Joyce Murray

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Joyce Murray

Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra
Incumbent
Assumed office March 31, 2008
Preceded by	Stephen Owen
MLA for New Westminster
In office 2001 – 2005
Preceded by	Graeme Bowbrick
Succeeded by	Chuck Puchmayr

Political party	Liberal Party of Canada, British Columbia Liberal Party

Joyce Murray is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of New Westminster in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005, when she was defeated by Chuck Puchmayr in the 2005 election. During her term in the Legislative Assembly, she served in the cabinet of Gordon Campbell as Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection and Minister of Management Services.

Murray subsequently stood as the federal Liberal candidate in New Westminster—Coquitlam in the 2006 federal election, but was not elected. She was nominated as the federal Liberal candidate in Vancouver Quadra for the by-election held on March 17, 2008, following the resignation of Stephen Owen, and successfully retained the riding for the Liberals on by-election night, defeating Conservative candidate Deborah Meredith by 151 votes.