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MLA · BC PROVINCIAL 2026
# Langford-Highlands.
6 candidates, one seat.
This district elects one MLA. Voters mark one name on Saturday, October 24, 2026, and the candidate with the most votes wins the seat.
Langford-Highlands is a provincial electoral district on southern Vancouver Island, in Greater Victoria. It takes in the City of Langford and the District of Highlands, together with Goldstream and Gowlland Tod Provincial Parks. The 2021 census counted 49,050 people in it, and the Electoral Boundaries Commission gives its area as 86 square kilometres. Its name first appears on the 2024 ballot.
## The candidates
In alphabetical order
[MLA · Langford-Highlands**No party affiliation**Alex Thurlborn
On the official list. Research to come.Explore the profile ](https://voche.me/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/alex-thurlborn) [MLA · Langford-Highlands**Christian Heritage Party of BC**Christian McCay
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- People, 2021 census
- 49,050
- Area
- 86 km²
- Registered voters, 2024
- 37,389
- Turnout, 2024
- 59.08%
- Median age
- 38.4
- Median household income, 2020
- $94,000
THE DISTRICT
## Where Langford-Highlands is
86 km² · 49,050 people
Langford-Highlands lies on southern Vancouver Island in Greater Victoria. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says the district consists of the City of Langford and the District of Highlands, together with Goldstream and Gowlland Tod Provincial Parks, and that its boundaries follow the municipal borders of Langford and Highlands. The commission gives the district an area of 86 square kilometres and a population of 49,110, which is 8.7% below the average district. The Highlands Official Community Plan gives the District of Highlands an area of 3,745 hectares.
The land holds lakes and hills. The City of Langford's parks page names four lakes in the city: Langford Lake, Glen Lake, Florence Lake and Lake Ida Anne. It places Glen Lake at the tip of the Happy Valley neighbourhood and describes the Ed Nixon Trail, which runs 4.5 kilometres out and back along the bank of Langford Lake. Goldstream Provincial Park covers 477 hectares, and BC Geographical Names puts Mount Finlayson on the east side of the head of Finlayson Arm, in that park. Mount Work Regional Park, which the Capital Regional District places in Highlands and Saanich, has entrances on Ross-Durrance Road and Munn Road in the Highlands.
The City's 2025 annual report names Veterans Memorial Parkway as Highway No. 14. The Capital Regional District says the E&N Rail Trail, a paved path of 13.5 kilometres that follows the old railway line, runs through Langford and lists Veterans Memorial Way and Jacklin Road as its access points there. Mill Hill Regional Park, on Atkins Avenue in Langford, has a trail on its east side that joins Thetis Lake Regional Park across the Trans-Canada Highway. Highlands Council meets at the Community Hall at 729 Finlayson Arm Road.
- Langford
- Highlands
- Goldstream
- Goldstream Village
- Happy Valley
Sources: [British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/BCEBC-Final-Report-April-3-2023.pdf), [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-02/277%20-%20OCP%202007_Consolidated_Schedule%20A_to%20Bylaw%20418_202501131717224860.pdf), [City of Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/leisure/parks-outdoor-recreation/parks-lakes/), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/12734.html), [Capital Regional District (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/mount-work-regional-park), [City of Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/COL_12139_2025_Annual_Report_FINAL_DIGITAL.pdf), [Capital Regional District (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/en-rail-trail), [Capital Regional District (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/mill-hill-regional-park), [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-06/2024%20Annual%20Report%20-%20FINAL_5.pdf)
HISTORY
## The history of the area
Checked Thursday, October 8, 2026
### Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories
The City of Langford's 2025 annual report opens with a land acknowledgement. It names the traditional territories of the Coast Salish, specifically Xwsepsum (Esquimalt), Lekwungen (Songhees), Sc’ianew (Beecher Bay) and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, represented by the Tsartlip, Pauquachin, Tsawout, Tseycum and Malahat Nations. The District of Highlands' 2024 annual report names the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations W̱JOȽEȽP (Tsartlip), BOḰEĆEN (Pauquachin), SȾÁUTW̱ (Tsawout) and W̱SIḴEM (Tseycum), the Songhees and Xwsepsum (Esquimalt) Nations, and the Hul’q’umi’num’-speaking MÁLEXEȽ (Malahat) Nation. The Highlands Official Community Plan adds that a 2009 map of the District places all of it in the territory of the Wsanec (Saanich Nation), the southeast in Lekwungen territory, and the full length of Finlayson Arm in Malahat territory.
Several of these Nations describe their own places on their websites. Tsartlip First Nation, which writes its name W̱JOȽEȽP, says its land on the Saanich Peninsula went south as far as PKOLS (Mount Douglas) and from there across to W̱QENNELEȽ (Mt. Finlayson) and SELE₭TEȽ (Goldstream). Malahat Nation, which writes its name MÁLEXEŁ, calls itself one of the five W̱SÁNEĆ Nations and says it has two reserves on the western shore of Saanich Inlet. Pauquachin First Nation lists Goldstream (Indian Reserve #13) among its three reserves in the Saanich Inlet basin and says it shares that reserve with the Malahat, Tsartlip, Tsawout and Tseycum First Nations for traditional fishing. The Esquimalt Nation gives its traditional name as Xʷsepsəm and lists Xʷaymiɬ (Colwood/Langford) among the Lekwungen places. The Songhees home page names the Nation's people as the lək̓ʷəŋən People.
