Richmond East

Richmond East was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was replaced by the Richmond-Queensborough electoral district after the British Columbia electoral redistribution, 2015.

Demographics

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

Member of the Legislative Assembly

Its only MLA was Hon. Linda Reid, a former teacher. She was first elected in 1991 and represents the British Columbia Liberal Party. Ms. Reid was appointed Minister of State for Early Childhood Development on June 5, 2001.

Richmond East
Assembly	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Richmond
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

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

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)