- Incumbent: Teresa Wat (Conservative | 2013)
- Candidates:
- NDP: Linda Li
- Conservative: Teresa Wat
- Green: Tamás Revóczi
- Independent: Charlie Smith
- Independent: Glynnis Hoi Sum Chan
- 2020 Results:
- Liberal – 50%
- NDP – 41%
- Green – 8%
- Description:
- Covering northwest Richmond, this riding has been represented by the BC Liberals’ Teresa Wat since 2013. Formerly Glen Clark’s press secretary in the 1990s, Wat became well-known in Richmond’s Chinese community through her work in media.
- The NDP, previously banking on the odds of a votesplit between Wat under United and a Conservative candidate, nominated local community activist Linda Li. As for the Greens, they’ve nominated President of the Sea Island Community Association Tamás Revóczi.
- On Sea Island, the Greens scored a robust 25% of the vote in 2020. Thompson, on the western edge of the riding, is a BC Liberal stronghold, and Wat should be able that appeal over. The polls around the Terra Nova community there gave Wat a staggering 70% of the vote in 2017 and 2020! The right’s strength extends eastwards into the Golden Village commercial district, only blunted by territory taken in from Richmond-Queensborough east of Highway 99. Public safety and drug use is a hot topic in the community, especially since the Cambie and Sexsmith consumption site was supposed to be placed here.
- In a riding like this, the vote for the BC Liberals is a combination of wealth, small business, and antipathy towards the NDP. Combined with Wat’s personal vote, the Conservatives should have a good shot at taking the riding.
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.
