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Election 2024 Riding Brief: Vancouver-Fraserview

This is one of 93 riding briefs that will be published ahead of the 2024 provincial election.
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Vancouver-Fraserview Electoral District
  • Current MLA: George Chow, BC NDP (first elected in 2017
  • Candidates:
    • BC NDP: None nominated yet
    • BC United: None nominated yet
    • BC Greens: None nominated yet
    • BC Conservative: Jagdeep Sanghera
  • Description:
    • Since 1986, Vancouver-Fraserview has gone for the winning party in every election. In recent years, incumbent MLA George Chow has built a personal vote in this bellwether seat, even managing to increase his raw vote by 1,000 in 2020, while the pandemic depressed turnout.
    • Nestled in the southeast corner of Vancouver, the riding encompasses the diverse neighbourhoods of Killarney, Victoria-Fraserview, and a sliver of Sunset—all in a multicultural tapestry that is 38 per cent Chinese, 18 per cent South Asian and 10% per cent Filipino.
    • While most of Vancouver is rapidly densifying, Fraserview has done so at a much slower pace, with buildings above six storeys still a rare sight.
    • The BC NDP does the best on the easternmost edge of the riding in Champlain Heights, with townhouse complexes and co-ops providing cheap, affordable housing. Meanwhile, the BC Liberals traditionally do the best around the centre of the riding, which, while not as affluent as the West Side, is nonetheless quite solidly middle-class. 
  • Election 2020 Results (with 2024 boundaries):
    • BC NDP – 57%
    • BC Liberals – 33%
    • BC Greens – 9%

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.

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Map courtesy of Elections BC