- Current MLA: None (riding to be contested for the first time in 2024)
- Candidates:
- BC NDP: Joan Phillip (won in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant in 2023)
- BC United: None nominated yet
- BC Greens: None nominated yet
- BC Conservatives: None nominated yet
- Description:
- Arguably the most BC NDP-friendly riding in the province, Strathcona (formerly Mount Pleasant) not only comfortably fended off Gordon Campbell’s 2001 landslide, but also saw two second place finishes from the BC Greens.
- Home to Chinatown, Strathcona, and chunks of Mount Pleasant and Grandview-Woodland, the riding is home to both the most subsidized housing in the province and a slew of new apartments, whose residents, despite their differing socioeconomic circumstances, tend to lean towards the BC NDP.
- Despite being as deep orange as its East Van brethren, its demographic makeup differs markedly from other BC NDP strongholds east of Main, having both the highest Indigenous population in the entire City as well as a much lower amount of immigrants.
- The polling stations near Chinatown may be of interest to see if the opening for centre-right, tough-on-crime politics discovered by Ken Sim and ABC can be magnified by either BC United or the BC Conservatives.
- Election 2020 Results (with 2024 boundaries):
- BC NDP – 68%
- BC Greens – 20%
- BC Liberals – 13%
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.
