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Vancouver South

2008 Results

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On the north shore of Fraser Arm and the Fraser River, this riding contains that part of Vancouver bounded by the city's eastern limit, Tyne Street, School Avenue and east of Granville Street. It stretches between 41st Avenue West and 41st Avenue East in the north and the southern border of Vancouver in the south.

Sixty per cent of the people in this riding are immigrants, according tojavascript:editPlacements() the 2006 census. Chinese-Canadians make up 45 per cent of the population, and 13 per cent are Indian. Just 29 per cent of residents list English as their mother tongue.

The major sources of employment are the service sector, retail trade and manufacturing. Almost 30 per cent of residents over age 25 hold a university certificate or degree. The average family income is $71,673 and the unemployment rate is 6.3 per cent.

The riding of Vancouver South was established in 1914. In 1996, Vancouver South-Burnaby was created by combining nearly two-thirds of Vancouver South with a third of New Westminster-Burnaby. In 2004, the riding's name was changed to Vancouver South; it lost about one-third of its previous population while adding 25,435 people from Vancouver Quadra and 11,527 from Vancouver Kingsway.

Population: 120,284 (2006 census; an increase of 6.4% since 2001)

Political History

Former B.C. premier Ujjal Dosanjh held on to this seat for the Liberals in 2006, comfortably defeating Conservative Tarlok Sablok. Dosanjh first won here in 2004 after supporters of Prime Minister Paul Martin squeezed out incumbent Herb Dhaliwal for the Liberal nomination. Dosanjh served as minister of health in Martin's cabinet.

Dhaliwal held this seat from 1993 to 2004. His 2000 win over the Canadian Alliance's Ron Jack was by 2,321 votes. Dhaliwal served as minister of national revenue, fisheries and oceans and natural resources.

For the 21 years before Dhaliwal, Conservative John Fraser was MP. Fraser served as minister of environment, minister of fisheries and Speaker of the House of Commons.

Before Fraser, Liberal Arthur Laing was MP from 1962 to 1972. He held several cabinet posts and was appointed to the Senate in 1972.