New Westminster-Coquitlam: reshaped riding has been NDP stronghold
It’s a three-way race in the revamped New Westminster-Coquitlam riding with Ndellie Massey representing the Conservative Party, incumbent Jennifer Whiteside running for the BC NDP and Centennial Secondary teacher Maureen Curran campaigning for the B.C. Green Party.
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NDP incumbent Jennifer Whiteside
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Conservative Party candidate Ndellie Massey and Green Party candidate Maureen Curran
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The boundaries were altered for this election, essentially chipping off a piece of Coquitlam and affixing it to the former New Westminster riding.
Shaped vaguely like Frankenstein’s head, the top of the riding is wedged between North Road and Blue Mountain Street with Austin Avenue as the northernmost border.
The riding wraps around Blue Mountain Baptist Church and cuts along Brunette Avenue on the eastern side before meandering toward the Fraser River. The riding’s western border stretches into New Westminster up to Twentieth Street.
Riding history
NDP candidate Jennifer Whiteside won the New Westminster riding in 2020, taking slightly more than 60 percent of the vote.
New Westminster also went for the NDP in 2017, as incumbent Judy Darcy was re-elected with nearly 52 percent of the vote, largely mirroring the results from 2013.
NDP candidate Dawn Black also won the riding in 2009 with 56 percent of the vote.
The federal riding of New Westminster-Coquitlam also tilted toward the NDP, with Fin Donnelly narrowly defeating Conservative candidate Diana Dilworth in 2011.
Green Party candidates have seen strong support in recent elections in the provincial riding. After notching 8.3 percent of the vote in 2013, the Green Party garnered 25 percent of the vote in 2017.
Green Party candidate Cyrus Sy finished second with 19 percent of the vote in the 2020 election, slightly ahead of Liberal candidate Lorraine Brett, who notched 16.2 percent.
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