BC Parks says Goldstream Provincial Park lies on traditional fishing grounds of local First Nations. It says First Nation peoples continue to use areas of Gowlland Tod Provincial Park for medicinal, ceremonial and spiritual purposes. The Highlands Heritage Task Force wrote in 2011 that the Jocelyn Hill landscape inside Gowlland Tod Park is valued for its traditional use by First Nations.
Sources: [City of Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/COL_12139_2025_Annual_Report_FINAL_DIGITAL.pdf), [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-06/2024%20Annual%20Report%20-%20FINAL_5.pdf), [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-02/277%20-%20OCP%202007_Consolidated_Schedule%20A_to%20Bylaw%20418_202501131717224860.pdf), [Tsartlip First Nation (W̱JOȽEȽP) (opens in a new tab)](https://www.tsartlip.com/), [Malahat Nation (opens in a new tab)](https://malahatnation.com/), [Pauquachin First Nation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.pauquachin.ca/traditional-territories), [Esquimalt Nation (Xʷsepsəm) (opens in a new tab)](https://esquimaltnation.ca/?p=147), [Songhees Nation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.songheesnation.ca/), [BC Parks (opens in a new tab)](https://bcparks.ca/goldstream-park/), [BC Parks (opens in a new tab)](https://bcparks.ca/gowlland-tod-park/), [District of Highlands, Heritage Task Force (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-11/HTF%20Register%20report%20final_201306031033242952.pdf)
### Hudson's Bay Company names and the Goldstream gold, 1851 to 1864
BC Geographical Names says Langford Lake was named after Captain Edward E. Langford (1809 to 1895), a former officer of the 73rd Regiment who arrived in Victoria with his wife and five daughters in May 1851. He had been hired to manage the Esquimalt farm of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, a subsidiary of the Hudson's Bay Company, and he returned to England in 1861. The lake name is on J.D. Pemberton's 1855 map of the south-eastern districts of Vancouver Island, which was prepared for the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Geographic Board of Canada adopted it on 30 June 1911.
Finlayson Arm and Mount Finlayson carry the name of Roderick Finlayson of the Hudson's Bay Company. BC Geographical Names records that he was born in Scotland in 1818, arrived in Victoria in 1843 and took charge of the fort in 1844. The same office puts Mount Finlayson on the east side of the head of the arm, in Goldstream Provincial Park. It says Goldstream was named in 1858, when Peter Leech found gold-bearing gravel in the stream. His find started a small gold rush, and by 1864 upwards of 300 men were working on the Goldstream River. BC Parks says old mining shafts and tunnels are all that remain of that gold rush.
Sources: [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/8841.html), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/12734.html), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/12732.html), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/50510.html), [BC Parks (opens in a new tab)](https://bcparks.ca/goldstream-park/)
### The railway and the post offices, 1883 to 1983
The Island Corridor Foundation says the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway was incorporated on 27 September 1883 by Sir Robert Dunsmuir of Victoria. Construction began on 30 April 1884. On 13 August 1886 Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald drove the last spike, which completed a line of 115 kilometres from Esquimalt to Nanaimo, and in 1888 the line was extended to Victoria.
Two post offices in the district date from the same years. BC Geographical Names records that the Goldstream Post Office opened on 1 May 1886, and that the 1930 edition of the BC Gazetteer, a published list of the province's places, listed Goldstream as a station on the railway just west of Langford Lake. The Langford Station Post Office opened on 1 July 1911. The 1930 Gazetteer listed Langford Station as both a post office and a railway station. A National Defence map sheet of 1 May 1934 listed the settlement as Langford, the post office name was removed in the 1973 supplement to the Gazetteer, and Langford became a community on 31 January 1983.
Sources: [Island Corridor Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.islandrail.ca/?p=51), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/50510.html), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/8837.html)
### Homesteads and a one-room school in the Highlands, 1883 to 1916
The Highlands Official Community Plan, the District's long-term plan for land use, says the area was first surveyed before 1864, when it was part of the Colony of Vancouver Island and the Colony of British Columbia's Gazette referred to the Highland Land District. The land was generally surveyed into parcels of 160 acres. The first land claims, which the plan calls pre-emptions, went to John Stewart (Stewart Mountain Road) and John Scafe (Scafe Hill) in 1883, the same year Caleb Pike homesteaded Section 35. The first homesteaders fed themselves from their farms and sold some produce in Victoria, a long day's journey there and back by horse and buggy. By the early 1900s some residents added to their incomes by selling trees for logging, and by 1916 most land had been pre-empted.
