# North Vancouver (federal electoral district)

North Vancouver is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.
Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed North Vancouver—Capilano.

## Demographics

Panethnic groups in North Vancouver (2011−2021) :
| Panethnic group | 2021 | 2021 | 2016 | 2016 | 2011 | 2011 |
| Panethnic group | Pop. | % | Pop. | % | Pop. | % |
| European | 78,535 | 64.42% | 78,165 | 68.64% | 78,055 | 71.92% |
| Middle Eastern | 13,460 | 11.04% | 9,545 | 8.38% | 7,885 | 7.27% |
| East Asian | 11,820 | 9.69% | 10,845 | 9.52% | 9,515 | 8.77% |
| Southeast Asian | 6,035 | 4.95% | 5,130 | 4.51% | 5,125 | 4.72% |
| South Asian | 4,220 | 3.46% | 4,105 | 3.6% | 3,035 | 2.8% |
| Indigenous | 2,685 | 2.2% | 2,580 | 2.27% | 2,335 | 2.15% |
| Latin American | 2,160 | 1.77% | 1,410 | 1.24% | 1,120 | 1.03% |
| African | 800 | 0.66% | 840 | 0.74% | 525 | 0.48% |
| Other | 2,210 | 1.81% | 1,255 | 1.1% | 930 | 0.86% |
| Total responses | 121,920 | 99.1% | 113,870 | 98.72% | 108,525 | 98.98% |
| Total population | 123,025 | 100% | 115,344 | 100% | 109,639 | 100% |
| Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries. |||||||
    According to the 2016 Canadian census; 2013 representation
Languages: 69.8% English, 7.7% Persian, 2.2% Tagalog, 2.1% Mandarin, 1.9% Korean, 1.8% French, 1.6% Spanish, 1.6% German, 1.5% Cantonese Religions (2011): 47.2% Christian (18.2% Catholic, 7.0% Anglican, 6.6% United Church, 1.6% Lutheran, 1.5% Presbyterian, 1.4% Christian Orthodox, 1.3% Baptist 9.6% Other), 6.3% Muslim, 42.5% No religion
Median income (2010): $39,040
Average income (2010): $58,194

## Geography

This district includes the entirety of the City of North Vancouver and the majority of the District of North Vancouver.

## History

This riding was created in 1987 from portions of North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano electoral districts.
The 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution concluded that the electoral boundaries of North Vancouver should be adjusted, and a modified electoral district of the same name will be contested in future elections. The redefined North Vancouver loses the eastern portion of its current territory to the new district of Burnaby North—Seymour, while its western boundary with West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country is adjusted to correspond to the boundaries between the District of North Vancouver, West Vancouver and the Capilano Indian Reserve. 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.
Following the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution, the riding will be replaced by the new riding of North Vancouver—Capilano. It will gain all of West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country south of the Trans-Canada Highway and east of 21 St, and lose the Lynn Valley and Lynmour areas to Burnaby North—Seymour. These changes will come into effect upon the calling of the 2025 Canadian federal election.

## Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party |
| North Vancouver Riding created from North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano |||||
| 34th | 1988–1993 | Chuck Cook | Progressive Conservative |
| 35th | 1993–1997 | Ted White | Reform |
| 36th | 1997–2000 | Ted White | Reform |
| 36th | 2000–2000 | Ted White | Alliance |
| 37th | 2000–2003 | Ted White | Alliance |
| 37th | 2003–2004 | Ted White | Conservative |
| 38th | 2004–2006 | Don Bell | Liberal |
| 39th | 2006–2008 | Don Bell | Liberal |
| 40th | 2008–2011 | Andrew Saxton | Conservative |
| 41st | 2011–2015 | Andrew Saxton | Conservative |
| 42nd | 2015–2019 | Jonathan Wilkinson | Liberal |
| 43rd | 2019–2021 | Jonathan Wilkinson | Liberal |
| 44th | 2021–present | Jonathan Wilkinson | Liberal |
North Vancouver, as well as surrounding North Shore ridings, typically elect right-leaning candidates in federal elections. For nearly 25 consecutive years between 1979 and 2004, North Vancouver and its predecessor, North Vancouver-Burnaby, were held by a member of the major "small-c" conservative party of the day. The stream was however interrupted in the 2004 general election, when outgoing North Vancouver (city) mayor Don Bell was able to swing the riding over to the Liberals, just narrowly defeating long-time incumbent Conservative MP Ted White. Bell was re-elected in the 2006 election (by less than 4% of the vote), though in neither of his two terms did the sitting parliament even make it to the halfway point of its five-year mandate before an election was held. In the 2008 election, North Vancouver businessman Andrew Saxton returned the riding to the Conservatives, winning a plurality of the vote (by less than 5% of the vote) and defeating the incumbent Don Bell.
Saxton served as parliamentary secretary to multiple cabinet ministers in the Conservative majority government, including Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance (Jim Flaherty). In the 2015 general election, amidst a climate of growing dissatisfaction with the government and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as well as the emergence of populous strategic voting, Liberal candidate Jonathan Wilkinson defeated Saxton by almost a 2-to-1 margin, and serves as parliamentary secretary to the minister of environment and climate change in the Liberal majority government in Canada's 43rd parliament.

