The Political Record · Federal electoral districts
Vancouver East
Vancouver-Est
Federal riding · BC · No. 59036 · 2023 representation order
- Member
- Jenny Kwan New Democratic
- 2025 result
- New Democratic hold by 4,658 votes
- Turnout
- 62.7% of 91,705 electors
- Population
- 118,675 2021 census
- Area
- 26 km²
- Figures as of
- 2026-09-25
Distinctions · ranked against all 343 ridings
- Boundaries unchanged in 2023Covers the same ground as its predecessor · one of 59 of 343 by area
- Area, smallest first26 km² · 26th of 343 in Canada
- Turnout, lowest first62.7% of 91,705 electors voted · 45th of 343 in Canada
In brief
Illustration after: © House of Commons
Member of Parliament
Jenny Kwan
IDid this riding change?
Essentially no. Today's Vancouver East covers almost exactly the same ground as the Vancouver East 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
Jenny Kwan
New Democratic
24,945
43.6% of valid votes
Margin
4,658
votes · +8.1 pts
Runner-up
Mark Wiens
Liberal
20,287
35.5% of valid votes
New Democratic 43.6% · Liberal 35.5% · Conservative 17.8% · Green 1.9%
Turnout62.7% of 91,705 electors
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | 2021 | ± |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jenny Kwan | New Democratic | 24,945 | 43.6% | 55.8% | −12.2 |
| Mark Wiens | Liberal | 20,287 | 35.5% | 19.6% | +15.9 |
| Lita Cabal | Conservative | 10,162 | 17.8% | 10.8% | +7.0 |
| Nikida Steel | Green | 1,099 | 1.9% | 7.6% | −5.7 |
2 further candidates, each under 1% of the vote
| Kimball Cariou | Other | 329 | 0.6% |
| Meghan Emily Murphy | People's | 329 | 0.6% |
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
4.0 pts
Half the margin: the share that would have had to move from first to second.
Third place vs. the margin
10,162 votes
Conservative took more than the 4,658-vote margin. True in 100 of 343 ridings in 2025.
Election-day polls won by others
79 of 204
3 polls ended in an exact tie.
Flip the seatHypothetical
It would have taken 2,330 voters switching from New Democratic to Liberal — 4.1% of the 57,151 valid votes, 4.0 points — to change the result. No ballot was cast this way; this only moves votes between the top two.
New Democratic24,945
Liberal20,287
Still New Democratic by 4,658 votes. Actual margin: 4,658.
IVElection day versus advance
Only 52.8% of this riding's votes were cast at election-day polls. The rest were advance or special ballots.
Election dayAdvance & specialGap
New Democratic41.1%46.5%+5.4
Liberal35.0%36.1%+1.1
Conservative20.6%14.6%−6.0
Green1.9%1.9%+0.0
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 $72,000 — a little lower than the median riding's $84,000.highestlowest73rd lowest of 343
- Median age is 39.2 — a little lower than the median riding's 41.6.highestlowest96th lowest of 343
- Share aged 25-64 with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46.1% — about 1.6 times the median riding's 28.2%.highestlowest59th highest of 343
- Share who are immigrants is 33.7% — about 1.9 times the median riding's 17.3%.highestlowest84th highest of 343
- Share of households that own their home is 39.4% — about 55 percent of the median riding's 71.4%.highestlowest19th lowest of 343
- Share with French as a mother tongue is 1.7% — a little higher than the median riding's 1.6%.highestlowest158th 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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The card
No. 59036BC · 2025
Vancouver East
Jenny Kwan
- Result
- New Democratic hold by 4,658
- Turnout
- 62.7%
- Population
- 118,675
- Area
- 26 km²
Boundaries unchanged in 2023Area, smallest firstTurnout, lowest first
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