Burnaby—Kingsway

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Burnaby—Kingsway
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
LegislatureHouse of Commons
District created1987
District abolished1996
First contested1988
Last contested1993

Burnaby—Kingsway was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997.

This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Burnaby, North Vancouver—Burnaby and Vancouver Kingsway ridings.

It was abolished in 1996 when it was merged into Burnaby—Douglas riding.

For its entire history it was represented by New Democratic Party Member of Parliament (MP) Svend Robinson.

Members of Parliament[]

Parliament Years Member Party
Riding created from Burnaby, North Vancouver—Burnaby
and Vancouver Kingsway
34th  1988–1993     Svend Robinson New Democratic
35th  1993–1997
Riding dissolved into Burnaby—Douglas

Election results[]

1993 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
New Democratic Svend Robinson 18,287 33.94 -9.28
Liberal Kwangyul Peck 14,130 26.23 +4.01
Reform John Carpay 13,463 24.99 +22.32
Progressive Conservative Adele Haines 5,353 9.94 -20.06
National Daniel Fontaine 1,562 2.90 –
Natural Law Deborah Rubin 375 0.70 –
Libertarian Carlo Nigro 373 0.69 -0.30
Independent Poldi Meindl 130 0.24 +0.08
Commonwealth of Canada Mike Milkovich 117 0.22 –
Independent Byrun F. Tylor 50 0.09 –
Marxist–Leninist Joseph Theriault 39 0.07 –
Total valid votes 53,879 100.0  
New Democratic hold Swing -6.64
1988 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes %
New Democratic Svend Robinson 25,150 43.22
Progressive Conservative John Bitonti 17,455 30.00
Liberal Samuel Stevens 12,933 22.22
Reform John L. Soanes 1,552 2.67
Libertarian Mark J.T. Lane 575 0.99
Green Sunee Yuuho 231 0.40
Independent David John Bader 203 0.35
Independent Poldi Meindl 93 0.16
Total valid votes 58,192 100.0  
This riding was created from parts of Burnaby, North Vancouver—Burnaby and Vancouver Kingsway, which elected two New Democrats and one Progressive Conservative (North Vancouver—Burnaby) in the previous election. Svend Robinson was the incumbent from Burnaby.

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