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MLA · BC PROVINCIAL 2026
# Vancouver-Hastings.
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.
Vancouver-Hastings is a provincial electoral district in the northeast of the City of Vancouver. It takes in Hastings-Sunrise, Still Creek and the eastern part of Grandview-Woodlands, between Commercial Drive and Boundary Road, from Burrard Inlet south to Grandview Highway and E 12th Avenue. The 2021 census counted 58,085 people in it, and the Electoral Boundaries Commission gives its area as 14 square kilometres.
## The candidates
In alphabetical order
[MLA · Vancouver-Hastings**Centre BC**Christian Bosio
Researched by voche.meExplore the profile ](https://voche.me/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/christian-bosio) [MLA · Vancouver-Hastings**Communist Party of BC**Kimball Cariou
Researched by voche.meExplore the profile ](https://voche.me/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/kimball-cariou) [MLA · Vancouver-Hastings**BC Green Party**Kyra Philbert
Researched by voche.meExplore the profile ](https://voche.me/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/kyra-philbert) [MLA · Vancouver-Hastings**BC NDP**Niki Sharma
Researched by voche.meExplore the profile ](https://voche.me/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/niki-sharma) [MLA · Vancouver-Hastings**BC Libertarian Party**Phil Webb
On the official list. Research to come.Explore the profile ](https://voche.me/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/phil-webb) [MLA · Vancouver-Hastings**Conservative Party of BC**Phyllis Tang
On the official list. Research to come.Explore the profile ](https://voche.me/bc/provincial-2026/candidates/phyllis-tang)
- People, 2021 census
- 58,085
- Area
- 14 km²
- Registered voters, 2024
- 41,189
- Turnout, 2024
- 54.01%
- Median age
- 40.4
- Median household income, 2020
- $81,000
THE DISTRICT
## Where Vancouver-Hastings is
14 km² · 58,085 people
Vancouver-Hastings lies in the northeast of the City of Vancouver. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says it includes Hastings-Sunrise, Still Creek and the eastern part of Grandview-Woodlands. Commercial Drive is its western border and Boundary Road, next to Burnaby, is its eastern border. In the south the boundary follows Grandview Highway and E 12th Avenue, and in the north it follows Burrard Inlet. The commission counted 58,095 people in the district, which covers 14 square kilometres.
The commission's map names New Brighton Park on the inlet shore, and Exhibition Park, Rupert Park and Adanac Park inland. It shows E Hastings Street, E 1st Avenue and E Broadway running east and west, and the Trans-Canada Highway through the district. The City of Vancouver describes Hastings-Sunrise as an area that is mainly residential, with shops and services along Hastings Street's East Village. On its north slope the City reports views across Burrard Inlet to the mountains, and it names the Pacific National Exhibition at Hastings Park as the best known feature of the neighbourhood.
Elections BC's results file for the 2024 election lists 14 places where people voted in the district: six elementary schools (Dr. A.R. Lord, Hastings, Laura Secord, Lord Nelson, Sir John Franklin and χpey̓), three school annexes, Templeton Secondary School, Vancouver Technical Secondary School, Thunderbird Community Centre, the Maritime Labour Centre and Famee Furlane of Vancouver. The City's Hastings-Sunrise page also names Hastings Community Centre, New Brighton Pool, Templeton Park Pool, Firehall No. 14 and a branch of the Vancouver Public Library.
- Hastings-Sunrise
- Hastings
- Sunrise
- Still Creek
- Grandview-Woodlands (eastern part)
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/44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935), [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/hastings-sunrise.aspx)
HISTORY
## The history of the area
Checked Thursday, October 8, 2026
### Burrard Inlet shore: Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam territory
The northern edge of Vancouver-Hastings is the south shore of Burrard Inlet. Tsleil-Waututh Nation names itself səlilwətaɬ, which it translates as People of the Inlet. It says that archaeological evidence and its oral history show its people have lived in its traditional territory for thousands of years. The Nation says it has never ceded or relinquished its responsibility for that territory, and that industry and the growth of cities have exploited and damaged its resources.
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, the Squamish Nation, measures its traditional territory at 6,732 square kilometres. The Nation says the territory includes all of Howe Sound, Burrard Inlet and English Bay, and that some of its village sites are 3,000 years old. Musqueam leaders and members signed the Musqueam Declaration on 10 June 1976. Its boundary runs along the height of land around the whole watershed that drains into English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm.
The Vancouver Heritage Foundation's guide to Hastings-Sunrise gives the name X̱í7nam̓ut, also written Khanamoot, for the place now called New Brighton Park. The guide says that in the 1860s the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam peoples were increasingly confined to villages on the North Shore and in Stanley Park.
Sources: [Tsleil-Waututh Nation (səlilwətaɬ) (opens in a new tab)](https://twnation.ca/about/), [Squamish Nation (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw) (opens in a new tab)](https://www.squamish.net/about-us/our-land/), [Musqueam Indian Band (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) (opens in a new tab)](https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/our-story/our-territory/), [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf)
### A wagon road, a resort and the Hastings Townsite, 1863 to 1889
In 1863 Colonel Richard Moody of the Royal Engineers chose X̱í7nam̓ut, today's New Brighton Park, as the end of a wagon road that joined Burrard Inlet to the colonial capital, New Westminster, according to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation. Moody supervised a government town reserve that ran east from present-day Nanaimo Street and south nearly to Kingsway. It became known as the Hastings Townsite. The City of Vancouver says the northern half of that block of land is today's Hastings-Sunrise.
