Prince George-Mackenzie
 British Columbia electoral district | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
| MLA |
Conservative | ||
| District created | 2008 | ||
| First contested | 2009 | ||
| Last contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2006) | 45,379 | ||
| Area (km²) | 20,361.32 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 2.2 | ||
| Census division(s) | Regional District of Fraser-Fort George | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Prince George, Mackenzie | ||
Prince George-Mackenzie is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008. It came into effect upon the dissolution of the BC Legislature in April 2009, and was first contested in the 2009 provincial election.
Geography
[edit]As of the 2020 provincial election, Prince George-Mackenzie comprises the northern portion of the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, located in central British Columbia. The electoral district contains the community of Mackenzie and the northwestern portion of Prince George. The boundary line within the city of Prince George comes from the east following along the Fraser, and then the Nechako River to the John Hart Bridge where it goes south along Highway 97, west along Massey Drive, south along Ospika Boulevard until Ferry Avenue. The boundary then cuts west to just south of the University of Northern British Columbia before traveling south down Tyner Boulevard, then follows Highway 16 out of the city to the west.[1]
History
[edit]| Prince George-Mackenzie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| Riding created from Prince George North | ||||
| 39th | 2009–2013 | Pat Bell | Liberal | |
| 40th | 2013–2017 | Mike Morris | ||
| 41st | 2017–2020 | |||
| 42nd | 2020–2023 | |||
| 2023–2024 | United | |||
| 43rd | 2024–present | Kiel Giddens | Conservative | |
Election results
[edit]| 2024 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Kiel Giddens | |||||||
| New Democratic | Shar McCrory | |||||||
| Green | James Steidle | |||||||
| Unaffiliated | Rachael Weber | |||||||
| Total valid votes | – | |||||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered voters | ||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | ||||||||
| 2020 provincial election redistributed results[2] | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | % | ||
| Liberal | 51.7 | ||
| New Democratic | 33.6 | ||
| Green | 11.1 | ||
| 2020 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mike Morris | 8,543 | 50.80 | −6.32 | $30,276.67 | |||
| New Democratic | Joan Atkinson | 5,717 | 33.99 | +2.34 | $4,085.37 | |||
| Green | Catharine Kendall | 1,935 | 11.50 | +0.27 | $3,692.23 | |||
| Christian Heritage | Dee Kranz | 336 | 2.00 | – | $1,193.15 | |||
| Libertarian | Raymond Rodgers | 287 | 1.71 | – | $0.00 | |||
| Total valid votes | 16,818 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 150 | 0.88 | 0.11 | |||||
| Turnout | 16,968 | 49.06 | –8.38 | |||||
| Registered voters | 34,587 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | –4.33 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[3][4] | ||||||||
| 2017 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mike Morris | 10,725 | 57.12 | +1.54 | $49,947 | |||
| New Democratic | Bobby Deepak | 5,942 | 31.65 | -2.62 | $53,121 | |||
| Green | Hilary Crowley | 2,109 | 11.23 | +5.54 | $1,433 | |||
| Total valid votes | 18,776 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 146 | 0.77 | ||||||
| Turnout | 18,922 | 57.44 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[5] | ||||||||
| 2013 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Mike Morris | 10,524 | 55.58 | -0.47 | $168,600 | |||
| New Democratic | Bobby Deepak | 6,488 | 34.27 | -2.57 | $138,631 | |||
| Green | Karen McDowell | 1,077 | 5.69 | -1.42 | $3,465 | |||
| Conservative | Terry Rysz | 845 | 4.46 | - | $21,364 | |||
| Total valid votes | 18,934 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 165 | 0.86 | ||||||
| Turnout | 19,099 | 56.86 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[6] | ||||||||
| 2009 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Liberal | Pat Bell | 9,816 | 56.05 | $99,560 | ||||
| New Democratic | Tobias Lawrence | 6,452 | 36.84 | $111,514 | ||||
| Green | Kevin Creamore | 1,245 | 7.11 | $1,230 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 17,513 | 100 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 158 | 0.9 | ||||||
| Turnout | 17,671 | 54 | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Prince George-Mackenzie Electoral District" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
- ^ "Prince George-Mackenzie". 338Canada. Retrieved October 8, 2024.
- ^ Boegman, Anton (July 27, 2021). "42nd Election Report and Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC. pp. 264–266. Retrieved July 16, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Election Financing Reports". Elections BC. Retrieved February 6, 2021.
- ^ "Statement of Votes – 41st Provincial General Election – May 9, 2017" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved December 7, 2019.
- ^ "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
