This district elects one MLA. Voters mark one name on Saturday, October 24, 2026, and the candidate with the most votes wins the seat.
Port Moody-Burquitlam is a provincial electoral district at the eastern end of Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver. It takes in the City of Port Moody, the Villages of Anmore and Belcarra, and the Burquitlam neighbourhood of Coquitlam. The 2021 census counted 59,770 people in it, and the Electoral Boundaries Commission gives its area as 84 square kilometres.
Port Moody-Burquitlam lies at the eastern end of Burrard Inlet. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's final report of 3 April 2023 says it includes the City of Port Moody, the Villages of Belcarra and Anmore, and the Coquitlam neighbourhood of Burquitlam. It also includes the part of Eagle Ridge between Guildford Way and David Avenue. The southern boundary runs along Austin Avenue. The northwestern and eastern boundaries follow the municipal borders of Coquitlam, Port Moody, Belcarra and Anmore. The commission gave the district its name after it heard that Port Moody is closely tied to Burquitlam, and it left Westwood Plateau in Coquitlam-Burke Mountain.
The commission's map draws Burrard Inlet, Belcarra Regional Park, Buntzen Lake and part of Indian Arm Provincial Park inside the boundary. BC Geographical Names places Port Moody at the head of Burrard Inlet on its south-east side, Belcarra on the east side of the entrance to Indian Arm, and Anmore north of Port Moody. On the map, Pleasantside and Ioco Road lie on the north shore of the head of the inlet. The map also labels Coombe, Woodhaven and Bedwell Bay Road beside Belcarra, Sunnyside Road and East Road beside Anmore, and Clarke Road, Robinson Street and North Road in Burquitlam.
Barnet Highway follows the south shore of the inlet on the map, with Murray Street, Clarke Street and St Johns Street in Port Moody. TransLink's opening-day post for the Evergreen Extension, which began carrying passengers on 2 December 2016, names Moody Centre Station and Burquitlam Station on the SkyTrain line through the district.
Port Moody
Ioco
Pleasantside
Anmore
Belcarra
Coombe
Woodhaven
Burquitlam
Eagle Ridge (the part between Guildford Way and David Avenue)
The City of Port Moody says that Port Moody is located on the ancestral and unceded homelands of eight Peoples: the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓ (Kwantlen), qiqéyt (Qayqayt) and Stó:lō. Its Indigenous relations page says the Tsleil-Waututh had a village in Port Moody and have long stewarded the lands and waters of the inlet. The page says the Kwikwetlem take their name, Red Fish Up the River, from an early spring sockeye salmon run that once flourished in the Coquitlam River.
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation calls itself səlilwətaɬ, People of the Inlet. Its website says its people have lived in their traditional territory for thousands of years, based on archaeological evidence and oral history, and that the territory reaches north to Mount Garibaldi, east to Coquitlam Lake and west to Howe Sound. The Nation says that təmtəmíxwtən, which means the biggest place for all the people in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, is the largest of its ancestral villages and was mainly a winter village. It says the Tsleil-Waututh occupied təmtəmíxwtən from time out of mind until colonization. The kʷikʷəƛ̓əm First Nation says on its website that its people have lived in their territory around the Coquitlam River Watershed since before remembered time.
Port Moody becomes the end of the railway, 1860 to 1913
BC Geographical Names says Captain Richards of HM surveying vessel Plumper named the port in 1860 after Richard Clement Moody, a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in the colony in December 1858 and served as commissioner of lands and works. The Port Moody post office opened on 1 October 1882. The Port Moody Station Museum says Canadian Pacific announced the official terminus in 1879 and finished the first station in 1882 on the south shore of the inlet, with a wharf for ships that brought supplies for the track being built eastward.
BC Geographical Names records that the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie took place on 7 November 1885. The museum says the first train to reach Port Moody was a work train that arrived the next day, and that the first scheduled passenger train from the east arrived on 4 July 1886. The railway then chose Vancouver as its terminus. The museum gives 23 May 1887 as the day the first transcontinental passenger train reached Vancouver, and says many Port Moody businesses left and the population shrank. BC Geographical Names records that Port Moody was incorporated as a city on 11 March 1913.
