date: | 2019 |
| Demo-Area: | 404 |
| Demo-Cd: | Capital |
| Demo-Csd: | Belcher Bay 1, Capital H, Colwood, Esquimalt (district municipality), Esquimalt (Indian reserve), Metchosin, New Songhees 1A, Saanich, Sooke, T'Sou-ke, View Royal |
Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke is a federal electoral district in Greater Victoria, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
It was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution, came into effect in 2013, and first contested in the general election on Monday October 19th, 2015. Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke encompasses portions of the south Island previously included in the electoral districts of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca and Saanich—Gulf Islands. The riding contains the Township of Esquimalt, the City of Colwood, the District of Metchosin, View Royal, Sooke, as well as the North Quadra, Swan Lake and Cloverdale neighbourhoods in Saanich East and all of Saanich West. The population of the district was 113,004 in 2011.
The district was originally planned to be named "Saanich—Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca".[3]
| 2021[4] | 2016[5] | 2011[6] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| European | 99,360 | 96,370 | 95,230 | ||||||||||||
| Indigenous | 7,255 | 6,655 | 5,270 | ||||||||||||
| East Asian | 5,645 | 4,820 | 3,440 | ||||||||||||
| South Asian | 4,640 | 3,665 | 2,890 | ||||||||||||
| Southeast Asian | 4,365 | 3,340 | 2,375 | ||||||||||||
| African | 1,735 | 1,300 | 1,110 | ||||||||||||
| Latin American | 1,160 | 785 | 595 | ||||||||||||
| Middle Eastern | 970 | 590 | 210 | ||||||||||||
| Other | 1,035 | 615 | 395 | ||||||||||||
| Total responses | 126,165 | 118,150 | 111,510 | ||||||||||||
| Total population | 128,644 | 120,834 | 112,969 | ||||||||||||
According to the 2016 Canadian census[7] [8] [9]
Languages: 86.2% English, 2.4% French, 1.5% Punjabi, 1.1% German, 1.0% Cantonese, 1.0% Tagalog
Religions (2011): 43.0% Christian (13.7% Catholic, 7.9% Anglican, 5.6% United Church, 2.6% Baptist, 1.3% Lutheran, 1.3% Pentecostal, 1.2% Presbyterian, 9.4% Other), 1.4% Sikh, 52.6% No religion
Median income (2015): $37,275
Average income (2015): $45,081
This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:
| 2021 federal election redistributed results[10] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 26,306 | 43.23 | ||||
| 13,314 | 21.88 | ||||
| 12,759 | 20.97 | ||||
| 5,410 | 8.89 | ||||
| 2,828 | 4.65 | ||||
| Others | 234 | 0.38 | |||
| 2011 federal election redistributed results[11] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Vote | % | |||
| 22,324 | 39.40 | ||||
| 21,305 | 37.61 | ||||
| 7,287 | 12.86 | ||||
| 5,496 | 9.70 | ||||
| Others | 242 | 0.43 | |||