Vancouver Quadra

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Vancouver Quadra is a federal electoral district in the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia, Canada. It has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1949. The constituency bears the name of the Spanish explorer who surveyed the area in 1775, Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Within the boundaries of this riding are the University of British Columbia and the western portions of the affluent West Side of Vancouver. Voters within Vancouver Quadra have tended to elect centrist candidates, which is an exception to the province as a whole where politics has tended to be more polarized. Though the Liberals have held the seat since 1984, MPs tend to be on the right wing of the party. For example, the previous MP, Joyce Murray, was a cabinet minister in the centre-right British Columbia Liberal Party, which was unaffiliated with the federal Liberal party.

DemographicsEdit

This is the sixth wealthiest riding in Canada, with an average family income of over $145,000. As of 2006, this riding had 37% immigrants, most of whom are Chinese-Canadians. The province's largest university, the University of British Columbia, is situated in this riding. The major employer is the professional, scientific and technical service sector. The unemployment rate is 5.2%.<ref>Vancouver Quadra, CBC.ca, 2008.</ref> Nearly every single-family house in this riding is worth over a million dollars; the median house value is over 2 million dollars.Template:Citation needed

The Vancouver Quadra riding has a very high level of educational attainment; it has the highest percentage of people with a university certificate or degree in all of Canada (53.1%) and also tops the following educational attainment sub-categories:

Earned doctorate: 4.7%
Degree in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine or optometry: 2.5%
Bachelor's degree: 27.4%<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Panethnic groups in Vancouver Quadra (2011−2021)
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European Template:Efn	57,765	Template:Percentage	59,835	Template:Percentage	63,605	Template:Percentage
East Asian Template:Efn	33,805	Template:Percentage	31,615	Template:Percentage	26,990	Template:Percentage
South Asian	3,705	Template:Percentage	2,785	Template:Percentage	2,175	Template:Percentage
Middle Eastern Template:Efn	2,590	Template:Percentage	1,710	Template:Percentage	1,305	Template:Percentage
Southeast Asian Template:Efn	2,535	Template:Percentage	1,685	Template:Percentage	1,825	Template:Percentage
Indigenous	2,000	Template:Percentage	1,940	Template:Percentage	1,840	Template:Percentage
Latin American	1,700	Template:Percentage	1,295	Template:Percentage	870	Template:Percentage
African	860	Template:Percentage	605	Template:Percentage	575	Template:Percentage
OtherTemplate:Efn	2,095	Template:Percentage	1,270	Template:Percentage	1,135	Template:Percentage
Total responses	107,055	Template:Percentage	102,740	Template:Percentage	100,325	Template:Percentage
Total population	109,328	Template:Percentage	105,608	Template:Percentage	102,416	Template:Percentage
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According to the 2016 Canadian census:

Languages: 66.0% English, 1.6% French, 31.3% other, 1.1% multiple languages
Religions: 27.9% Protestant, 16.3% Catholic, 4.5% Buddhist, 4.2% Other Christian, 3.8% Jewish, 2.4% Christian Orthodox, 1.1% Muslim, 38.5% no religious affiliation
Average income: $46,991

GeographyEdit

The district includes the parts of the West Side of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia Endowment Lands.

HistoryEdit

The electoral district was created in 1947 from Vancouver East and Vancouver South ridings. It was a swing riding for most of its first four decades. However, in 1984, John Turner, then Prime Minister, unseated Progressive Conservative incumbent Bill Clarke even as Turner's Liberals suffered what was then the biggest seat loss in Canadian history. It was one of only two Liberal-held seats west of Ontario. The seat has stayed in Liberal hands ever since.

The 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution concluded that the electoral boundaries of Vancouver Quadra should be adjusted, and a modified electoral district of the same name will be contested in future elections.<ref name=report>Template:Citation</ref> The redefined Vancouver Quadra loses a portion of its current territory east of the Arbutus Corridor to the new district of Vancouver Granville. These new boundaries were legally defined in the 2013 representation order, which came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.<ref name=timeline>Template:Citation</ref>

Historical boundariesEdit

Members of ParliamentEdit

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Current member of ParliamentEdit

Its member of Parliament (MP) is Joyce Murray (Liberal), a former British Columbia cabinet minister and provincial Member of the Legislative Assembly. She was first elected in a March 2008 by-election, by a small margin. Murray was re-elected in the general elections of 2008, 2011 and 2015 with larger margins. She was again re-elected in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, albeit by reduced margins.

Election resultsEdit

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Party		Vote	%
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Template:Canadian party colour \|	Liberal	21,464	43.39
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Conservative	14,455	29.22
Template:Canadian party colour \|	New Democratic	9,593	19.39
Template:Canadian party colour \|	Green	2,950	5.96
Template:Canadian party colour \|	People's	1,004	2.03

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