Vancouver-Point Grey

Vancouver-Point Grey is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 1933. 2013 [British Columbia general election|Since 2013], the riding has been represented by David Eby, who has been leader of the British Columbia [New Democratic Party|New Democratic Party] and Premier of British Columbia since 2022.

Geography

The district 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

The riding was created out of parts of Richmond-Point Grey, South Vancouver, and Vancouver City, and was first contested in the 1933 general election as a three-member district. It was reduced to a two-member district in 1966 when Vancouver-Little Mountain was created and was further reduced to a one-member district when all remaining multi-member urban districts where converted to one-member districts in the redistribution preceding the 1991 election. When it was a multiple-member district, its seats were filled using plurality block voting, except in 1952 and 1953, when instant-runoff voting was used in a separate contest for each seat.

Prominent representatives

Many prominent politicians have been elected as members, including three British Columbia premiers: Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark of the Liberal Party, and David Eby of the New Democratic Party, Mayor of Vancouver George Clark Miller, Liberal leader and later federal minister Arthur Laing, and Progressive [Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative] prime minister Kim Campbell, who was briefly the Social Credit Party|Social Credit] MLA here. All MLAs for Point Grey since the 1960s have served in either provincial or federal cabinet at some point, but none have served in both. The district had also produced a disproportionate number of attorneys general: Royal Maitland, Robert Bonner, Garde Gardom, Eby and Campbell. The 1986 election that elected Campbell along with Darlene Marzari was the only instance in British Columbia's electoral history where a multi-member district returned only women MLAs.

2023 recall petition

In 2023, a petition to recall the district's MLA, David Eby, was approved by Elections BC under the Recall and Initiative Act. 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.

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.

Electoral history 1933–1986