Abbotsford West

Abbotsford West is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008. It will came into effect in 2009, and was first be contested in the British Columbia general election, 2009.

Member of Legislative Assembly

On account of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term. Mike de Jong, British Columbia Liberal Party was re-elected in 1996, 2001 and 2005 to the Abbotsford-Mount Lehman riding. He was also elected in this new redistricted riding in the 2009 election.

Electoral history

B.C. General Election 2013: Abbotsford West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Mike de Jong	9,473	50.38
	New Democratic	Sukhi Dhami	5,530	29.41
	Conservative	Paul Redekopp	1,791	9.53
	Independent	Moe Gill	1,082	5.75
	Green	Stephen O'Shea	877	4.66
	Excalibur	Kerry-Lynn Osbourne	49	0.26
Total Valid Votes			18,802
Total Rejected Ballots
Turnout

B.C. General Election 2009 Abbotsford West
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	Liberal	Mike de Jong	8,992	55.81	-2.5
	NDP	Taranjit Purewal	5,106	31.69	+0.4
	Conservative	Dalbir Benipal	1,043	6.48	n/a
	Green	Karen Durant	970	6.02	n/a
Total			16,111	100.00%

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2009–2017)

North / Central	Cariboo-Chilcotin Cariboo North Nechako Lakes North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mackenzie Prince George-Valemount Skeena Stikine

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen Columbia River-Revelstoke Kamloops-North Thompson Kamloops-South Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Kootenay East Kootenay West Fraser-Nicola Nelson-Creston Penticton Shuswap Vernon-Monashee Westside-Kelowna

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Mission Abbotsford South Abbotsford West Chilliwack Chilliwack-Hope Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Fleetwood Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Deer Lake Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby-Lougheed Burnaby North Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam Port Moody-Coquitlam Powell River-Sunshine Coast Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-False Creek Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena Vancouver-West End West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

Vancouver Island	Alberni-Pacific Rim Comox Valley Cowichan Valley Esquimalt-Royal Roads Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-North Cowichan North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Parksville-Qualicum Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Swan Lake

See also:	Electoral boundary redistribution of 2008 List of British Columbia general elections 2013 general election Defunct districts

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