North Road and the Burquitlam post office, 1859 to 1982
The City of Coquitlam's information sheet for the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan lists North Road among the facts about the plan area. The sheet says the road was built in 1859 to connect New Westminster to Burrard Inlet and is one of the oldest roads in the Lower Mainland.
BC Geographical Names says the name Burquitlam comes from the positions of two adjoining municipalities, Coquitlam and Burnaby, and was made for the purpose of providing a post office. The Burquitlam Post Office opened on 1 October 1906 with Peter Lawson as postmaster. It became a sub-office of the New Westminster Post Office on 1 August 1946. The Geographical Names Office adopted the name for the post office on 3 May 1951 and changed it to a community on 3 July 1979. In June 1982 the Coquitlam Planning Department set the community's limits: north of the golf course, east of North Road, south of the Port Moody city limits and west of Robinson.
Buntzen Lake, Anmore farms and the name Belcarra, 1905 to 1921
BC Geographical Names says the name Buntzen Lake was adopted on 3 June 1905, replacing Trout Lake. The lake honours Johannes Buntzen, managing director in London of the Vancouver Power Company and the BC Electric Railway Company. The record adds that the railway company's tunnel between Buntzen Lake and Coquitlam Lake was completed in 1905.
The Village of Anmore's history says homesteading began in earnest after a government land sale in 1914. A settler paid a $10 fee and $25 at the start, lived on the land for at least six months in three years, cleared two acres and built a home worth $300 or more. The Farmers' Institute formed in 1915, and a one-room school was built in 1916 at the corner of East and Sunnyside Roads. The history says settlers before 1915 had to cross Burrard Inlet by boat because no road ran around it.
BC Geographical Names records that Franklin John Lancaster applied for water rights on a creek on 19 November 1914 and made the name Annore from the first names of his wife Annie and his daughter Leonore. The Post Office decided the spelling Anmore on 5 April 1951. For Belcarra, the same office says William Norman Bole, a New Westminster lawyer who owned 260 acres there, gave the place its name, and that a 1921 map carries it. The record gives two explanations: Gaelic words meaning the fair land upon which the sun shines, and a village called Belcarra in County Mayo, Ireland, where Bole was from.
The Port Moody Station Museum says a spur track to the Imperial Oil Company refinery on the north shore was completed in 1912. Its Ioco pages say site clearing began in 1914 and the refinery began operating in January 1915. The museum says workers came from across the country, and because no road reached the site they travelled by boat. The Encyclopedia of Raincoast Place Names says a company vice-president named the site Ioco from the initial letters of the company's name.
The City of Port Moody's Official Community Plan says the townsite was cleared in the fall and winter of 1920. It says 43 new houses were built in 1921 and 15 houses from elsewhere on the property were moved there, then 17 were added in 1922 and 6 in 1923, for a total of 81. The City says primary access was by water until Ioco Road was built in the 1930s. The Encyclopedia says a pipeline joined the plant to Alberta in 1953 and that the refinery closed in 1995. The plan describes the townsite as a Heritage Conservation Area, a part of the city protected for its heritage value, with development rules and maintenance standards set by two bylaws adopted on 10 September 2002. The City lists 13 houses, the community store, the community hall, one church and one school among the buildings that remain.
The port, the station and the museum, 1945 to 1983
The Port Moody Station Museum says the railway moved the 1908 station in 1945, after local concerns, from beside the sulphur plant to the corner of Queen Street and Clarke Street. Railway workers carried it along the tracks in two sections. The museum's port history says Pacific Coast Terminals came to Port Moody in 1958 and grew into the largest export terminal of sulphur in the world. The Canadian Encyclopedia says lumbering was the main industry in the early days, that a steel-pipe mill, chemical plants and a major oil refinery followed the Second World War, and that a deep-sea port with automated bulk-loading facilities was completed in 1960.
Canadian Pacific closed the station on 25 September 1976, when it ended passenger service. A local society, now the Port Moody Heritage Society, bought the building in 1978. It was carried by flatbed truck to 2734 Murray Street, and the Port Moody Station Museum opened there on 1 July 1983.
BC Geographical Names records that Belcarra was incorporated as a village municipality on 22 August 1979. The Village of Anmore's history tells how Anmore came to incorporate. A 1978 plan prepared for the Greater Vancouver Regional District outlined roads to serve 15,000 residents by 1988, and the history says Anmore's residents had ten years to oppose it. They proposed putting 80% of their land in the Agricultural Land Reserve, and the history says the valley's unsuitability for farming made that plan unworkable.
