- Incumbent: Anne Kang (NDP | 2017)
- Candidates:
- NDP: Anne Kang
- Conservative: Dharam Kajal
- 2020 Results:
- NDP – 57 per cent
- Liberal – 32 per cent
- Green – 12 per cent
- Description:
- Flipping in 2009 even as the NDP lost the election to Gordon Campbell, the seat would only grow more favourable for the NDP over the next decade and a half. Coming off a stomping 25-point victory in 2020, incumbent Anne Kang is once again reoffering for the NDP.
- This riding is the successor to Burnaby-Deer Lake, with the only difference being that Metrotown was ceded to its southern neighbour while taking in a smidge more territory east of Russell Avenue that extends it into Kingsway. The NDP draws strength along Boundary Road and along the Trans-Canada Highway, while the BC Liberals used to perform best around the eastern part of the riding in Deer Lake and Buckingham Heights.
- For this election, look for the Conservatives to target eastern polls in the riding and sway high-income voters back into the right-wing tent with pocketbook concerns, while the BCNDP will seek to consolidate federal Liberals orphaned by the folding of BC United into their tent.
Hugh Chan is a second year student at UBC studying International Relations and Data Science. You can find more coverage of the 2024 BC election as well as politics across East Asia and the Anglosphere at https://x.com/shxnhugh.
