Legislature House of Commons First contested 1988 District webpage profile, map Elector 82,085 | District created 1987 Last contested 2015 Province British Columbia | |
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MP Jonathan Wilkinson
Liberal Census divisions Metro Vancouver Regional District, North Vancouver, Metro Vancouver Electoral Area A | ||
North Vancouver is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.
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Demographics
According to the Canada 2011 Census; 2013 representationEthnic groups: 71.9% White, 6.9% West Asian, 4.8% Chinese, 4.3% Filipino, 2.8% South Asian, 2.4% Korean, 2.2% Aboriginal, 1.6% Japanese, 1.0% Latin American
Languages: 71.8% English, 6.7% Persian, 3.2% Chinese, 2.2% Korean, 2.0% Tagalog, 1.8% French, 1.8% German, 1.4% Spanish
Religions: 47.2% Christian (18.2% Catholic, 7.0% Anglican, 6.6% United Church, 1.6% Lutheran, 1.5% Presbyterian, 1.4% Christian Orthodox, 1.3% Baptist 9.6% Other), 6.3% Muslim, 42.5% No religion
Median income (2010): $35,034
Average income (2010): $49,652
Geography
This district includes the entirety of the City of North Vancouver and the majority of the District of North Vancouver.
History
This riding was created in 1987 from portions of North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano electoral districts.
The 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution concluded that the electoral boundaries of North Vancouver should be adjusted, and a modified electoral district of the same name will be contested in future elections. The redefined North Vancouver loses the eastern portion of its current territory to the new district of Burnaby North—Seymour, while its western boundary with West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country is adjusted to correspond to the boundaries between the District of North Vancouver, West Vancouver and the Capilano Indian Reserve. These new boundaries were legally defined in the 2013 representation order, which came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.
Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following Members of Parliament:
Members of Parliament
North Vancouver, as well as surrounding North Shore ridings, typically elect right-leaning candidates in federal elections. For nearly 25 consecutive years between 1979 and 2004, the North Vancouver riding was dominated entirely by conservative MPs across four different (small "c") conservative parties. The stream was however interrupted in the 2004 general election, when outgoing North Vancouver (city) mayor Don Bell was able to swing the riding over to the Liberals, just narrowly defeating long-time incumbent Conservative MP Ted White. Bell was re-elected in the 2006 election (again by less than 4% of the vote), though in neither of his two terms did the sitting parliament even make it to the halfway point of its five-year mandate before an election was held. In the 2008 election, North Vancouver lawyer and Conservative candidate Andrew Saxton returned the riding to the Conservatives, winning a plurality of the vote and defeating the incumbent Don Bell. After being re-elected in 2011 with a near-majority of the vote, Saxton served as parliamentary secretary to multiple cabinet ministers in the Conservative majority government. In the 2015 general election, amidst a climate of growing dissatisfaction with the sitting government and prime minister and the emergence of populous strategic voting, Liberal candidate Jonathan Wilkinson defeated Saxton with a majority of the vote in the riding, and serves as parliamentary secretary to the minister of environment and climate change in the Liberal majority government in Canada's 43rd parliament.