Vancouver-Kingsway (provincial electoral district)
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Vancouver-Kingsway is a provincial
Provinces and territories of Canada
The provinces and territories of Canada combine to make up the world's second-largest country by area. There are ten provinces and three territories...

 electoral district
Electoral district
An electoral district is a distinct territorial subdivision for holding a separate election for one or more seats in a legislative body...

 for the Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....

 of British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

.

Demographics

Population 54,379
Population Change, 1996–2001 3.6%
Area (km²) 9.02
Pop. Density (People per km²) 6,029

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA
Member of the Legislative Assembly
A Member of the Legislative Assembly or a Member of the Legislature , is a representative elected by the voters of a constituency to the legislature or legislative assembly of a sub-national jurisdiction....

 is Adrian Dix
Adrian Dix
Adrian Dix is a Canadian politician, currently serving as MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia and as leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election.-Aide to Glen Clark:...

. He was first elected in 2005. He represents the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Election results

British Columbia sales tax referendum, 2011
British Columbia sales tax referendum, 2011
A postal referendum on sales tax was held in British Columbia from June 13 to August 5, 2011, though Canada Post workers were locked out until June 27. Voters were asked whether the Harmonized Sales Tax should be retained or split back to the original Provincial Sales Tax and Goods & Services Tax...

Side Votes %
Yes 13,701 72.45%
No 5,211 27.55%

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|New Democrat
New Democratic Party of British Columbia
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...


|Adrian Dix
Adrian Dix
Adrian Dix is a Canadian politician, currently serving as MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway in British Columbia and as leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election.-Aide to Glen Clark:...


|align="right"|9,229
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| style="width: 130px" |BC Liberal
British Columbia Liberal Party
The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...


|Bill Yuen
|align="right"|6,518
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|Green
Green Party of British Columbia
The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...


|Rev Warkentin
|align="right"|699
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| Refederation
British Columbia Refederation Party
The B.C. Refederation Party is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada advocating direct democracy and reform to Canadian federalism...


|Matt Kadioglu
|align="right"|171
|align="right"|
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|People's Front
People's Front (British Columbia)
The People's Front is the British Columbia, Canada wing of the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada.In the 2001 British Columbia election, it nominated 11 candidates, received a total of 720 votes...


|Charles Boylan
Charles Boylan
Charles Boylan is a Canadian radio broadcaster and political activist. He produces and hosts Wake up with co-op and Discussion, programs on CFRO 102.7; a community-run, co-operatively-owned, non-corporate radio station broadcasting from Vancouver, British Columbia...


|align="right"|112
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!align="left" colspan=3|Total valid votes
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British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2009
British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2009
A second referendum on electoral reform was held in conjunction with the provincial election on May 12, 2009. The BC-single transferrable vote electoral system was again voted on by the BC electorate. It would have required 60 per cent overall approval and 50 per cent approval in at least 60 per...

Side Votes %
FPTP 9,309 59.98%
BC-STV
BC-STV
BC-STV is a proposed voting system recommended by the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform for use in British Columbia, and belongs to the Single Transferable Vote family of voting systems. BC-STV was supported by a majority of the voters in a referendum held in 2005 but the government had...

6,211 40.02%

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|NDP
New Democratic Party of British Columbia
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...


|Adrian Dix
|align="right"|10,038
|align="right"|51.44%
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|BC Liberal
British Columbia Liberal Party
The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...


|Rob Nijjar
Rob Nijjar
Rob Nijjar is a Canadian Liberal politician. He has lived all his life on Vancouver's East side. He attended school in southeast Vancouver and Langara College before attending Simon Fraser University, where he earned a Bachelors Degree in General Studies in 1992. After graduation and before...


|align="right"|7,894
|align="right"|40.46%
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|Green
Green Party of British Columbia
The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...


|Stuart Mackinnon
|align="right"|1,212
|align="right"|6.21%
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|Marijuana
British Columbia Marijuana Party
The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....


|Steven Mackenzie Lay
|align="right"|219
|align="right"|1.12%
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|People's Front
|Donna Petersen
|align="right"|77
|align="right"|0.39%
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|Sex Party
Sex Party (British Columbia)
The Sex Party is a political party based in British Columbia, Canada, that contests provincial elections to promote libertarian and sex-positive attitudes towards sexual education, pornography, indecency laws, and prostitution. It describes itself as "the world's first registered political party...


|Yvonne Maylynne Tink
|align="right"|73
|align="right"|0.37%
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!align="left" colspan=3|Total
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British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005
British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005
A referendum was held in the Canadian province of British Columbia on May 17, 2005 to determine whether or not to adopt the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform...