## Election results
### North Vancouver—Capilano

Next Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes |
| | Liberal | Jonathan Wilkinson |
| | Conservative | Stephen Curran |
| | New Democratic | Tammy Bentz |
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | Total valid votes/Expense limit | Total valid votes/Expense limit |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters |
2021 federal election redistributed results :
| Party | Vote | % |
| Liberal | 24,447 | 44.69 |
| Conservative | 16,071 | 29.38 |
| New Democratic | 10,422 | 19.05 |
| Green | 2,335 | 4.27 |
| People's | 1,408 | 2.57 |
| Others | 18 | 0.03 |

### North Vancouver

vte2021 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Jonathan Wilkinson | 26,756 | 45.1 | +2.2 | $95,112.00 |
| | Conservative | Les Jickling | 16,671 | 28.1 | +1.2 | $113,640.04 |
| | New Democratic | Tammy Bentz | 11,750 | 19.8 | +3.4 | $20,351.82 |
| | Green | Archie Kaario | 2,598 | 4.4 | -8.1 | $11,600.97 |
| | People's | John Galloway | 1,545 | 2.6 | +1.3 | $0.00 |
| Total valid votes/Expense limit | Total valid votes/Expense limit | Total valid votes/Expense limit | 59,320 | 99.4 | – | $118,692.36 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 383 | 0.6 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 59,703 | 66.1 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 90,326 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | +0.5 |
| Source: Elections Canada |||||||
vte2019 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Jonathan Wilkinson | 26,979 | 42.87 | -13.78 | $98,189.08 |
| | Conservative | Andrew Saxton | 16,908 | 26.87 | -0.02 | none listed |
| | New Democratic | Justine Bell | 10,340 | 16.43 | +8.64 | $40,432.73 |
| | Green | George Orr | 7,868 | 12.50 | +4.19 | $39,810.86 |
| | People's | Azmairnin Jadavji | 835 | 1.33 | – | none listed |
| Total valid votes/expense limit | Total valid votes/expense limit | Total valid votes/expense limit | 62,930 | 99.45 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 349 | 0.55 | +0.21 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 63,279 | 71.20 | -4.57 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 88,874 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | -6.88 |
| Source: Elections Canada |||||||
vte2015 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Jonathan Wilkinson | 36,458 | 56.65 | +26.94 | $149,970.51 |
| | Conservative | Andrew Saxton | 17,301 | 26.88 | -20.67 | $149,776.24 |
| | Green | Claire Martin | 5,350 | 8.31 | +3.08 | $135,108.48 |
| | New Democratic | Carleen Thomas | 5,015 | 7.79 | -9.06 | $21,413.99 |
| | Libertarian | Ismet Yetisen | 136 | 0.21 | – | $1,942.47 |
| | Independent | Payam Azad | 94 | 0.15 | – | $22.40 |
| Total valid votes/expense limit | Total valid votes/expense limit | Total valid votes/expense limit | 64,354 | 99.66 | | $220,823.27 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 218 | 0.34 | – |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 64,572 | 75.77 | – |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 85,219 |
| | Liberal gain from Conservative | Liberal gain from Conservative | Swing | Swing | +23.80 |
| Source: Elections Canada |||||||
2011 federal election redistributed results :
| Party | Vote | % |
| Conservative | 23,923 | 47.56 |
| Liberal | 14,948 | 29.71 |
| New Democratic | 8,480 | 16.86 |
| Green | 2,632 | 5.23 |
| Others | 322 | 0.64 |
vte2011 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Andrew Saxton | 28,996 | 48.62 | +6.42 |
| | Liberal | Taleeb Noormohamed | 17,665 | 29.62 | -7.69 |
| | New Democratic | Michael Charrois | 9,617 | 16.13 | +6.71 |
| | Green | Greg Dowman | 3,004 | 5.04 | -5.75 |
| | Independent | Nick Jones | 350 | 0.59 | – |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 59,632 | 100.0 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 153 | 0.26 | -0.02 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 59,785 | 67.77 |
| Eligible voters | Eligible voters | Eligible voters | 88,216 |
| | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | Swing | +7.06 |
vte2008 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Conservative | Andrew Saxton | 24,371 | 42.20 | +5.43 | $88,610 |
| | Liberal | Don Bell | 21,551 | 37.31 | -5.03 | $88,697 |
| | Green | Jim Stephenson | 6,168 | 10.79 | +3.31 | $17,464 |
| | New Democratic | Michael Charrois | 5,417 | 9.42 | -3.77 | $6,664 |
| | Libertarian | Tunya Audain | 166 | 0.29 | – | |
| Total valid votes/expense limit | Total valid votes/expense limit | Total valid votes/expense limit | 57,673 | 100.0 | | $89,266 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 162 | 0.28 | +0.05 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 57,835 |
| | Conservative gain from Liberal | Conservative gain from Liberal | Swing | Swing | +5.23 |
vte2006 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Don Bell | 25,357 | 42.34 | +2.32 | $78,858 |
