- Incumbent: Aman Singh (NDP | 2020)
- Candidates:
- NDP: Aman Singh
- Conservative: Steve Kooner
- Green: Cindy Wu
- Independent: Errol E. Povah
- 2020 Results:
- NDP – 47%
- Liberal – 41%
- Green – 7%
- Conservative – 5%
- Description:
- Stretching from the western end of New Westminster across farmland to the residential areas of east Richmond, Richmond-Queensborough is a mashup of quite a few communities. The riding is highly multicultural and home to a significant Chinese, Filipino, and South Asian presence.
- Queensborough is staunchly NDP, giving them around 55% of the vote come election time. Meanwhile, the Richmond farms are much more right-wing, but also make up little of the overall riding’s population. The real battlegrounds will be in Cambie in the northwest of the riding, and in the southwest’s Broadmoor/Ironwood neighbourhood.
- The NDP are running incumbent MLA Aman Singh, while the Conservatives are running lawyer Steve Kooner - who lost a Liberal nomination to Parm Bains 3 years ago. For Singh to win re-election, he must run up the margins in Queensborough to offset expected losses elsewhere in Richmond, while Kooner’s path to victory lies through outweighing Queensborough’s left-wing lean with gains among NDP-leaning South Asian voters in the southwest of 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.
