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South Vancouver (electoral district)

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South Vancouver was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia . It first appeared on the hustings in the general election of 1916 (South Vancouver then was incorporated separately from the City of Vancouver).

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6-587: Following the 1928 election the South Vancouver riding was redistributed. Parts of it were put in different ridings, principally Vancouver-Point Grey , Vancouver Centre and Vancouver East . For other current and historical electoral districts in the City of Vancouver , please see Vancouver (electoral districts) . Note: Winners in each election are in bold . Elections BC Historical Returns Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Point Grey

12-560: A petition to recall the district's MLA, David Eby, was approved by Elections BC under the Recall and Initiative Act . However, the petition did not attract the required number of signatures. This was the third invocation of the recall procedure in Vancouver-Point Grey since the act was passed in 1994. (The other two unsuccessful attempts, in 1998 and 2003, both targeted Gordon Campbell .) The district currently comprises

18-483: Is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia , Canada. It was first contested in the general election of 1933 . It was created out of parts of Richmond-Point Grey , South Vancouver and Vancouver City . The riding began as a three-member seat, and was reduced to a two-member seat in 1966 when Vancouver-Little Mountain was created. In the redistribution preceding

24-440: The 1991 election, it was reduced to a one-member riding along with the other older urban ridings, as several new one-member ridings were created. Many prominent politicians have been elected as members, including three British Columbia premiers , Liberals Christy Clark and Gordon Campbell , and New Democrat incumbent premier David Eby . Former prime minister of Canada Kim Campbell also represented this riding. In 2023,

30-703: The Vancouver neighbourhoods of West Point Grey and the western part of Kitsilano , as well as the adjacent University Endowment Lands and the Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia . Student Vote Canada is a non-partisan program in Canada that holds mock elections in elementary and high schools alongside general elections (with the same candidates and same electoral system). Note: Winners of each election are in bold . For

36-507: The elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with three ballots, one for each seat, with three separate candidate-races: In 1988, Kim Campbell resigned as the MLA to run in the federal election. Tom Perry (NDP) won the seat in the 1989 by-election, finishing the term with Marzari as his seatmate. A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by

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