The Highlands Heritage Task Force wrote in September 2011 that Caleb Pike built the squared-log Caleb Pike House in 1883 with his two teenage sons. Pike lived there with his two sons and three daughters. After he died in 1888, his sons Henry and Charlie farmed together for twenty years, raising sheep and a few cattle and selling eggs, milk and vegetables. The house was restored in 1983 as a community centre, and the report says it has been the main meeting place for social and cultural events and official meetings since the District was incorporated in 1993. The Canadian Register of Historic Places lists the house within Caleb Pike Heritage Park at 1589 Millstream Road, formally recognized on 2 December 2013.
The plan names a school district as the first formal organization in the Highlands. It built a one-room schoolhouse in 1893, which was reconstructed at Caleb Pike Heritage Park in 2004.
Sources: [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-02/277%20-%20OCP%202007_Consolidated_Schedule%20A_to%20Bylaw%20418_202501131717224860.pdf), [District of Highlands, Heritage Task Force (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-11/HTF%20Register%20report%20final_201306031033242952.pdf), [Canadian Register of Historic Places (opens in a new tab)](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=20666)
### Lime, copper, logging and trails in the Highlands, 1887 to the 1950s
A lime kiln at 1980 Millstream Road, in front of the District's municipal office, was in operation between 1887 and 1907. The Heritage Task Force report explains that burning limestone made quick-lime, a part of the plaster and mortar used in early buildings, and that the kiln gave work to Highlands pioneers. On Munn Road, two exploratory copper mine shafts, one horizontal and one vertical, date from the early 1900s. A 2 centimetre drill hole in the back wall of the horizontal shaft led the report to conclude that miners worked with hand steel and black powder. At Hazlitt Creek, the concrete remains of a steam boiler mark a sawmill that likely operated between 1921 and 1924.
Roads followed the farms and the logging. The report says Frederick Charles Corry, a retired British Army engineer, was hired in 1918 by the provincial government to lead a crew building the road now called Millstream Lake Road and Ross Durrance Road, from the northern Highlands to the Interurban Railway. The report dates Corry Road, which Corry also coordinated, to circa 1920. It cut the distance between what are now Munn Road and Ross Durrance Road from 8 kilometres to 2 kilometres. Vehicles last used it in the 1980s. The Official Community Plan says forestry was the main economic activity in the Highlands until the 1950s and that most of the old-growth trees were gone by then.
Sources: [District of Highlands, Heritage Task Force (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-11/HTF%20Register%20report%20final_201306031033242952.pdf), [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-02/277%20-%20OCP%202007_Consolidated_Schedule%20A_to%20Bylaw%20418_202501131717224860.pdf)
### Goldstream, Mount Work, Mill Hill and Gowlland Tod parks, 1958 to 1995
BC Parks says the Greater Victoria Water Board gave the land of Goldstream Provincial Park to the people of British Columbia in 1958, and the City of Langford's parks page gives the park's established date as 26 June 1958. BC Parks adds that land was designated in 1994 and 1996 through the Commonwealth Nature Legacy and Crown land additions, and that Mount Finlayson joined the park in 1994. The Capital Regional District lists 1970 as the year Mount Work Regional Park was established and 1981 for Mill Hill Regional Park. It gives Mount Work 743 hectares and Mill Hill 71.33 hectares.
BC Parks says Gowlland Tod Provincial Park was established in 1995 under the Commonwealth Heritage Legacy Program, which was created to mark the XV Commonwealth Games held in Victoria in 1994. The park covers more than 1,200 hectares and came from a partnership of provincial and local governments, organizations and companies. The Highlands Heritage Task Force names the Gowlland Foundation as a group that was instrumental in the creation of the park. The Official Community Plan gives parkland as 38% of the District's land in 2012, which is just under 1,450 hectares, and 10% at incorporation in 1993, both as approximate figures.
Sources: [BC Parks (opens in a new tab)](https://bcparks.ca/goldstream-park/), [City of Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/leisure/parks-outdoor-recreation/parks-lakes/), [Capital Regional District (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/mount-work-regional-park), [Capital Regional District (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/mill-hill-regional-park), [BC Parks (opens in a new tab)](https://bcparks.ca/gowlland-tod-park/), [District of Highlands, Heritage Task Force (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-11/HTF%20Register%20report%20final_201306031033242952.pdf), [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-02/277%20-%20OCP%202007_Consolidated_Schedule%20A_to%20Bylaw%20418_202501131717224860.pdf)
### Two municipalities and a new downtown, 1967 to 2025
The Highlands District Ratepayers Association, now the Highlands District Community Association, was incorporated in 1967 to give residents a voice in land use planning. The Province gave up its planning role for the Highlands when the Capital Regional District was established in 1969. The regional district's board adopted the first plan for the Highlands and Willis Point in 1981, and that plan marked a development reserve area of 1,360 hectares in the southwest of the Highlands for a new urban community. The District of Highlands was established effective 7 December 1993. After a 1995 survey of residents called Dreams and Decisions, the 1997 Official Community Plan placed protection of the natural environment first among its goals.