| | Conservative | Cindy Silver | 22,021 | 36.77 | +0.41 | $82,866 |
| | New Democratic | Sherry Shaghaghi | 7,903 | 13.19 | -2.67 | $13,797 |
| | Green | Jim Stephenson | 4,483 | 7.48 | +0.20 | $15,613 |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Michael Hill | 112 | 0.18 | +0.05 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 59,876 | 100.0 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 140 | 0.23 | -0.05 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 60,016 | 69.89 | +1.73 |
| | Liberal hold | Liberal hold | Swing | Swing | +0.96 |
vte2004 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Don Bell | 22,619 | 40.02 | +7.26 | $72,712 |
| | Conservative | Ted White | 20,548 | 36.36 | -20.61 | $60,651 |
| | New Democratic | John Nelson | 8,967 | 15.86 | +10.93 | $21,278 |
| | Green | Peggy Stortz | 4,114 | 7.28 | – | $3,241 |
| | Canadian Action | Andres Esteban Barker | 181 | 0.32 | -1.24 | $400 |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Michael Hill | 77 | 0.13 | -0.01 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 56,506 | 100.0 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 158 | 0.28 | -0.01 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 56,664 | 68.16 | -0.64 |
| | Liberal gain from Alliance | Liberal gain from Alliance | Swing | Swing | +13.94 |
| Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election. |||||||
vte2000 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Alliance | Ted White | 27,920 | 49.87 | +1.01 | $60,178 |
| | Liberal | Bill Bell | 18,343 | 32.76 | -1.18 | $50,482 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Laurence Putnam | 3,975 | 7.10 | +2.16 | $1,278 |
| | New Democratic | Sam Schechter | 2,760 | 4.93 | -4.22 | $2,769 |
| | Marijuana | Tunya Audain | 1,008 | 1.80 | – | $23 |
| | Canadian Action | Diana Jewell | 877 | 1.56 | +1.20 | $547 |
| | Independent | Dallas Collis | 760 | 1.35 | +0.70 | $1,134 |
| | Independent | Rusty Corben | 253 | 0.45 | – | |
| | Marxist–Leninist | Michael Hill | 80 | 0.14 | – | $33 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 55,976 | 100.0 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 164 | 0.29 | -0.01 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 56,140 | 68.80 | -3.03 |
| | Alliance hold | Alliance hold | Swing | Swing | +1.10 |
| Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election. |||||||
vte1997 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures |
| | Reform | Ted White | 27,075 | 48.86 | +8.85 | $63,443 |
| | Liberal | Warren Kinsella | 18,806 | 33.94 | +2.87 | $62,704 |
| | New Democratic | Martin Stuible | 5,075 | 9.15 | +2.77 | $11,938 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Dennis Prouse | 2,740 | 4.94 | -11.00 | $14,159 |
| | Green | Peggy Stortz | 982 | 1.77 | – | $173 |
| | Independent | Dallas Lindley Collins | 365 | 0.65 | – | |
| | Canadian Action | Wayne Mulherin | 203 | 0.36 | – | $1,359 |
| | Natural Law | Ken Chawkin | 162 | 0.29 | -0.59 | |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 55,408 | 100.0 |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 167 | 0.30 |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 55,575 | 71.83 |
| | Reform hold | Reform hold | Swing | Swing | +2.99 |
vte1993 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Reform | Ted White | 20,407 | 40.01 | +31.09 |
| | Liberal | Mobina Jaffer | 15,951 | 31.27 | +4.06 |
| | Progressive Conservative | Will McMartin | 7,900 | 15.49 | -22.16 |
| | New Democratic | Graeme Bowbrick | 3,254 | 6.38 | -17.48 |
| | National | Dallas Collis | 2,234 | 4.38 | – |
| | Green | Arne B. Hansen | 534 | 1.05 | +0.11 |
| | Natural Law | Bradford Cooke | 447 | 0.88 | – |
| | Independent | Clarke L. Ashley | 144 | 0.28 | – |
| | Libertarian | Anthony Jasich | 116 | 0.23 | – |
| | Commonwealth of Canada | Paul Fraleigh | 22 | 0.04 | – |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 51,009 | 100.0 |
| | Reform gain from Progressive Conservative | Reform gain from Progressive Conservative | Swing | Swing | +13.52 |
vte1988 Canadian federal election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Progressive Conservative | Chuck Cook | 18,515 | 37.64 |
| | Liberal | James Hatton | 13,382 | 27.21 |
| | New Democratic | Donna Stewart | 11,735 | 23.86 |
| | Reform | Ron Gamble | 4,387 | 8.92 |
| | Green | Glen Ash | 462 | 0.94 |
| | Rhinoceros | Richard "The Troll" Schaller | 323 | 0.66 |
| | Libertarian | Tunya Audain | 225 | 0.46 |
| | Communist | Betty Griffin | 78 | 0.16 |
| | Independent | Brian Smith | 49 | 0.10 |
| | Independent | Barrie A. Hewer | 30 | 0.06 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 49,186 | 100.0 |
| This riding was created from parts of North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano, both of which elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election. Chuck Cook was the incumbent from North Vancouver—Burnaby. |||||||