Side Votes %
Yes 9,974 53.87%
No 8,541 46.13%

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|BC Liberal
British Columbia Liberal Party
The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...


|Rob Nijjar
Rob Nijjar
Rob Nijjar is a Canadian Liberal politician. He has lived all his life on Vancouver's East side. He attended school in southeast Vancouver and Langara College before attending Simon Fraser University, where he earned a Bachelors Degree in General Studies in 1992. After graduation and before...


|align="right"|8,264
|align="right"|49.89%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$41,856
|-

|NDP
New Democratic Party of British Columbia
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...


|Alicia Barsallo
|align="right"|5,429
|align="right"|32.78%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$41,185

|Green
Green Party of British Columbia
The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...


|Geoff Lyon
|align="right"|1,725
|align="right"|10.41%
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|align="right"|$468

|Unity
|Sal Vetro
|align="right"|541
|align="right"|3.27%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$2,569

|Marijuana
British Columbia Marijuana Party
The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....


|Steven Mackenzie Lay
|align="right"|364
|align="right"|2.20%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$394

|Council of British Columbians
Council of British Columbians
The Council of British Columbians was a minor political party in British Columbia, Canada. It nominated two candidates in the 2001 British Columbia election:...


|Tyler Ducharme
|align="right"|159
|align="right"|0.96%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$3,268

|People's Front
|Donna Petersen
|align="right"|81
|align="right"|0.49%
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|align="right"|$767
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|16,563
!align="right"|100.00%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|188
!align="right"|1.14%
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|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|16,751
!align="right"|67.14%
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|-

|NDP
New Democratic Party of British Columbia
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...


|Glen Clark
Glen Clark
Glen David Clark is a politician in British Columbia, Canada who served as the 31st Premier of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.-Early life and education:...


|align="right"|10,525
|align="right"|55.46%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$35,297

| style="width: 130px" |BC Liberal
British Columbia Liberal Party
The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...


|Francis Ho
|align="right"|6,997
|align="right"|36.87%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$43,041
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|PDA
Progressive Democratic Alliance
The Progressive Democratic Alliance was a centrist political party in British Columbia, Canada founded by Gordon Wilson, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Powell River—Sunshine Coast....


|Julia Marks
|align="right"|1,093
|align="right"|4.80%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$1,087

|BC Reform
Reform Party of British Columbia
The Reform Party of British Columbia is a populist right wing political party in British Columbia, Canada. Although its name is similar to the defunct Reform Party of Canada, the provincial party was founded before the federal party was and it did not have any formal association with...


|Graham Norton
|align="right"|367
|align="right"|1.93%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$1,558

|Green
Green Party of British Columbia
The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...


|Marilyn Hogan
|align="right"|264
|align="right"|1.39%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$100

|Libertarian
British Columbia Libertarian Party
The British Columbia Libertarian Party is a libertarian political party in British Columbia, Canada.It first nominated candidates in the 1986 provincial election...


|Randy Eremko
|align="right"|98
|align="right"|0.52%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$160

|Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...


|Patrick S. Saunders
|align="right"|75
|align="right"|0.40%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$3,339

|Independent
|Protais Haje
|align="right"|69
|align="right"|0.36%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$972

|Natural Law
Natural Law Party of Canada
The Natural Law Party of Canada was the Canadian branch of the international Natural Law Party founded in 1992 by a group of educators, business leaders, and lawyers who practiced Transcendental Meditation....


|Steven R. Beck
|align="right"|65
|align="right"|0.34%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$136
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|18,978
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|257
!align="right"|1.34%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|19,235
!align="right"|71.07%
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!align="right"|
|}

|-

|NDP
New Democratic Party of British Columbia
The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...


|Glen Clark
Glen Clark
Glen David Clark is a politician in British Columbia, Canada who served as the 31st Premier of British Columbia from 1996 to 1999.-Early life and education:...


|align="right"|9,292
|align="right"|54.79%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$43,714
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| style="width: 130px" |BC Liberal
British Columbia Liberal Party
The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...


|Elaine M. White
|align="right"|4,390
|align="right"|25.88%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$1,896

|Social Credit
British Columbia Social Credit Party
The British Columbia Social Credit Party, whose members are known as Socreds, was the governing political party of British Columbia, Canada, for more than 30 years between the 1952 provincial election and the 1991 election...


|Christie Jung
|align="right"|3,112
|align="right"|18.35%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$16,483

|Green
Green Party of British Columbia
The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...


|Michael G. Horn
|align="right"|137
|align="right"|0.81%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$14

|Communist
Communist League (Canada)
The Communist League in Canada was founded as the "Revolutionary Workers League/Ligue Ouvrière Révolutionnaire" in 1977 as the result of a merger of the League for Socialist Action , the Revolutionary Marxist Group and the Groupe Marxiste Revolutionaire.Originally a Trotskyist party, the RWL was...


|Ned W. Dmytryshyn
|align="right"|29
|align="right"|0.17%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$247
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|16,960
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|599
!align="right"|3.41%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|17,559
!align="right"|70.85%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}

1991 Recall Referendum

British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991
British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991
The British Columbia Recall and Initiative Referendum was a referendum held in British Columbia on October 17, 1991. It was concurrent with that year's general election. The referendum posed two questions. They were on whether elected officials should be able to be recalled and whether voters...

Side Votes %
Yes 13,033 86.16%
No 2,093 13.84%

1991 Initiative Referendum

British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991
British Columbia recall and initiative referendum, 1991
The British Columbia Recall and Initiative Referendum was a referendum held in British Columbia on October 17, 1991. It was concurrent with that year's general election. The referendum posed two questions. They were on whether elected officials should be able to be recalled and whether voters...

Side Votes %
Yes 12,688 87.26%
No 1,852 12.74%

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