BC Geographical Names records that Langford was incorporated as a district municipality on 8 December 1992, re-incorporated as a city effective 1 December 2003, and given extended boundaries by letters patent on 8 March 2017. In downtown Langford, the City and the Island Corridor Foundation opened the first phase of The Langford Station at 720 Station Avenue on 20 May 2022, with six artist studios, six business incubators and a community arts workshop in retrofitted shipping containers. The City adopted a new Official Community Plan on 25 June 2025, written for a population growing to 100,000 residents. In September 2025 the John Horgan Campus opened in Langford's Goldstream Village neighbourhood, where the University of Victoria works with Royal Roads University and Camosun College. The City's annual report also names the Justice Institute of British Columbia and School District 62 among the partners.
Sources: [District of Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-02/277%20-%20OCP%202007_Consolidated_Schedule%20A_to%20Bylaw%20418_202501131717224860.pdf), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/41023.html), [BC Geographical Names Office (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/8837.html), [City of Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/langford-station-a-new-beginning/), [City of Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/city-of-langford-adopts-new-official-community-plan/), [University of Victoria (opens in a new tab)](https://www.uvic.ca/campus/john-horgan-campus/index.php), [City of Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/COL_12139_2025_Annual_Report_FINAL_DIGITAL.pdf)
THE SEAT
## Who has held the seat
Legislative Assembly records, 41st Parliament onward
Langford-Highlands first appears on the 2024 ballot. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report recommended the name, among several for Vancouver Island, and proposed adding a new electoral district in the fast-growing Langford area to create room for anticipated growth. The report describes the district as the City of Langford and the District of Highlands with Goldstream and Gowlland Tod Provincial Parks, and gives it a population of 49,110, which is 8.7% below the average district. Elections BC's conversion table counts 53 voting areas in the district and lists Langford-Juan de Fuca (53 voting areas) and Esquimalt-Metchosin (1) as the 2017 to 2024 districts that overlap it.
In 2024 Ravi Parmar of the BC NDP won with 11,444 votes (51.87%), ahead of Mike Harris of the Conservative Party with 8,251 (37.4%) and Erin Cassels of the BC Green Party with 2,368 (10.73%). Turnout was 59.08% of 37,389 registered voters. The BC government's biography of Parmar says he is the Minister of Forests and Deputy Government House Leader, that he was first elected in a 2023 by-election to succeed former premier John Horgan in Langford-Juan de Fuca, and that he was re-elected in 2024 in the new district.
Elections BC's results show how Langford-Juan de Fuca voted before the change. John Horgan of the BC NDP won it in 2017 with 13,224 votes (52.75%) and in 2020 with 18,073 votes (67.89%). At the 2023 by-election Parmar won with 7,279 votes (53.39%), ahead of Mike Harris of the Conservative Party with 2,702 (19.82%), Camille Currie of the BC Green Party with 2,405 (17.64%), Elena Lawson of BC United with 1,173 and Tyson Riel Strandlund of the Communist Party of BC with 74.
Sources: [British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/BCEBC-Final-Report-April-3-2023.pdf), [Elections BC (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/fb26db04-780c-4229-a147-da4fd5311d36), [Elections BC (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935), [Province of British Columbia (opens in a new tab)](https://news.gov.bc.ca/ministries/forests/biography)
Members for Langford-Highlands
| Parliament | It sat | Member | Elected as | Party on the legislature’s record |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 43rd | 2025 to 2026 | Ravi Parmar | BC NDP | BC NDP |
Members for Langford-Juan de Fuca, which covered 53 of this district’s 53 voting areas before 2024
| Parliament | It sat | Member | Elected as | Party on the legislature’s record |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 42nd | 2020 to 2024 | John Horgan | BC NDP | BC NDP |
| 42nd | 2020 to 2024 | Ravi Parmar | BC NDP | BC NDP |
| 41st | 2017 to 2020 | John Horgan | BC NDP | BC NDP |
“Elected as” is the affiliation Elections BC printed with the winning result. The last column is the party the legislature’s records give for that parliament, which differs when a member changed party while in office. A row with that column empty is a winner Elections BC prints whom the legislature’s records leave out. Source: [Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (opens in a new tab)](https://www.leg.bc.ca/members)
### Boundaries since 2024
Langford-Highlands has 53 voting areas. They overlap these districts from 2017 to 2024: Langford-Juan de Fuca (53), Esquimalt-Metchosin (1).
The commission that drew the boundaries counted 49,110 people in the district, 8.7% below the average for a district, over 86 km².
Sources: [British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission, Final report, April 3, 2023 (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/BCEBC-Final-Report-April-3-2023.pdf), [Elections BC, Voting area conversion table, 2017 to 2024 (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/fb26db04-780c-4229-a147-da4fd5311d36)
PAST RESULTS
## Every result since 2017
From Elections BC
**2024 Provincial General Election**Ravi Parmar, BC NDP, 51.87%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ravi ParmarElected | BC NDP | 11,444 | 51.87% |
| Mike Harris | Conservative Party | 8,251 | 37.40% |
| Erin Cassels | BC Green Party | 2,368 | 10.73% |
22,063 valid votes · 27 rejected ballots · 37,389 registered voters · 59.08% voted
### Langford-Juan de Fuca, 2017 to 2023
**2023 Langford-Juan de Fuca By-election**Ravi Parmar, BC NDP, 53.39%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ravi ParmarElected | BC NDP | 7,279 | 53.39% |
| Mike Harris | Conservative Party | 2,702 | 19.82% |
| Camille Currie | BC Green Party | 2,405 | 17.64% |
| Elena Lawson | BC United | 1,173 | 8.60% |
| Tyson Riel Strandlund | Communist Party of BC | 74 | 0.54% |
13,633 valid votes · 4 rejected ballots
**2020 General Election**John Horgan, BC NDP, 67.89%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John HorganElected | BC NDP | 18,073 | 67.89% |
| Gord Baird | BC Green Party | 4,437 | 16.67% |
| Kelly Darwin | BC Liberal Party | 3,980 | 14.95% |
| Tyson Riel Strandlund | Communist Party of BC | 130 | 0.49% |
26,620 valid votes · 122 rejected ballots
**2017 General Election**John Horgan, BC NDP, 52.75%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John HorganElected | BC NDP | 13,224 | 52.75% |
| Cathy Noel | BC Liberal Party | 6,544 | 26.11% |
| Brendan Ralfs | BC Green Party | 4,795 | 19.13% |
| Scott Burton | Libertarian | 262 | 1.05% |
| Willie Nelson | The Vancouver Island Party | 242 | 0.97% |
25,067 valid votes · 108 rejected ballots
The boundaries changed before the 2009, 2017 and 2024 elections, so a result under the same name can cover a different area. Sources: [Elections BC, Provincial Voting Results (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935), [Statement of Votes, 2024 Provincial General Election (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/statement-of-votes-2024-provincial-election.pdf)
PEOPLE · 2021 CENSUS
## Who lives in Langford-Highlands
49,050 residents · British Columbia beside each figure
### Age
- Median age
- 38.4BC 42.8
- Under 1517.1%BC 14.3%
- 15 to 6468.9%BC 65.3%
- 65 and over14.0%BC 20.3%
- 85 and over1.3%BC 2.4%
### Households
- Households
- 19,950
- People per household
- 2.4BC 2.4
#### Who lives together
- Couples with children24.7%BC 22.7%
- Couples without children25.9%BC 26.4%
- One-parent families8.7%BC 7.6%
- Multigenerational households2.8%BC 3.7%
- People living alone26.0%BC 29.4%
#### Household size
- 1 person26.0%BC 29.4%
- 2 persons36.3%BC 35.3%
- 3 persons16.5%BC 14.5%
- 4 persons14.0%BC 12.6%
- 5 or more persons7.2%BC 8.2%
### Homes
- Median home value
- $750,000BC $785,000
- Median monthly rent and utilities
- $1,600BC $1,370
- Median monthly cost for owners
- $1,840BC $1,320
#### Own or rent
- Own their home66.0%BC 66.8%
- Rent their home34.0%BC 32.8%
#### Type of home
- Single-detached house37.8%BC 42.4%
- Semi-detached house4.5%BC 3.1%
- Row house5.0%BC 8.3%
- Apartment or flat in a duplex23.3%BC 12.2%
- Apartment in a building that has fewer than five storeys18.8%BC 20.4%
- Apartment in a building that has five or more storeys6.6%BC 10.9%
- Other single-attached house0.4%BC 0.2%
- Movable dwelling3.6%BC 2.5%
#### When the home was built
- 1960 or earlier4.0%BC 12.5%
- 1961 to 198015.6%BC 27.0%
- 1981 to 19906.9%BC 14.2%
- 1991 to 200010.6%BC 16.5%
- 2001 to 20057.5%BC 6.0%
- 2006 to 201016.8%BC 8.0%
- 2011 to 201513.0%BC 6.6%
- 2016 to 202125.6%BC 9.1%
### Housing costs
- Renters paying 30% or more of income on housing38.6%BC 37.8%
- Owners paying 30% or more of income on housing18.5%BC 19.3%
- Renters in core housing need20.6%BC 24.7%
- Owners in core housing need5.4%BC 8.0%
- Renters in subsidized housing6.9%BC 11.0%
- Owners with a mortgage73.4%BC 57.5%
### Income
Income is for the year 2020.
- Median household income
- $94,000BC $85,000
- After tax
- $83,000BC $76,000
- Median income per person
- $48,000BC $40,800
#### Living on a low income (after-tax measure)
- All ages6.6%BC 10.8%
- Under 187.3%BC 11.3%
- 18 to 645.8%BC 9.7%
- 65 and over9.3%BC 13.8%
### Languages
#### First language learned
- English83.7%BC 67.1%
- French1.6%BC 1.2%
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)1.4%BC 1.7%
- Spanish1.2%BC 1.2%
- Punjabi (Panjabi)1.1%BC 4.9%
- Mandarin0.9%BC 4.1%
- Korean0.7%BC 1.2%
- German0.6%BC 1.0%
- Portuguese0.4%BC 0.5%
- Yue (Cantonese)0.4%BC 3.9%
#### Spoken most often at home
- English92.1%BC 78.5%
- Spanish0.8%BC 0.6%
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)0.8%BC 0.9%
- Mandarin0.7%BC 3.3%
- French0.5%BC 0.3%
- Korean0.3%BC 0.9%
- Punjabi (Panjabi)0.3%BC 3.8%
- Vietnamese0.3%BC 0.4%
#### English and French
- English only91.8%BC 90.1%
- French only0.1%BC 0.0%
- English and French7.5%BC 6.6%
- Neither English nor French0.7%BC 3.3%
### Immigration
- Born outside Canada (immigrants)
- 15.6%BC 29.0%
- Non-permanent residents
- 1.9%BC 3.5%
#### Where immigrants were born
- United Kingdom16.4%BC 8.2%
- Philippines13.2%BC 9.2%
- India8.6%BC 13.8%
- United States of America7.4%BC 4.2%
- China5.2%BC 15.3%
- Korea, South3.3%BC 3.3%
- Germany2.3%BC 2.2%
- Viet Nam2.2%BC 2.3%
- Poland2.0%BC 1.0%
- South Africa, Republic of1.8%BC 1.1%
#### When immigrants arrived
- Arrived before 198023.6%BC 19.7%
- 1980 to 199010.4%BC 11.5%
- 1991 to 200012.7%BC 21.0%
- 2001 to 201019.1%BC 22.2%
- 2011 to 202134.3%BC 25.6%
#### Generations in Canada
- First generation18.6%BC 33.7%
- Second generation19.4%BC 21.7%
- Third generation or more62.1%BC 44.5%
### Identity and origins
- Indigenous identity
- 5.7%BC 5.9%
- Visible minority
- 16.0%BC 34.4%
#### Visible minority groups
- South Asian3.9%BC 9.6%
- Filipino2.9%BC 3.5%
- Chinese2.3%BC 11.2%
- Black1.5%BC 1.3%
- Latin American1.3%BC 1.3%
- Southeast Asian1.1%BC 1.5%
- Korean0.8%BC 1.5%
- Multiple visible minorities0.6%BC 1.2%
- Japanese0.6%BC 0.9%
- West Asian0.5%BC 1.4%
- Arab0.3%BC 0.6%
- Visible minority (other)0.2%BC 0.4%
#### Ethnic or cultural origins reported most often
- English30.5%BC 20.7%
- Scottish22.5%BC 15.8%
- Irish18.1%BC 12.8%
- Canadian13.4%BC 9.3%
- German13.1%BC 11.0%
- French7.8%BC 6.4%
- British Isles5.5%BC 3.9%
- Ukrainian4.9%BC 4.3%
- Dutch4.3%BC 3.9%
- Italian3.9%BC 3.3%
### Religion
- No religion62.6%BC 52.1%
- Christian30.8%BC 34.3%
- Muslim1.4%BC 2.6%
- Hindu1.3%BC 1.7%
- Other religions1.3%BC 1.0%
- Sikh1.2%BC 5.9%
- Buddhist0.8%BC 1.7%
- Jewish0.5%BC 0.5%
- Traditional Indigenous spirituality0.1%BC 0.2%
### Education
Highest level completed, ages 25 to 64.
- No certificate, diploma or degree7.2%BC 8.0%
- High school diploma28.7%BC 25.8%
- College, trades or other certificate below a bachelor’s degree36.1%BC 31.2%
- Bachelor’s degree or higher28.0%BC 35.0%
### Work
- In the labour force
- 71.9%BC 63.3%
- Employed
- 67.5%BC 57.9%
- Unemployment rate at the census
- 6.2%BC 8.4%
#### Industries with the most workers
- Public administration13.8%BC 5.5%
- Health care and social assistance13.7%BC 12.3%
- Retail trade13.2%BC 11.6%
- Construction10.4%BC 9.0%
- Professional, scientific and technical services7.4%BC 9.2%
- Accommodation and food services6.4%BC 7.0%
- Educational services6.3%BC 7.4%
- Other services (except public administration)4.4%BC 4.4%
#### Kinds of work
- Sales and service occupations27.3%BC 25.6%
- Business, finance and administration occupations18.3%BC 17.1%
- Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations18.2%BC 18.0%
- Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services13.3%BC 11.9%
- Health occupations9.0%BC 7.7%
- Natural and applied sciences and related occupations7.4%BC 8.0%
- Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport2.6%BC 4.2%
- Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations1.6%BC 2.8%
- Occupations in manufacturing and utilities1.5%BC 3.4%
- Legislative and senior management occupations0.9%BC 1.2%
### Getting to work
#### Where people worked
- Worked at home22.9%BC 22.6%
- Worked outside Canada0.2%BC 0.4%
- No fixed workplace address15.4%BC 15.3%
- Worked at a usual workplace61.5%BC 61.6%
#### How commuters travelled
- Car, truck or van84.6%BC 79.9%
- Public transit4.9%BC 9.3%
- On foot5.7%BC 6.5%
- Bicycle2.1%BC 2.0%
- Other method2.6%BC 2.3%
#### Length of the trip
- Less than 15 minutes29.7%BC 31.8%
- 15 to 29 minutes39.3%BC 34.0%
- 30 to 44 minutes23.5%BC 19.7%
- 45 to 59 minutes4.8%BC 7.3%
- 60 minutes and over2.7%BC 7.2%
### Moving
Where residents lived five years before the census.
