- Incumbent: Katrina Chen (NDP | 2017)
- Candidates:
- NDP: Reah Arora
- Conservative: Simon Chandler
- Green: Tara Shustarian
- 2020 Results:
- NDP – 59 per cent
- Liberal – 26 per cent
- Green – 13 per cent
- Description
- Flipping back to the NDP in 2013 after almost 2 decades of representation by the BC Liberals (including one Christy Clark), Burnaby East has a strong Dipper pedigree. Federally home to NDP luminaries like Tommy Douglas and Svend Robinson, union organizer Reah Arora hopes to continue the riding’s orange streak.
- The eastern side of the riding tends to be more progressive - from the SFU campus on Burnaby Mountain down Gaglardi Way as it snakes around, then running along Lougheed Highway until it hits the border with the Tri-Cities.
- As for the BC Liberals, they retained some strength in northwest pockets east of Sperling Avenue and around Burnaby Lake. Of interest is how the federal Liberals in these more high-income areas break - will the BCNDP win them over, or will they gravitate to the BC Conservatives?
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.
