Vancouver East was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1933. It and the other new Vancouver ridings in this year, Vancouver-Burrard, Vancouver-Point Grey and Vancouver Centre, were all created from the old Vancouver City riding, which was a six-member seat. Vancouver East was a two-member seat.
For a full listing of Vancouver ridings, historical and current, please see Vancouver (electoral districts).
| Population, 2001 | 55,510 | |
| Population Change, 1931–2001 | 8.2% | |
| Area (km2) | 23.77 | |
| Pop. Density | 2,335 |
| Assembly | Years | Seat 1 | Seat 2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member | Party | Member | Party | |||||
| 18th | 1933–1935 | John Price | CCF | Harold Edward Winch | CCF | |||
| 19th | 1937–1941 | James Lyle Telford | ||||||
| 20th | 1941–1945 | Arthur James Turner | ||||||
| 21st | 1945–1949 | |||||||
| 22nd | 1949–1952 | |||||||
| 23rd | 1952–1953 | |||||||
| 24th | 1953–1956 | Arnold Alexander Webster | ||||||
| 25th | 1956–1960 | Frederick Morton Sharp | Social Credit | |||||
| 26th | 1960–1961 | Alexander Barrett MacDonald | CCF | |||||
| 1961–1963 | NDP | NDP | ||||||
| 27th | 1963–1966 | |||||||
| 28th | 1966–1969 | Robert Arthur Williams | ||||||
| 29th | 1969–1972 | |||||||
| 30th | 1972–1975 | |||||||
| 31st | 1975–1976 | |||||||
| 1976–1979 | Dave Barrett | |||||||
| 32nd | 1979–1983 | |||||||
| 33rd | 1983–1984 | |||||||
| 1984–1986 | Robert Arthur Williams | |||||||
| 34th | 1986–1991 | Glen Clark | ||||||
| Riding dissolved into Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Hastings, Vancouver-Kingsway and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant | ||||||||
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
For the elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with two ballots, one for each seat, with two separate candidate-races:
A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by the abandonment of the century-old tradition of multiple member districts. Vancouver East was abolished. Its principal successor ridings were Vancouver-Kensington, Vancouver-Hastings and Vancouver-Kingsway. Portions of Vancouver-Mount Pleasant and Vancouver-Burrard, formerly part of Vancouver Centre may also have been added.