Richmond East

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Richmond East was a

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Demographics

Population, 2001	55,576
Population Change, 1996–2001	7.9%
Area (km2)	82.64
Pop. Density (people per km2)	673

Geography

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History

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Member of the Legislative Assembly

Its only

. Ms. Reid was appointed Minister of State for Early Childhood Development on June 5, 2001.

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
35th	1991–1996		Linda Reid	Liberal
36th	1996–2001
37th	2001-2005
38th	2005–2009
39th	2009–2013
40th	2013–2017
Riding dissolved into Richmond-Queensborough

Election results

v t e 2013 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Linda Reid	11,592	54.68	-4.05	$113,202
	New Democratic	Gian Sihota	6,047	28.52	-3.93	$18,837
	Conservative	Nathaniel Lim	1,827	8.62	-	$4,529
	Green	Doug Perry	1,178	5.56	-0.99	$388
	Independent	Lloyd Chen	247	1.17	-	$250
	Excalibur	Ping Chan	175	0.82	-	$2,417
	Independent	Cliff Wei	133	0.63	-	$250
Total valid votes			21,199	100.00
Total rejected ballots			233	1.09
Turnout			21,432	47.58
Source: Elections BC[1]

2009 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Linda Reid	10,853	58.73%	$101,928
	New Democratic	Shawkat Hasan	5,998	32.45%	$16,464
	Green	Stephen Rees	1,211	6.55%	$2,500
	Nation Alliance	Wei Ping Chen	419	2.27%	$250
Total Valid Votes			18,481
Total Rejected Ballots			184	0.99%
Turnout			18,665	45.16%

B.C. General Election 2005 Richmond East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Linda Reid	11,652	57.48%		$79,453
	NDP	Gian Sihota	6,692	33.01%		$16,623
	Green	Michael Anthony Wolfe	1,530	7.55%	–	$867
	Independent	Mohamud Ali Farah	207	1.02%		$651
	Marijuana	Heidi Farnola	191	0.94%		$100
Total Valid Votes			20,272	100%
Total Rejected Ballots			182	0.90%
Turnout			20,454	53.01%

B.C. General Election 2001: Richmond East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Linda Reid	12,498	69.18%		$49,998
	NDP	Willy Nasgowitz	2,550	14.11%		$2,541
	Green	Stephen Kronstein	1,802	9.97%	–	$1,389
	Unity	Joe Pal	599	3.32%		$1,274
	Marijuana	John Shavluk	445	2.46%		$1,875
	Independent	Mohamud Ali Farah	173	0.96%		$440
Total Valid Votes			18,067	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			78	0.43%
Turnout			18,145	70.59%

B.C. General Election 1996: Richmond East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Linda Reid	10,205	55.60%		$36,939
	NDP	Balwant Sanghera	5,763	31.40%		$20,448
	Progressive Democrat	Marc G. Schaper	1,093	5.96%	–	$900
	Reform	Paula Peterson	792	4.32%		$4,067
	Green	Kevan Eric Hudson	235	1.28%	–	$100
	Social Credit	Chris O'Toole	139	0.76%	–	$8,250
	Conservative	Donald Veld	83	0.45%		$850
	Natural Law	Carina Shelly	43	0.23%		$100
Total Valid Votes			18,353	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			140	0.76%
Turnout			18,493	71.62%

B.C. General Election 1991: Richmond East

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Linda Reid	6,870	40.91%		$21,108
	NDP	Ron Fontaine	6,096	36.31%		$24,505
	Social Credit	Larry Blaschuk	3,703	22.05%	–	$33,882
	Green	Douglas Dunn	123	0.73%	–
Total Valid Votes			16,792	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			494	2.86%
Turnout			17,286	75.79%

External links

• Result of 1991 election
• 2009 Official Election Results by Candidate
• Result of 2001 election (pdf)
• 2001 Expenditures (pdf)
• Result of 1996 election
• 1996 Expenditures
• 1991 Expenditures
• Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
• BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)

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