- Lived at the same address43.6%BC 56.2%
- Moved within the same municipality14.2%BC 16.1%
- Moved from elsewhere in BC28.4%BC 17.0%
- Moved from another province9.3%BC 4.6%
- Moved from another country4.5%BC 6.1%
Counts in the census are rounded to the nearest 5, and shares are worked out from those counts. Source: [BC Stats, from Statistics Canada tabulations, 2021 Census Profile for BC Provincial Electoral Districts (2023 Redistribution) (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/census-profiles-for-bc-provincial-electoral-districts)
QUESTIONS
## Questions about Langford-Highlands
10 answers
### Where is Langford-Highlands?
Langford-Highlands is a provincial electoral district on southern Vancouver Island, in Greater Victoria. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says it consists of the City of Langford and the District of Highlands, together with Goldstream and Gowlland Tod Provincial Parks. The district covers 86 square kilometres, and the 2021 census counted 49,050 people in it.
### Which communities are in Langford-Highlands?
Langford-Highlands includes the City of Langford and the District of Highlands, according to the Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report, and its boundaries follow the borders of those two municipalities. The report adds Goldstream and Gowlland Tod Provincial Parks. Inside Langford, the City's own pages name the Goldstream Village and Happy Valley neighbourhoods.
### Who is the MLA for Langford-Highlands?
Ravi Parmar of the BC NDP is the member of the Legislative Assembly for Langford-Highlands. He won the district at the 2024 general election with 11,444 votes. The BC government's biography says he is the Minister of Forests and Deputy Government House Leader, and that he was first elected in a 2023 by-election in Langford-Juan de Fuca.
### Who held the seat before Ravi Parmar?
Langford-Highlands first appeared on the 2024 ballot, so no member sat for it under this name before Ravi Parmar. Elections BC's conversion table lists Langford-Juan de Fuca, with 53 voting areas in common with the new district. John Horgan of the BC NDP won Langford-Juan de Fuca in 2017 and 2020, and Parmar won its 2023 by-election with 7,279 votes.
### How did Langford-Highlands vote in 2024?
At the 2024 provincial general election Ravi Parmar of the BC NDP received 11,444 votes in Langford-Highlands, or 51.87%. Mike Harris of the Conservative Party received 8,251 votes, or 37.4%, and Erin Cassels of the BC Green Party received 2,368 votes, or 10.73%. Elections BC records a turnout of 59.08% of the 37,389 registered voters.
### How did the 2023 boundary change affect Langford-Highlands?
The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report proposed adding a new electoral district in the fast-growing Langford area and recommended the name Langford-Highlands. Elections BC's conversion table lists Langford-Juan de Fuca (53 voting areas) and Esquimalt-Metchosin (1) as the 2017 to 2024 districts that overlap it. The commission gives Langford-Highlands a population of 49,110.
### Whose territory is Langford-Highlands on?
Langford-Highlands lies in the territories of several Coast Salish Nations. The City of Langford's 2025 annual report names Xwsepsum (Esquimalt), Lekwungen (Songhees), Sc’ianew (Beecher Bay) and the W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples, including the Malahat Nation. The District of Highlands names the same W̱SÁNEĆ Nations, the Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations, and the Malahat Nation. Tsartlip First Nation places Goldstream and Mt. Finlayson in its territory.
### Who lives in Langford-Highlands?
The 2021 census counted 49,050 people in Langford-Highlands, with a median age of 38.4 against 42.8 for British Columbia. Owners live in 66% of homes and renters in 34%. Immigrants are 15.6% of residents, compared with 29% in the province, and 5.7% of residents identify as Indigenous. The United Kingdom is the most common country of birth among immigrants, with 1,250 people.
### When were Langford and Highlands incorporated?
BC Geographical Names records that Langford was incorporated as a district municipality on 8 December 1992 and re-incorporated as a city effective 1 December 2003. The District of Highlands was established effective 7 December 1993. Both municipalities lie inside Langford-Highlands, and the commission's report says the district's boundaries follow their municipal borders.
