The Political RecordFederal electoral districtsNo. 59035British Columbia

Vancouver Centre

Vancouver-Centre

Vancouver Centre is a federal riding in British Columbia. Hedy Fry (Liberal, first elected to the House in 1997) represents Vancouver Centre. Hedy Fry (Liberal) held Vancouver Centre for the Liberals in the 2025 election by 13,487 votes (24.9 points), with 55.2% of the vote. Elaine Allan (Conservative) was second with 30.3%, on a turnout of 63.2% of 86,246 electors. Member as of 2026-11-01.

Fig. 1 — Vancouver Centre on the board, 2023 boundaries; the ridings next door as the House holds them on 2026-11-01. Open it on the board →

Who represents Vancouver Centre

Hedy Fry's piece from the board. Illustration after the official portrait © House of Commons.

Hedy Fry

Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre

Liberal

MP since 1997-06-02 · 10 terms

Chair, Fisheries and Oceans committee
Chair, Subcommittee on Agenda and Procedure
Fisheries and Oceans committee
Liaison committee

21 speeches in the 45th Parliament, most often on Interparliamentary Delegations.

Contact and office · House of Commons →

The 2025 result: Liberal hold

Share of the valid votes by candidate, Vancouver Centre, April 28, 2025

Shares of the 54,061 valid votes; a candidate under 1% is counted with the others. Source: Elections Canada, official voting results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
Hedy Fry	Liberal	29,855	55.2%
Elaine Allan	Conservative	16,368	30.3%
Avi Lewis	New Democratic	6,807	12.6%
Scott MacDonald	Green	757	1.4%
Others (2)		274	0.5%

Hedy Fry (Liberal) won Vancouver Centre on April 28, 2025 with 29,855 votes, 55.2% of the 54,061 valid votes. Elaine Allan (Conservative) was second with 16,368 (30.3%), 13,487 votes and 24.9 points behind.

Of the 54,061 valid votes, Hedy Fry (Liberal) took 55.2%, Elaine Allan (Conservative) 30.3%, Avi Lewis (New Democratic) 12.6% and Scott MacDonald (Green) 1.4%; the 2 other candidates took 0.5% together. Turnout was 63.2% of 86,246 electors: 54,483 ballots cast, 54,061 of them valid, for 6 candidates.

Since 2021

Against the 2021 result on these boundaries, the Liberals are up 14.9 (40.3% to 55.2%), the Conservatives up 8.6 (21.7% to 30.3%), the New Democrats down 17.5 (30.1% to 12.6%) and the Greens down 2.4 (3.8% to 1.4%), in points of the valid votes.

2021 is Elections Canada's transposition of that election onto the 2023 boundaries, not an election held on these lines.

Since 2004: held by the Liberals

The party first in Vancouver Centre at each general election, 2004 to 2025, on today's boundaries

2004Liberal40.3%by 8.0 points over the New Democrats
2006Liberal43.8%by 15.1 points over the New Democrats
2008Liberal34.5%by 9.4 points over the Conservatives
2011Liberal31.0%by 5.0 points over the Conservatives
2015Liberal56.1%by 36.1 points over the New Democrats
2019Liberal42.2%by 18.5 points over the New Democrats
2021Liberal40.3%by 10.2 points over the New Democrats
2025Liberal55.2%by 24.9 points over the Conservatives

Each election carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate to 2019, Elections Canada's transposition for 2021, the official result for 2025. Parties are counted as they ran.

The figures

Year	First	Share	Second	Margin (pts)	Basis
2004	Liberal	40.3%	New Democratic	8.0	carried, our estimate
2006	Liberal	43.8%	New Democratic	15.1	carried, our estimate
2008	Liberal	34.5%	Conservative	9.4	carried, our estimate
2011	Liberal	31.0%	Conservative	5.0	carried, our estimate
2015	Liberal	56.1%	New Democratic	36.1	carried, our estimate
2019	Liberal	42.2%	New Democratic	18.5	carried, our estimate
2021	Liberal	40.3%	New Democratic	10.2	transposed by Elections Canada
2025	Liberal	55.2%	Conservative	24.9	official result

The Liberals were first here at all eight general elections from 2004 to 2025, by an average of 15.9 points over the next party, short of the 20 a stronghold needs. In 2025 the Liberals took 55.2% of the vote here, 14.0 points above their average of 41.2% at the seven general elections from 2004 to 2021. The Liberals have been first here at every general election since 1993, eleven in a row.

On today's boundaries the Liberals were first here in 2004 (40.3%), 2006 (43.8%), 2008 (34.5%), 2011 (31.0%), 2015 (56.1%), 2019 (42.2%), 2021 (40.3%) and 2025 (55.2%), each with the share of the valid votes shown.

A stronghold is a party first at every general election since 2004, by an average of 20 points or more over the next party; held, first at every one; usually, first at all but one. By-elections are not counted. By this rule 23 of the 343 ridings are held without being strongholds. The results before 2021 are carried onto today's boundaries by where the riding's 2025 electors lived: our estimate, from the older boundaries of Taylor, Lucas, Kirby and Hewitt and the results in Sevi's "Who Runs?". 2021 is Elections Canada's transposition, and 2025 the official result.

