Vancouver-Little Mountain

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Vancouver-Little Mountain was a provincial electoral district in the

hustings in the general election of 1966 as a two-member seat. It returned as a two-member seat from 1966 to 1986 and became a one-member seat thereafter. After the 1996 election, the areas it comprised were redistributed. Successor ridings, roughly, are Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Langara
.

Under the new representation order of the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution approved in 2023, the Vancouver-Little Mountain name will be revived, with the new electoral district taking territory from the existing Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-False Creek, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Kensington ridings.

MLAs

Dual-member district

Assembly Years Seat 1 Seat 2
Member Party Member Party
Riding created from Vancouver East and Vancouver-Point Grey
28th 1966–1969
Leslie Raymond Peterson
Social Credit
Grace Mary McCarthy
Social Credit
29th 1969–1972
30th 1972–1975 Phyllis Florence Young NDP Roy Thomas Cummings NDP
21st 1975–1979
Grace Mary McCarthy
Social Credit
Evan Maurice Wolfe Social Credit
32nd 1979–1983
33rd 1983–1986 Doug Mowat
34th 1986–1991

Single-member district

Assembly Years Member Party
35th 1991–1996 Tom Perry NDP
36th 1996–2001
Gary Farrell-Collins
Liberal
Riding dissolved into Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Riding re-created from Vancouver-False Creek, Vancouver-Fairview, Vancouver-Kensington, Vancouver-Langara, and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
43rd

Demographics

Population, 1966
Population change, 1966–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Electoral history

28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit
Leslie Raymond Peterson
12,380 24.74% unknown
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 11,566 23.11% unknown
New Democratic Joseph Hardcastle Corsbie 8,620 17.23% unknown
New Democratic Robert Eugene Clair 8,523 17.03% unknown
 
Liberal
Edward Charles Sweeney 4,681 9.35% unknown
 
Liberal
Jean Margaret Crowley 4,270 8.53% unknown
Total valid votes 50,040 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 455
Turnout %
29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit
Leslie Raymond Peterson
14,292 25.47% unknown
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 14,044 25.03% unknown
New Democratic Richard Melville Rockwell 9,020 16.07% unknown
New Democratic Dennis Frank Mulroney 8,913 15.88% unknown
 
Liberal
Peter Hector Pearse 4,994 8.90% unknown
 
Liberal
Robert Harry Beattie 4,851 8.64% unknown
Total valid votes 56,114 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 345
Turnout %
30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic Phyllis Florence Young 11,822 20.06% unknown
New Democratic Roy Thomas Cummings 11,761 19.96% unknown
Social Credit
Leslie Raymond Peterson
11,219 19.04% unknown
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 11,109 18.85% unknown
 
Liberal
Richard John Joseph Durante 3,874 6.57% unknown
 
Liberal
David Baird Penfield Gibson 3,854 6.54% unknown
 
Progressive Conservative
Reginald David Grandison 2,358 4.00% unknown
 
Progressive Conservative
William Allan Brown 2,295 3.89% unknown
  Independent David John Bader 253 0.43% unknown
Communist Homer Stevens 158 0.27% unknown
Communist James William (Jim) Beynon 122 0.21% unknown
  Independent Gordon James Turner 101 0.17% unknown
Total valid votes 58,926 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 417
Turnout %
31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 15,627 26.62% unknown
Social Credit Evan Maurice Wolfe 15,313 26.08% unknown
New Democratic Phyllis Florence Young 12,000 20.44% unknown
New Democratic Roy Thomas Cummings 11,587 19.74% unknown
 
Liberal
James Bruce Siemens 1,518 2.58% unknown
 
Liberal
Beverley E. Joyce Ballantyne 1,369 2.33% unknown
 
Progressive Conservative
William Allan Brown 697 1.19% unknown
 
Progressive Conservative
Eric Henry Burgoyne 599 1.02% unknown
Total valid votes 58,710 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 595
Turnout %
32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 19,350 27.11% unknown
Social Credit Evan Maurice Wolfe 18,689 26.18% unknown
New Democratic
Michael Franklin Harcourt
17,009 23.83% unknown
New Democratic Jean Swanson 16,329 22.88% unknown
Total valid votes 71,377 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 1,143
Turnout %
33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 20,578 25.18% unknown
Social Credit Doug Mowat 20,400 24.96% unknown
New Democratic Jean Swanson 18,943 23.18% unknown
New Democratic Gerry Scott 18,822 23.03% unknown
 
Liberal
William Pike Hopes 1,600 1.96% unknown
 
Liberal
Frank Arthur F.J. Jones 1,381 1.69% unknown
Total valid votes 81,724 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 805
Turnout %
34th British Columbia election, 1986
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Grace Mary McCarthy 18,049 22.15% unknown
Social Credit Doug Mowat 15,962 19.58% unknown
New Democratic Colin Patrick Kelly 15,717 19.28% unknown
New Democratic Adrienne Hazel Peacock 15,407 18.90% unknown
 
Liberal
Arthur John Lee
10,627 13.04% unknown
 
Liberal
Joyce E. Statton 5,498 6.75% unknown
People's Front Dorothy Jean O'Donnell 128 0.16%
People's Front Allan H. Bezanson 111 O.14%
Total valid votes 81,499 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 1,219
Turnout %
35th British Columbia election, 1991 1
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
New Democratic Tom Perry 10,383 45.43% unknown
 
Liberal
Michael K. Stebner 8,180 35.79% unknown
Social Credit Sharon E. White 3,944 17.26% unknown
Green Geoff Berner 259 1.13% unknown
  Independent Cheryl M. Maczko 90 0.39% unknown
Total valid votes 22,856 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 562
Turnout 69.44%
1 Seat reduced to one member from two.


1996 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal
Gary Farrell-Collins
12,036 50.25
New Democratic Margaret Birrell 9,390 39.20
Progressive Democrat Ted Phillip Bradley 1,062 4.43
Green Stuart Parker 714 2.98
Reform David J. Waine 489 2.04
Independent Dan Grant 96 0.40
Social Credit Gerold Kuklinski 85 0.35
Natural Law Estelle Brooke 82 0.34
Total valid votes 23,954 100.00
Total rejected ballots 184
Turnout 67.80

After the 1996 election the Vancouver-Little Mountain riding was redistributed. Successor ridings, roughly, are Vancouver-Fraserview, Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Vancouver-Fairview and Vancouver-Langara.

Sources

Elections BC Historical Returns