Vancouver-Mount Pleasant

Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was one of only two electoral districts to return an NDP MLA in the 2001 election when the NDP was nearly wiped off the electoral map, and it did so by a much wider margin than Vancouver-Hastings, the other seat to return a New Democrat.

The NDP routinely wins by over 40 points in this riding. Even during the 2001 landslide victory for the BC Liberals, the NDP won this riding by over 10 points, despite a massive province-wide turn away from the party. Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is therefore considered one of the safest NDP seats in all of British Columbia.

Demographics

Population, 2001	53,986
Population Change, 1996–2001	3.9%
Area (km²)	9.64
Pop. Density (People per km²)	5,600

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Jenny Kwan, a former Vancouver City Councillor. She was first elected to the legislature in 1996. She represents the British Columbia New Democratic Party. Kwan became the first Chinese-Canadian cabinet minister in B.C. history when she was appointed Minister of Municipal Affairs in February 1998. She has also been Minister of Women's Equality and Minister of Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers. She announced her intention to resign on March 22, 2015, in order to run federally.

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Created from Vancouver Centre and Vancouver East
35th	1991–1996		Mike Harcourt	NDP
36th	1996–2001		Jenny Wai Ching Kwan	NDP
37th	2001–2005
38th	2005–2009
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2015

Election results

By-election TBA: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Melanie Mark
	Liberal	Gavin Dew
	Green	Pete Fry
Total valid votes				100.00

B.C. General Election 2013: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	13,845	65.83	+1.88
	Liberal	Celyna Sia Sherst	3,942	18.74	-2.06
	Green	Barinder Hans	2,506	11.92	-2.36
	Marijuana	William Austin	349	1.66
	Independent	Jeremy Gustafson	260	1.24
	Communist	Peter Marcus	129	0.61	-0.36
Total valid votes			21,031	100.00
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+1.97

British Columbia general election, 2009
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	11,232	63.95	−0.29	$79,796
	Liberal	Sherry Darlene Wiebe	3,654	20.80	−0.48	$41,506
	Green	John T. Boychuck	2,507	14.28	+4.05	$7,013
	Communist	Peter Marcus	171	0.97	+0.48	$1,565
Total Valid Votes			17,564	100
Total Rejected Ballots			218	1.23
Turnout			17,782	46.47

British Columbia general election, 2005
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	12,974	64.24	$98,030
	Liberal	Juliet Andalis	4,298	21.28	$34,819
	Green	Raven Bowen	2,066	10.23	$1,882
	Marijuana	Christopher Patrick Bennett	308	1.53	$100
	Independent	Mike Hansen	205	1.02	$406
	Work Less	Niki Westman	187	0.93	$100
	Communist	Peter Marcus	98	0.49	$2,928
	Democratic Reform	Imtiaz Popat	43	0.21	$100
	Platinum	Kirk Anton Moses	17	0.08	$130
Total Valid Votes			20,196	100
Total Rejected Ballots			312	1.54
Turnout			20,508	49.93

B.C. General Election 2001: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jenny Kwan	7,163	44.48%		$60,582
	Liberal	Gail Yvonne Sparrow	5,343	33.18%		$56,796
	Green	Dale Hofmann	2,612	16.22%	–	$3,276
	Marijuana	David Malmo-Levine	489	3.03%		$721
	Unity	Ken Wright	166	1.03%		$185
	No Affiliation	Liar Liar	148	0.92%
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	142	0.88%		$332
	Party of Citizens	Franklin Wayne Poley	42	0.26%		$331
Total valid votes			16,105	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			208	1.29%
Turnout			16,313	59.36%

B.C. General Election 1996: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Jenny Kwan	11,155	64.05%		$41,905
	Liberal	Anne Beer	4,243	24.36%		$32,735
	Green	Paul Alexander	759	4.36%	–	$100
	Progressive Democrat	John Spark	584	3.35%	–	$100
	Reform	Wayne Marsden	354	2.03%
	Communist	Kimball Cariou	121	0.69%		$319
	Natural Law	John S.W. Kent	114	0.65%		$120
	Social Credit	Agnes Kokko	86	0.49%	–	$526
Total valid votes			17,416	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			284	1.60%
Turnout			17,700	60.50%

B.C. General Election 1991: Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Mike Harcourt	10,108	63.3%		$105,044
	Liberal	Todd Gnissios	3,137	19.65%		$3,341
	Social Credit	Randy Vannatter	2,143	13.43%	–	$11,663
	Green	Grant Watson	432	2.71%	–	$579
	Libertarian	John Wayne Marsden	80	0.50%
	Interdependence	Jacek (Jack) Latek	62	0.39%
Total valid votes			15,962	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			600	3.62%
Turnout			16,562	64.03%

External links

• BC Stats
• Results of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Results of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• Results of 1991 election
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia