Vancouver East (federal electoral district)

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Vancouver East (Template:Langx) is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1935. Since 2015, it has been represented by New Democratic Party MP Jenny Kwan.

Vancouver East is known as a New Democratic Party stronghold; the NDP and its Co-operative Commonwealth Federation predecessor have won all but two elections in the riding since its creation in 1933. Both losses (in 1974 and in 1993) have come at the hands of Liberal candidates who failed to retain the seat at the next election. The Conservative Party and its right-leaning predecessors have always fared poorly in the riding, rarely garnering more than 20 percent of the vote.

In the 2006 federal election, the NDP won a higher percentage of the vote in Vancouver East than in any other riding in the country: 56.6 percent. In the 2011 election, the NDP increased its majority win to 62.83 percent.

Geography

The district includes the City of Vancouver neighbourhoods of Downtown Eastside, Mount Pleasant, Grandview–Woodland, and Hastings–Sunrise.

Demographics

Though Vancouver East is home to a predominantly impoverished underclass populace, it is also home to a prominent industrial and working-class riding. The district is well known for hosting North America's largest Chinatown, in addition to being one of the poorest areas in the Metro Vancouver Regional District, known as the Downtown Eastside. 42 percent of the riding's inhabitants are immigrants and 22 percent are of Chinese ancestry. A high number, 63 percent, of residents are renters. 24 percent of residents over age 25 have a university certificate or degree. Manufacturing, tourism, shipping, accommodation and food service industries are vital to the employment base in this riding. The average family income is over Template:CAD. The unemployment rate is about 7.7 percent.<ref>Vancouver East, CBC.ca, 2008.</ref>

The ethnically diverse area is home to many of the city's artists and socio-political activists. In recent years,Template:When the area has been negatively affected by an influx of hard drugs and the concomitant social consequences associated with their use.

Panethnic groups in Vancouver East (2011−2021)
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European Template:Efn	58,615	Template:Percentage	58,580	Template:Percentage	52,315	Template:Percentage
East Asian Template:Efn	25,600	Template:Percentage	26,880	Template:Percentage	27,590	Template:Percentage
Southeast Asian Template:Efn	9,270	Template:Percentage	8,975	Template:Percentage	10,500	Template:Percentage
Indigenous	5,940	Template:Percentage	5,880	Template:Percentage	5,055	Template:Percentage
South Asian	3,850	Template:Percentage	2,760	Template:Percentage	2,310	Template:Percentage
Latin American	3,330	Template:Percentage	1,975	Template:Percentage	1,950	Template:Percentage
African	2,165	Template:Percentage	1,685	Template:Percentage	1,445	Template:Percentage
Middle Eastern Template:Efn	1,710	Template:Percentage	1,065	Template:Percentage	835	Template:Percentage
OtherTemplate:Efn	3,320	Template:Percentage	2,115	Template:Percentage	1,925	Template:Percentage
Total responses	113,805	Template:Percentage	109,905	Template:Percentage	103,920	Template:Percentage
Total population	118,675	Template:Percentage	115,724	Template:Percentage	110,097	Template:Percentage
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History

The electoral district was created in 1933 from Vancouver South and Vancouver—Burrard ridings.

Vancouver East was one two electoral districts in British Columbia that saw no changes to its boundaries proposed following the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution.

Historical boundaries

Members of Parliament

Current member of Parliament

Its member of Parliament (MP) is Jenny Kwan. Kwan has served in the House of Commons since 2015. Prior to her federal service, she was a member of Vancouver City Council and the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. She is a member of the New Democratic Party.