New Democratic · first elected 2015-10-19 · 4 terms
287 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Budget 2025 Implementation Act, No. 1.
IDid this riding change?
Essentially no. Today's Courtenay—Alberni covers almost exactly the same ground as the Courtenay—Alberni riding it replaced.
How this is measured. Share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files. It is area, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.
IIThe 2025 result
New Democratic hold
Elected
Gord Johns
New Democratic
31,617
39.6% of valid votes
Margin
3,589
votes · +4.5 pts
Runner-up
Kris McNichol
Conservative
28,028
35.1% of valid votes
New Democratic 39.6% · Conservative 35.1% · Liberal 22.7% · Green 1.7%
Turnout73.8% of 108,515 electors
Candidate
Party
Votes
%
2021
±
Gord Johns
New Democratic
31,617
39.6%
42.8%
−3.2
Kris McNichol
Conservative
28,028
35.1%
31.2%
+3.9
Brian Cameron
Liberal
18,078
22.7%
13.6%
+9.1
Chris Markevich
Green
1,352
1.7%
7.0%
−5.3
3 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote
Thomas Gamble
People's
427
0.5%
Teresa Knight
Other
195
0.2%
Jesse Musial
Other
69
0.1%
The 2021 column is Elections Canada's official transposition of the 2021 result onto these 2023 boundaries. ± is the change in each party's share. It is not "swing": with four or more competitive parties there is no single pair to swing between.
IIIHow close was it, really
Swing needed to flip
2.3 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
18,078 votes
Liberal took more than the 3,589-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.
Election-day polls won by others
125 of 239
6 polls ended in an exact tie.
Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the New Democratics (108) · ■ won by another party (125) · ▨ tied (6).
Flip the seatHypothetical
It would have taken 1,795 voters switching from New Democratic to Conservative — 2.3% of the 79,766 valid votes, 2.3 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.
New Democratic31,617
Conservative28,028
Still New Democratic by 3,589 votes. Actual margin: 3,589.
IVElection day versus advance
Only 49.0% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.
Election dayAdvance & specialGap
New Democratic41.3%38.1%−3.2
Conservative36.1%34.2%−1.9
Liberal19.4%25.8%+6.4
Green2.2%1.3%−0.9
An association, not a cause. Voters who cast ballots before election day differed from those who turned out on the day. It does not say why. There is no poll-level turnout figure on this page: the elector count on a polling division includes people who voted in advance and were counted elsewhere.
VWhat kind of place this is
Median total household income is $73,000 — a little lower than the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest81st lowest of 343
Median age is 54.0 — about 1.3 times the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest6th highest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 21.4% — about 76 percent of the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest112th lowest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 14.1% — about 82 percent of the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest156th lowest of 343
Share of households that own their home is 76.2% — a little higher than the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest106th highest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 1.6% — about the same as the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest165th highest of 343
2021 Census, keyed to the 2023 representation order. Comparisons are against the median riding, not Canada as a whole. Each rule places this riding among all 343.
VIWhere it is
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Fig. 3 — Courtenay—Alberni and its 4 neighbouring ridings.
Oldest median ageMost candidates on the ballot in British ColumbiaBoundaries unchanged in 2023
One of 343The Political Record
A card exists for every one of the 343 ridings.
Every figure on it is the figure on this page: the 2025 result and margin, turnout, the 2021 census population, the area, and the distinctions ranked against all 343 ridings. The portrait is an illustration after the official House of Commons photograph.