The history says residents then promoted the Anmore Concept, a plan for houses on large lots, limited services and local control. It says the Ioco and Buntzen area proposed its own municipality in 1973 and the province chose not to act on it, and that joining Belcarra or Port Moody was rejected. A 1985 study found incorporation workable. BC Geographical Names records that Anmore was incorporated as a village municipality on 7 December 1987.
The Evergreen Extension, a plan for Burquitlam and a renamed park, 2016 to 2021
TransLink's opening-day post says the first public trips on the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line began at noon on 2 December 2016. The federal backgrounder says the extension is 11 kilometres long, has seven stations including six new ones, serves Burnaby, Port Moody and Coquitlam, and received $1.43 billion in funding from Canada, British Columbia and TransLink.
In October 2014 the City of Coquitlam published an update on its work to revise the Burquitlam and Lougheed plans before the line opened, for a plan area of more than 560 hectares. The City's servicing assessment says the Burquitlam-Lougheed Neighbourhood Plan was adopted in 2017. Its April 2022 update projects an increase of 15,000 to 16,000 dwelling units, or 28,000 to 33,000 people, in the plan area, which also takes in Lougheed.
On 8 October 2021 the Tsleil-Waututh Nation and Metro Vancouver announced that Belcarra Regional Park would become təmtəmíxwtən/Belcarra Regional Park. The Nation says the two parties signed a Cultural Planning and Co-operation Agreement for the park in February 2020.
Port Moody-Burquitlam is a new district name. The three electoral history volumes that Elections BC published for 1871 to 2013 list no district by this name, and its first results are those of the 43rd provincial general election, held on 19 October 2024. Rick Glumac of the BC NDP won with 13,488 votes (52.06%), ahead of Kerry van Aswegen of the Conservative Party with 10,493 votes (40.50%) and Samantha Agtarap of the BC Green Party with 1,927 votes (7.44%). Turnout was 58.72% of 44,199 registered voters. The commission's report of 3 April 2023 says that its preliminary report called the district Port Moody-Westwood Plateau and that it changed the name to Port Moody-Burquitlam.
Elections BC's conversion table matches the 70 voting areas of the district to three districts used from 2017 to 2024: 60 to Port Moody-Coquitlam, 6 to Coquitlam-Burke Mountain and 4 to Coquitlam-Maillardville. Glumac won the earlier district Port Moody-Coquitlam in 2017 with 11,754 votes (47.69%) and in 2020 with 12,783 votes (53.75%). Linda Reimer of the BC Liberal Party won it in 2013 with 9,675 votes (46.39%). Joe Trasolini of the BC NDP won the by-election of 2012 with 6,247 votes (54.34%). That by-election followed the resignation of Iain Black of the BC Liberal Party, who won the district in 2009 with 9,979 votes (52.15%). The Legislative Assembly lists Glumac as the member for Port Moody-Burquitlam in the 43rd Parliament.
Earlier volumes print other districts that carried the same place names. Barbara E. Copping of the NDP won Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain in 1991 with 9,821 votes (45.62%). Christy Clark of the Liberal Party won it in 1996 with 10,272 votes (44.73%). In 2001 Clark won Port Moody-Westwood with 16,500 votes (74.64%), and Harry Bloy of the Liberal Party won a district named Burquitlam with 11,131 votes (56.34%). In 2005 Black won Port Moody-Westwood with 14,161 votes (53.75%), and Bloy won Burquitlam with 10,054 votes (46.39%).
Members for Port Moody-Coquitlam, which covered 60 of this district’s 70 voting areas before 2024
Parliament
It sat
Member
Elected as
Party on the legislature’s record
42nd
2020 to 2024
Rick Glumac
BC NDP
BC NDP
41st
2017 to 2020
Rick Glumac
BC NDP
BC NDP
40th
2013 to 2017
Linda Reimer
BC Liberal Party
BC Liberal Party
39th
2009 to 2013
Joe Trasolini
BC NDP
BC NDP
39th
2009 to 2013
Iain Black
BC Liberal Party
“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)
Boundaries since 2024
Port Moody-Burquitlam has 70 voting areas. They overlap these districts from 2017 to 2024: Port Moody-Coquitlam (60), Coquitlam-Burke Mountain (6), Coquitlam-Maillardville (4).