### Which provincial parks are inside Langford-Highlands?
Goldstream and Gowlland Tod Provincial Parks are part of Langford-Highlands, according to the Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report. BC Parks says the Greater Victoria Water Board gave Goldstream to the people of British Columbia in 1958, and that Gowlland Tod was established in 1995 under the Commonwealth Heritage Legacy Program. The City of Langford gives Goldstream an area of 477 hectares.
SOURCES
## Where this page comes from
Figures read Thursday, October 8, 2026
1. [2021 Census Profile for BC Provincial Electoral Districts (2023 Redistribution) (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/census-profiles-for-bc-provincial-electoral-districts)BC Stats, from Statistics Canada tabulations · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
2. [Provincial Voting Results (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
3. [Statement of Votes, 2024 Provincial General Election (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/statement-of-votes-2024-provincial-election.pdf)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
4. [Voting area conversion table, 2017 to 2024 (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/fb26db04-780c-4229-a147-da4fd5311d36)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
5. [Final report, April 3, 2023 (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/BCEBC-Final-Report-April-3-2023.pdf)British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
6. [Members of the Legislative Assembly, 35th to 43rd Parliament (opens in a new tab)](https://www.leg.bc.ca/members)Legislative Assembly of British Columbia · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
7. [Final report, April 3, 2023 (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/BCEBC-Final-Report-April-3-2023.pdf)British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
8. [Provincial Voting Results (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
9. [Voting area conversion table, 2017 to 2024 (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/fb26db04-780c-4229-a147-da4fd5311d36)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
10. [Honourable Ravi Parmar, Minister of Forests (opens in a new tab)](https://news.gov.bc.ca/ministries/forests/biography)Province of British Columbia · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
11. [2025 Annual Report (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/COL_12139_2025_Annual_Report_FINAL_DIGITAL.pdf)City of Langford · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
12. [Parks and Lakes (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/leisure/parks-outdoor-recreation/parks-lakes/)City of Langford · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
13. [Langford Station: A New Beginning (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/langford-station-a-new-beginning/)City of Langford · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
14. [City of Langford adopts new Official Community Plan (opens in a new tab)](https://langford.ca/city-of-langford-adopts-new-official-community-plan/)City of Langford · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
15. [2024 Annual Report (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-06/2024%20Annual%20Report%20-%20FINAL_5.pdf)District of Highlands · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
16. [Official Community Plan, Bylaw No. 277, consolidated (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-02/277%20-%20OCP%202007_Consolidated_Schedule%20A_to%20Bylaw%20418_202501131717224860.pdf)District of Highlands · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
17. [Recommendations for a District of Highlands Heritage Register, September 2011 (opens in a new tab)](https://www.highlands.ca/sites/31/files/2025-11/HTF%20Register%20report%20final_201306031033242952.pdf)District of Highlands, Heritage Task Force · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
18. [Caleb Pike Heritage Park, Canadian Register of Historic Places (opens in a new tab)](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=20666)Canadian Register of Historic Places · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
19. [Langford (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/8837.html)BC Geographical Names Office · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
20. [Highlands (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/41023.html)BC Geographical Names Office · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
21. [Goldstream (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/50510.html)BC Geographical Names Office · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
22. [Langford Lake (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/8841.html)BC Geographical Names Office · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
23. [Mount Finlayson (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/12734.html)BC Geographical Names Office · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
24. [Finlayson Arm (opens in a new tab)](https://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/12732.html)BC Geographical Names Office · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
25. [Goldstream Park (opens in a new tab)](https://bcparks.ca/goldstream-park/)BC Parks · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
26. [Gowlland Tod Park (opens in a new tab)](https://bcparks.ca/gowlland-tod-park/)BC Parks · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
27. [Mount Work Regional Park (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/mount-work-regional-park)Capital Regional District · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
28. [Mill Hill Regional Park (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/mill-hill-regional-park)Capital Regional District · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
29. [E&N Rail Trail, Humpback Connector (opens in a new tab)](https://www.crd.ca/parks-recreation/find-park-or-trail/en-rail-trail)Capital Regional District · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
30. [The History (opens in a new tab)](https://www.islandrail.ca/?p=51)Island Corridor Foundation · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
31. [John Horgan Campus (opens in a new tab)](https://www.uvic.ca/campus/john-horgan-campus/index.php)University of Victoria · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
32. [Home page (opens in a new tab)](https://www.tsartlip.com/)Tsartlip First Nation (W̱JOȽEȽP) · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
33. [Welcome to MÁLEXEŁ (opens in a new tab)](https://malahatnation.com/)Malahat Nation · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
34. [Pauquachin Lands, Traditional Territories (opens in a new tab)](https://www.pauquachin.ca/traditional-territories)Pauquachin First Nation · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
35. [Čəléŋən ɬtə (opens in a new tab)](https://esquimaltnation.ca/?p=147)Esquimalt Nation (Xʷsepsəm) · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
36. [Home page (opens in a new tab)](https://www.songheesnation.ca/)Songhees Nation · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
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