Vancouver-Point Grey Explained

Vancouver-Point Grey
Province:British Columbia
Prov-Status:active
Prov-Election-First:1933
Prov-Election-Last:2020
Prov-Rep:David Eby
Prov-Rep-Party:NDP
Demo-Census-Date:2001
Demo-Pop:55510
Demo-Area:23.77
Demo-Cd:Greater Vancouver
Demo-Csd:Vancouver, University Endowment Lands

Vancouver-Point Grey is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was first contested in the general election of 1933. It was created out of parts of Richmond-Point Grey, South Vancouver and Vancouver City. The riding began as a three-member seat, and was reduced to a two-member seat in 1966 when Vancouver-Little Mountain was created. In the redistribution preceding the 1991 election, it was reduced to a one-member riding along with the other older urban ridings, as several new one-member ridings were created.

Many prominent politicians have been elected as members, including three British Columbia premiers, Liberals Christy Clark and Gordon Campbell, and New Democrat incumbent premier David Eby. Former prime minister of Canada Kim Campbell also represented this riding.

In 2023, a petition to recall the district's MLA, David Eby, was approved by Elections BC under the Recall and Initiative Act.[1] [2] However, the petition did not attract the required number of signatures. This was the third invocation of the recall procedure in Vancouver-Point Grey since the act was passed in 1994. (The other two unsuccessful attempts, in 1998 and 2003, both targeted Gordon Campbell.)[3] [4]

Geography

The district currently comprises the Vancouver neighbourhoods of West Point Grey and the western part of Kitsilano, as well as the adjacent University Endowment Lands and the Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia.

History

Three-member district

AssemblyYearsSeat 1Seat 2Seat 3
MemberPartyMemberPartyMemberParty
18th1933–1937Stanley McKeenLiberalGeorge Moir WeirLiberalRobert WilkinsonLiberal
19th1937–1941Royal MaitlandConservativeJames Alexander PatonConservative
20th1941–1945Tilly RolstonConservative
21st1945–1946CoalitionCoalitionCoalition
1946–1949Albert Reginald MacDougallLeigh Stevenson
22nd1949–1952
23rd1952–1953Progressive ConservativeSocial CreditGeorge Clark MillerProgressive Conservative
24th1953–1956Thomas Audley BateSocial CreditRobert BonnerArthur LaingLiberal
25th1956–1960Buda BrownSocial Credit
26th1960–1962
1962–1963Pat McGeerLiberal
27th1963–1966Ralph Raymond LoffmarkSocial Credit

Dual-member district

AssemblyYearsSeat 1Seat 2
MemberPartyMemberParty
28th1966–1969Garde Basil GardomLiberalPatrick Lucey McGeerLiberal
29th1969–1972
30th1972–1974Social Credit
1974–1975Social Credit
31st1975–1979
32nd1979–1983
33rd1983–1986
34th1986–1988Kim CampbellDarlene MarzariNew Democratic
1989–1991Tom PerryNew Democratic

Single-member district

AssemblyYearsMemberParty
35th1991–1996Darlene MarzariNew Democratic
36th1996–2001Gordon CampbellLiberal
37th2001–2005
38th2005–2009
39th2009–2011
2011–2013Christy Clark
40th2013–2017David EbyNew Democratic
41st2017–2020
42nd2020–present

Election results

2018 British Columbia electoral reform referendum
SideVotes%
Proportional representation9,57952.89
First Past the Post8,53347.11
Total valid votes18,112100.0
Total rejected ballots810.45
Source: Elections BC[5]

Student vote results

Student Vote Canada is a non-partisan program in Canada that holds mock elections in elementary and high schools alongside general elections (with the same candidates and same electoral system).

Electoral history 1933–1986

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

|-|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|John (Jack) Evans|align="right"|6,382|align="right"|8.40%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Stanley Stewart McKeen|align="right"|9,125|align="right"|12.01%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|William Ralph Offer|align="right"|6,196|align="right"|8.16%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|George Moir Weir|align="right"|9,235|align="right"|12.16%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|Edgar Westmoreland|align="right"|6,011|align="right"|7.91%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Robert Wilkinson|align="right"|8,883|align="right"|11.69%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|75,967!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|472!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|Liberal|Mary Louise Bollert|align="right"|9,470|align="right"|9.95%|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|Albert Dawson Gordon|align="right"|7,603|align="right"|7.99%|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|Helena Rose Gutteridge|align="right"|8,183|align="right"|8.60%|Liberal|Harold Elsdale Molson|align="right"|8,503|align="right"|8.94%|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|William Ewart Turner|align="right"|7,662|align="right"|8.05%|Liberal|George Moir Weir|align="right"|11,073|align="right"|11.64%|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|95,159|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|597|}

|-|Co-operative Commonwealth|John Watkins Dunfield|align="right"|11,980|align="right"|8.14%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth|Margaret Ellen Eckland|align="right"|11,334|align="right"|7.71%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth|George Alfred Isherwood|align="right"|11,820|align="right"|8.04%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|147,085!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|1,559!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

