Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam

Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam

British Columbia electoral district
Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam in relation to other Greater Vancouver federal electoral ridings.
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
MP	James Moore Conservative
District created	2003
First contested	2004
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	129,706
Electors (2011)	79,772
Area (km²)[2]	649.35
Pop. density (per km²)	199.7
Census divisions	Greater Vancouver
Census subdivisions	Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Greater Vancouver A, Coquitlam 2, Anmore, Belcarra

Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004.

Demographics

Consisting of the following parts of the Greater Vancouver Regional District:

(a) the villages of Anmore and Belcarra;

(b) the City of Port Coquitlam;

(c) the following parts of Subdivision A:

(i) that part lying easterly of Indian Arm and the Indian River and northerly of the City of Coquitlam and the Village of Anmore;

(ii) that part on the north shoreline of Burrard Inlet within the City of Port Moody;

(iii) Boulder Island;

(d) that part of the City of Coquitlam lying northerly of Highway No. 7A (Barnet Highway, Lougheed Highway);

(e) that part of the City of Port Moody lying northerly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the easterly limit of said city with Guildford Drive; thence westerly along said drive, its production and Murray Street to the southerly production of the most southeasterly point of Port Moody in Burrard Inlet (at Inlet Park); thence northerly along said production to said port; thence generally westerly along said port to the westerly limit of said city; and

(f) Coquitlam Indian Reserve No. 2.

History

This riding was created by the 2003 Representation Order from Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam riding.

The 2012 electoral redistribution will see this riding dissolved into Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam and Port Moody—Coquitlam for the 2015 election.

Members of Parliament

Current Member of Parliament

Its Member of Parliament is The Honourable James Moore, a former broadcaster. He was first elected in 2000, and is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was re-elected in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections. Moore was the Secretary of State for Official Languages, Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics before the cabinet shuffle announced on October 30, 2008, when he was appointed Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages.

Election results

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

References

• "(Code 59021) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-06. 
• Expenditures - 2004
• Expenditures - 2000
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Notes

External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada

Federal ridings in Greater Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast New Democratic Burnaby—Douglas Burnaby—New Westminster New Westminster—Coquitlam Vancouver East Vancouver Kingsway Conservative North Vancouver Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam Vancouver South West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country Liberal Vancouver Centre Vancouver Quadra