New Westminster—Burnaby

New Westminster—Burnaby is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997 and since 2015.

History

The 1988–1997 edition of this riding was created in 1987 from parts of Burnaby and New Westminster—Coquitlam ridings. The riding consisted of the City of New Westminster and the southern part of the District Municipality of Burnaby. It was abolished in 1996 when it was merged into New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby.

The riding was recreated following the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order.^[3] It was created from parts of Burnaby—New Westminster and New Westminster—Coquitlam. Its boundaries were legally defined in the 2013 representation order, which came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.^[4]

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Burnaby and New Westminster—Coquitlam
34th	1988–1993	Dawn Black	New Democratic
35th	1993–1997	Paul Forseth	Reform
Riding dissolved into New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby
Riding re-created from Burnaby—New Westminster and New Westminster—Coquitlam
42nd	2015–Present	Peter Julian	New Democratic

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Peter Julian	22,876	43.46	-8.32	–
	Liberal	Sasha Ramnarine	15,253	28.97	+20.27	–
	Conservative	Chloé Ellis	10,512	19.97	-14.79	–
	Green	Kyle Routledge	2,487	4.72	+0.40	–
	Libertarian	Rex Brocki	1,368	2.60	–	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Joseph Theriault	146	0.28	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			52,642	100.00		$211,691.98
Total rejected ballots			363	0.68	–
Turnout			53,005	66.95	–
Eligible voters			79,176
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-14.30
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[7]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	21,200	51.78
	Conservative	14,230	34.75
	Liberal	3,563	8.70
	Green	1,772	4.33
	Others	179	0.44

Canadian federal election, 1993
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%
	Reform	Paul E. Forseth	16,254	29.33	+26.32
	Liberal	Leanore Copeland	15,430	27.84	+8.57
	New Democratic	Dawn Black	14,442	26.06	-17.56
	Progressive Conservative	Neil MacKay	6,419	11.58	-19.92
	National	P. Jeffery Jewell	1,775	3.20	–
	Natural Law	Carolyn Grayson	374	0.67	–
	Green	Todd E. Romaine	313	0.56	-0.02
	Libertarian	Robert Fong	267	0.48	-0.07
	Independent	Jess P. Lee	73	0.13	–
	Commonwealth of Canada	Geoff Dakin	70	0.13	–
Total valid votes			55,417	100.0
	Reform gain from New Democratic		Swing		+8.88

Canadian federal election, 1988
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Dawn Black	24,933	43.62
	Progressive Conservative	Marie Taylor	18,007	31.50
	Liberal	Carlos Brito	11,013	19.27
	Reform	Bill Anderson	1,722	3.01
	Social Credit	Randall Rush	718	1.26
	Green	Richard Bidwell	332	0.58
	Libertarian	Paul Geddes	316	0.55
	Communist	Elsie Dean	116	0.20
Total valid votes			57,157	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Burnaby and New Westminster—Coquitlam, both of which elected a New Democrat in the last election.

Federal ridings in Greater Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast

Liberal	Burnaby North—Seymour Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam North Vancouver Vancouver Centre Vancouver Granville Vancouver Quadra Vancouver South West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country

New Democratic	Burnaby South New Westminster—Burnaby Port Moody—Coquitlam Vancouver East Vancouver Kingsway

Federal ridings in British Columbia

British Columbia Interior	Cariboo—Prince George Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo Kelowna—Lake Country Kootenay—Columbia North Okanagan—Shuswap Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies Skeena—Bulkley Valley South Okanagan—West Kootenay

Fraser Valley and the Southern Lower Mainland	Abbotsford Chilliwack—Hope Cloverdale—Langley City Delta Fleetwood—Port Kells Langley—Aldergrove Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge Richmond Centre South Surrey—White Rock Steveston—Richmond East Surrey Centre Surrey—Newton

Vancouver and the Northern Lower Mainland	Burnaby North—Seymour Burnaby South Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam New Westminster—Burnaby North Vancouver Port Moody—Coquitlam Vancouver Centre Vancouver East Vancouver Granville Vancouver Kingsway Vancouver Quadra Vancouver South West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country

Vancouver Island	Courtenay—Alberni Cowichan—Malahat—Langford Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke Nanaimo—Ladysmith North Island—Powell River Saanich—Gulf Islands Victoria

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