For the elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with three ballots, one for each seat, with three separate candidate-races:

|-|Independent|Ernest Forbes Allistone|align="right"|959|align="right"|0.61%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Reginald Atherton|align="right"|3,324|align="right"|2.13%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Ebbie William Bowering|align="right"|2,878|align="right"|1.85%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Theodore Roosvelt Burnett|align="right"|12,924|align="right"|8.29%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Alexander Whidden Fisher|align="right"|15,599|align="right"|10.00%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|Frederick Norman Hill|align="right"|8,435|align="right"|5.41%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Arthur Laing|align="right"|17,801|align="right"|11.44%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|Winona Grace MacInnis|align="right"|11,365|align="right"|7.29%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|William James Gibbs Pierce|align="right"|7,979|align="right"|5.17%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Emma Loring Tinsman|align="right"|1,822|align="right"|1.69%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|155,953!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|561!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|-|Progressive Conservative|Reginald Atherton|align="right"|6,774|align="right"|3.92%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Francis Cecil Boyes|align="right"|17,438|align="right"|10.09%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Samuel Joseph Dumaresq|align="right"|15,107|align="right"|8.74%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|George Nelson Gibson|align="right"|12,158|align="right"|7.03%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|Clifford Augustine Greer|align="right"|12,702|align="right"|7.35%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Desmond Fife Kidd|align="right"|6,453|align="right"|3.73%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Mary Helen Poaps|align="right"|4,029|align="right"|2.33%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.|Thomas Walter Thomason|align="right"|11,538|align="right"|6.68%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Leslie Charles Way|align="right"|14,827|align="right"|8.58%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|172,832!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|803

|-|Progressive Conservative|Ernest James (Ernie) Broome|align="right"|7,643|align="right"|4.26%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|H. Richardson (Dick) Malkin|align="right"|7,213|align="right"|4.02%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Patrick Lucey McGeer|align="right"|25,592|align="right"|14.26%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Arthur Phillips|align="right"|16,510|align="right"|9.20%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Harry Purdy|align="right"|15,719|align="right"|8.76%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|William George Rathie|align="right"|17,641|align="right"|9.83%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|179,472!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|726!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|-|Liberal|Garde Basil Gardom|align="right"|13,507|align="right"|26.99%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Patrick Lucey McGeer|align="right"|17,400|align="right"|30.28%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|57,472!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|392!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|-|Progressive Conservative|John Anthony St. Etienne DeWolfe|align="right"|1,087|align="right"|1.94%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Garde Basil Gardom|align="right"|13,621|align="right"|24.27%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Patrick Lucey McGeer|align="right"|15,650|align="right"|24.76%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|63,196!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|258!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|-|Liberal|Garde Basil Gardom|align="right"|13,673|align="right"|20.72%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Ian Bruce Kelsey|align="right"|5,103|align="right"|7.73%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Marianne Linnell|align="right"|5,696|align="right"|8.63%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Patrick Lucey McGeer|align="right"|14,599|align="right"|22.13%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|65,975!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|387!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|-|Progressive Conservative|Richard Neill MacLeod Brown|align="right"|1,340|align="right"|1.86%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Theodore Bolton Burgoyne|align="right"|1,032|align="right"|1.44%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Independent|George Henry Does|align="right"|98|align="right"|0.14%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Richard John Joseph Durante|align="right"|5,004|align="right"|6.96%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Moyra Anne Roberts|align="right"|4,383|align="right"|6.10%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|71,885!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|554!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|-|Progressive Conservative|William Fairley|align="right"|2,511|align="right"|3.17%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Elizabeth L. Green|align="right"|2,437|align="right"|3.08%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Timothy Charles O'Brien|align="right"|1,399|align="right"|1.77%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Christopher Keith Sumner|align="right"|1,131|align="right"|1.43%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|79,151!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|1,274!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|-|Liberal|Leopold Auer|align="right"|1,675|align="right"|1.98%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|Lorne Neil MacLean|align="right"|1,573|align="right"|1.86%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Progressive Conservative|William Fairley|align="right"|2,511|align="right"|3.17%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|Liberal|Allan Edward Warnke|align="right"|2,048|align="right"|2.41%|align="right"||align="right"|unknown|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|84,826!align="right"|100.00%!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|480!align="right"|!align="right"||- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout!align="right"|%!align="right"|!align="right"||}

|Liberal|Doreen Braverman|align="right"|6,680|align="right"|7.88%|Liberal|Thomas Airlie Brown|align="right"|5,505|align="right"|6.49%|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes!align="right"|84,815|- bgcolor="white"!align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots!align="right"|682|}

In 1988, Kim Campbell resigned as the MLA to run in the federal election. Tom Perry (NDP) won the seat in the 1989 by-election, finishing the term with Marzari as his seatmate.[6] A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by the abandonment of the century-old multiple member districts. Vancouver-Point Grey was trimmed with parts of going to the creation of Vancouver-Quilchena, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Burrard (mostly to Quilchena). In the 1991 election, Perry changed ridings and was elected in Vancouver-Little Mountain.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Daphne Bramham . February 9, 2023 . Vancouver Sun . Daphne Bramham: Who's mad enough to try to recall David Eby? .
  2. Web site: Petition seeking to recall 'dictator' B.C. Premier David Eby fails . Global News . Simon . Little . March 21, 2023.
  3. Web site: Business in Vancouver . Bob . Mackin . Recall David Eby campaign falls far short of goal . March 21, 2023 . April 13, 2023.
  4. Web site: 2023 Vancouver-Point Grey Recall Petition. April 13, 2023 . Elections BC .
  5. Web site: Report of the Chief Electoral Officer – 2018 Referendum on Electoral Reform . October 23, 2020 . Elections BC.
  6. Web site: B.C. Votes - Vancouver-Point Grey . https://web.archive.org/web/20090427184937/http://www.cbc.ca/canada/bcvotes2009/ridings/077/. April 27, 2009 . CBC.ca.