The commission that drew the boundaries counted 59,769 people in the district, 11.2% above the average for a district, over 84 km².
Port Moody-Burquitlam is a provincial electoral district at the eastern end of Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says it includes the City of Port Moody, the Villages of Belcarra and Anmore, and the Coquitlam neighbourhood of Burquitlam. The commission gives its area as 84 square kilometres, and its southern boundary runs along Austin Avenue.
Which communities are in Port Moody-Burquitlam?
Port Moody-Burquitlam includes the City of Port Moody, the Village of Anmore, the Village of Belcarra and the Burquitlam neighbourhood of Coquitlam, according to the commission's 2023 final report. It also includes the part of Eagle Ridge between Guildford Way and David Avenue. The commission's map labels Ioco and Pleasantside on the Port Moody shore and Coombe and Woodhaven beside Belcarra.
Who is the member for Port Moody-Burquitlam?
Rick Glumac of the BC NDP is the member the legislature records for Port Moody-Burquitlam in the 43rd Parliament, after winning the district in 2024. He held the earlier district Port Moody-Coquitlam from 2017. Before him, Linda Reimer of the BC Liberal Party held it from 2013 to 2017, and Joe Trasolini of the BC NDP held it from 2009 to 2013.
How did Port Moody-Burquitlam vote in 2024?
Rick Glumac of the BC NDP won Port Moody-Burquitlam in the 2024 provincial general election with 13,488 votes, 52.06% of the valid vote. Kerry van Aswegen of the Conservative Party received 10,493 votes, 40.50%, and Samantha Agtarap of the BC Green Party received 1,927 votes, 7.44%. Turnout was 58.72% of the 44,199 registered voters.
How have the boundaries of Port Moody-Burquitlam changed?
Port Moody-Burquitlam is a new district for the 2024 election. Elections BC's conversion table matches its 70 voting areas to the districts used from 2017 to 2024: 60 to Port Moody-Coquitlam, 6 to Coquitlam-Burke Mountain and 4 to Coquitlam-Maillardville. The commission's final report names it Port Moody-Burquitlam instead of Port Moody-Westwood Plateau, the name in its preliminary report.
Who lives in Port Moody-Burquitlam?
The 2021 census counted 59,770 people in Port Moody-Burquitlam, with a median age of 40.4 years against 42.8 for British Columbia. Immigrants are 38.3% of residents, against 29% for the province. English is the first language of 58% of residents, Mandarin of 7%, Korean of 6%, Yue (Cantonese) of 4.1% and Iranian Persian of 3.2%.
Whose traditional territory is Port Moody-Burquitlam on?
The City of Port Moody says Port Moody is on the ancestral and unceded homelands of eight Peoples, among them the kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh). Its Indigenous relations page says the Tsleil-Waututh had a village in Port Moody. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation says təmtəmíxwtən, the largest of its ancestral villages, lies within Belcarra Regional Park, which the commission's map draws inside Port Moody-Burquitlam.
Why did Port Moody matter to the Canadian Pacific Railway?
Canadian Pacific announced Port Moody as the official end of its line in 1879, according to the Port Moody Station Museum, and the first scheduled passenger train from the east reached the town on 4 July 1886. The railway then chose Vancouver as its terminus. Port Moody, which lies in Port Moody-Burquitlam, was incorporated as a city on 11 March 1913.
When did Anmore and Belcarra become villages?
BC Geographical Names records that Belcarra was incorporated as a village municipality on 22 August 1979 and Anmore on 7 December 1987. Both villages lie in Port Moody-Burquitlam. The Village of Anmore's history says a 1978 regional plan for 15,000 residents by 1988 led its residents to seek incorporation, and that a study in 1985 found it workable.
Where does the name Burquitlam come from?
BC Geographical Names says Burquitlam comes from the positions of two adjoining municipalities, Coquitlam and Burnaby, and was made up to provide a post office. The Burquitlam Post Office opened on 1 October 1906. Burquitlam is the Coquitlam neighbourhood in the south of Port Moody-Burquitlam, and the district takes the second half of its name from it.