Before 2025

2021 Liberal · Hedy Fry, by 5,004 votes (9.7 pts)
2019 Liberal · Hedy Fry, by 10,319 votes (18.5 pts)
2015 Liberal · Hedy Fry, by 20,936 votes (36.1 pts)

In the old Vancouver Centre on the 2013 boundaries, the riding most of the 2025 electors in today's Vancouver Centre lived in; Elections Canada's official results.

What kind of place Vancouver Centre is

Population: 115,9652021 census
Area: 17km²
Density: 6,821people per km²
Electors: 86,246on the 2025 lists

Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings

10th-smallest by area in Canada
17 km² · 10th of 343
2nd-smallest households
1.6 people per household, 2nd lowest of 343 (Average household size, 2021 census)
9th-fewest home owners
31.7% of households own their home, 9th lowest of 343 (Share of households that own their home, 2021 census)

Share of households that own their home is 31.7% — about 44 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.
highestlowest9th lowest of 343
Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 61.1% — about 2.2 times the median riding's 28.2%.
highestlowest11th highest of 343
Share who are immigrants is 40.6% — about 2.3 times the median riding's 17.3%.
highestlowest54th highest of 343
Median age is 38.0 — a little lower than the median riding's 41.6.
highestlowest66th lowest of 343
Median total household income is $75,500 — a little lower than the median riding's $84,000.
highestlowest98th lowest of 343
Share with French as a mother tongue is 2.4% — about 1.5 times the median riding's 1.6%.
highestlowest130th highest of 343

2021 Census on the 2023 boundaries; each rule places this riding among all 343. Density is the census population over the riding's area.

IDid this riding change?

Yes — it shrank. All of today's Vancouver Centre, its electors as well as its ground, comes from the old Vancouver Centre, but it is only 87% of that riding by area. The rest went elsewhere.

Share of today's electorsFormer riding

100.0%Vancouver Centre 99.8% of the area · 87% of it kept

0.0%Vancouver Quadra 0.2% of the area · 0.1% of it kept

How this is measured. Electors: the share of the current riding's 2025 ordinary-list electors who lived in each former riding, each 2025 polling division placed in the 2013 riding a point inside it falls in. Area: the share of the current riding's area that came from each former riding, by intersecting the 2013 and 2023 boundary files, and how much of the former riding that part was. Area is land, not population. Elections Canada counts 48 of 343 ridings as entirely unchanged.

IIThe 2025 result

Candidate	Party	Votes	%	2021	±
Hedy Fry	Liberal	29,855	55.2%	40.3%	+14.9
Elaine Allan	Conservative	16,368	30.3%	21.7%	+8.6
Avi Lewis	New Democratic	6,807	12.6%	30.1%	−17.5
Scott MacDonald	Green	757	1.4%	3.8%	−2.4

2 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote

Christopher Varga	People's	211	0.4%
Drew William McPherson	Independent	63	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

Third place vs. the margin

6,807 votes

New Democratic took fewer than the 13,487-vote margin.

Election-day polls won by others

44 of 181

No poll ended in a tie.

Fig. 2 — Each square is one election-day poll: ■ won by the Liberals (137) · ■ won by another party (44).

Flip the seatHypothetical

It would have taken 6,744 voters switching from Liberal to Conservative — 12.5% of the 54,061 valid votes, 12.4 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.

Voters who switch: 0013,488

Liberal29,855

Conservative16,368

Still Liberal by 13,487 votes. Actual margin: 13,487.

IVElection day versus advance

Only 39.5% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.

On election day the Liberals took 48.7%, the Conservatives 35.6%, the New Democrats 13.3% and the Greens 1.6%; in advance and special ballots, 59.5%, 26.8%, 12.1% and 1.2%, in that order.

Share of the valid votes by party, election-day polls against advance and special ballots, Vancouver Centre, April 28, 2025

Shares of the valid votes cast at election-day polls, and of those cast at advance polls, at mobile polls and by special ballot; the gap is the second less the first, in points. Source: Elections Canada, poll-by-poll results, the 2025 general election.

The figures

Party	Election day	Advance and special	Gap
Liberal	48.7%	59.5%	+10.8
Conservative	35.6%	26.8%	−8.8
New Democratic	13.3%	12.1%	−1.2
Green	1.6%	1.2%	−0.4

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.

VWhere it is

loading basemap…

Fig. 3 — Vancouver Centre and its 5 neighbouring ridings.

Sources and citation

"Vancouver Centre — federal riding profile and 2025 results."
The Political Record. https://politicalrecord.ca/riding/vancouver-centre/
Accessed 2026-11-10.

Results and transposition: Elections Canada. Boundaries: Elections Canada / Statistics Canada, Open Government Licence – Canada. Census: Statistics Canada 2021 Census. Member: House of Commons.

Figures reconcile to the certified national total of 19,641,663 votes. The member is as the House of Commons listed them on 2026-11-01. Page built 2026-11-10.