Victoria-Beacon Hill

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Victoria-Beacon Hill is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

Demographics

Population	49,427
Population Change, 1996-2001	-0.1%
Area (km²)	12.39
Pop. Density	3,989

Geography

The riding comprises most of the City of Victoria, the provincial capital. It is bounded by the coastline to the south and west; by the Municipality of Oak Bay to the east, by Bay Street and Haultain Street to the north.

History

Victoria-Beacon Hill was created in 1989, in time for the British Columbia general election, 1991, after the abolition of the two-member district of Victoria along with all other such dual ridings. In the 2008 boundary redistribution, Victoria-Beacon Hill kept 89 per cent of its area and added nine per cent of Victoria-Hillside.

Member of Legislative Assembly

New Democratic Party of BC MLA Gretchen Brewin was elected to represent the riding in 1991. She was re-elected in 1996, and served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1998 to 2000.

In 2001, Jeff Bray was elected, representing the British Columbia Liberal Party.

The current MLA is Carole James. She narrowly lost to Bray by 35 votes in 2001, but came back with an almost 2-1 margin of victory, as the BC NDP leader, in 2005. She was re-elected in the 2009 and 2013 provincial elections.

Election results

v t e British Columbia general election, 1991: Victoria-Beacon Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gretchen Brewin	10,939	47.95%	$48,796
	Liberal	Karen Bill	7,434	32.59%	$4,696
	Social Credit	Suzanne Hansen	3,712	16.27%	$46,834
	Green	Michael Timney	728	3.19%	$1,300
Total valid votes			22,813	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			629	2.68%
Turnout			23,442	74.06%

v t e British Columbia general election, 1996: Victoria-Beacon Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Gretchen Brewin	11,960	52.51%	$39,468
	Liberal	Howard Markson	7,636	33.52%	$25,991
	Progressive Democrat	Richard Fahl	1,093	4.80%	$1,555
	Green	Stephen DeMeulenaere	1,008	4.43%	$1,750
	Reform	Ken Conrad	654	2.87%	$6,135
	Social Credit	Lance van Dyk	96	0.42%	$3,796
	Libertarian	Jill Kolbinson	92	0.40%	$130
	Independent	Sequoia Nathan Maxwell	73	0.32%	$124
	Natural Law	Cal Danyluk	64	0.28%	$118
	Western Canada Concept	Bob Ward	59	0.26%	$227
	Common Sense	Johnny Douglas	43	0.19%	$100
Total valid votes			22,778	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			194	0.84%
Turnout			22,972	68.17%

v t e British Columbia general election, 2001: Victoria-Beacon Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Jeff Bray	9,297	37.04%	$52,485
	New Democratic	Carole James	9,262	36.90%	$44,963
	Green	Walter Meyer zu Erpen	5,453	21.72%	$8,210
	Marijuana	Troy Tompkins	532	2.12%	$70
	Unity	Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell	290	1.15%	$3,817
	Independent	Rob Botterell	205	0.82%	$911
	Communist	Kirsten Goodacre	64	0.25%	$427
Total Valid Votes			25,103	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			153	0.53%
Turnout			25,238	68.63%

v t e British Columbia general election, 2005: Victoria-Beacon Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	New Democratic	Carole James	15,064	57.21%	+20.31
	Liberal	Jeff Bray	8,091	30.73%	-6.31
	Green	John William Miller	2,783	10.57%	-11.15
	Democratic Reform	David McCaig	157	0.60%	+0.60
	Independent	Benjamin McConchie	121	0.46%	+0.46
	Independent	Ingmar Lee	116	0.44%	+0.44
Total			26,332	100.00%

v t e British Columbia general election, 2009: Victoria-Beacon Hill
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	New Democratic	Carole James	13,400	55.37	-1.84
	Liberal	Dallas Henault	6,375	26.34	-4.39
	Green	Adam Saab	4,106	16.97	+6.40
	Independent	Saul Andersen	319	1.32	+1.32
Total valid votes			24,200

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See also:	Electoral boundary redistribution of 2008 List of British Columbia general elections 2013 general election Defunct districts

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