A resort grew on the shore. The City says the New Brighton resort was established in 1865 at the foot of Windermere Street, and the foundation says the Brighton Hotel opened that year for vacationers from New Westminster. By 1868, the City reports, vacationers, loggers and mill workers rode a stagecoach 16 kilometres from New Westminster to the hotel. A ferry called the Sea Foam then ran a triangular route, across Burrard Inlet to Moodyville, to Stamp's Mill at the foot of Dunlevy Street, and along the northern shore back to New Brighton.
In 1869 the settlement took the name Hastings after Admiral George Fowler Hastings, who had visited, and the first subdivision lots in the future Vancouver were offered for sale. The Canadian Pacific Railway finished its tracks along the south shore of Burrard Inlet in 1887 and ran past Hastings to its end on the waterfront of the newly incorporated City of Vancouver. In 1889 the provincial government gave part of the Hastings Townsite to Vancouver as a park. The City says the New Brighton Hotel was destroyed by fire in 1905.
Sources: [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf), [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/hastings-sunrise.aspx)
### The vote to join Vancouver in 1911 and the first streets
In December 1911 the landowners of the Hastings Townsite voted 1,200 to 1 to join the City of Vancouver, the foundation records. Frank Woodside led the campaign for the vote. In 1911 he paid for a corner store with apartments above at 2598 Eton Street, and he served as the ward alderman from 1911 to 1928. Canada's Register of Historic Places calls that building one of the earliest remaining commercial buildings in this part of east Vancouver.
A streetcar line along McGill Street to Renfrew was finished for the opening of the Vancouver Exhibition, and the foundation says it helped settle the area. The City says the northern, Hastings part of Hastings-Sunrise was built up with houses in the 1920s, and that the southern part, Sunrise, south of First Avenue, was built in the 1940s. The name Sunrise came into use in the 1940s, after a subdivision called Sunrise Ridge and a nearby Sunrise Park.
Public buildings followed the houses. Hastings Elementary School on Franklin Street was built in 1912, enlarged in 1925 and upgraded against earthquakes in 2003, with its brick front kept. The City names the 1912 Girls' Industrial School on Cassiar Street as one of the few Mission Revival buildings left in Vancouver. The Hastings Community Association was incorporated in 1934, and the New Brighton outdoor pool opened in 1936. The foundation adds that the corner of Powell Street and Victoria Drive, where a lumber and sash mill stood, was called Heaps by the Japanese Canadians who worked there.
Sources: [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf), [Parks Canada, Canadian Register of Historic Places (opens in a new tab)](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=20665), [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/hastings-sunrise.aspx), [City of Vancouver and Hastings Community Association (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/hastings-summer-recreation-guide.pdf)
### The race course and the Vancouver Exhibition, 1892 to 1946
Hastings Park began as a place for leisure. The foundation says the Hastings Park Race Course has held horse races since 1892, and the City says a half-mile race track drew visitors until the turn of the twentieth century. Residents then asked for events such as trade shows for dairy farmers, loggers and gardeners. That request led to the first exhibition, staged by the Vancouver Exhibition Association in 1910, the City reports.
The Canadian Encyclopedia says the association was founded in 1907 and that its first fair, then called the Industrial Exhibition, was opened by Sir Wilfrid Laurier on 16 August 1910. The first fair drew 68,000 people. It is now the Pacific National Exhibition, a 17-day summer fair that the encyclopedia says draws more than 900,000 visitors each year. The City says the site had been renamed Exhibition Park by 1946.
The Forum was built in 1931 as a concert hall and was the home of the Vancouver Canucks from 1945 to 1968, the foundation says. The City describes the Forum and the Garden Auditorium, first built as the Education Building, as examples of the Moderne style. Across Renfrew Street, Con Jones Park, later Callister Park, held soccer, lacrosse and baseball from 1921 until its stadium was torn down in 1971.
Sources: [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf), [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/hastings-sunrise.aspx), [The Canadian Encyclopedia (opens in a new tab)](https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pacific-national-exhibition-pne)
### Hastings Park in 1942
In 1942 Hastings Park became a detention site for Japanese Canadians. Canada's Register of Historic Places says the Department of National Defence and the BC Security Commission expropriated the site in April 1942 to hold Japanese Canadians before they were sent to internment or work camps. The Nikkei National Museum says that in early 1942 over 8,000 Japanese Canadians were detained in the park.
The register describes how each building was used. The Livestock Building held women and children in poor conditions. The Forum separated men and boys aged 12 to 17 from their families before they were sent to road and work camps. Rollerland became a dormitory and classroom for teenage boys under Reverend Yoshio Ono of the United Church of Canada, and the Garden Auditorium was used to teach children and teenagers. The museum has placed information panels at these four buildings and offers walking tours.
The events of 1942 reached the streets around the park. The foundation says Bunzo and Misu Watanabe ran the Park Grocery at 2598 Eton Street, and that the federal government confiscated and resold it, with other Japanese Canadian property on the coast, soon after the owners were interned. The register dates their running of the store to 1939. The Vancouver Japanese Gardeners' Association established Momiji Garden in the park in 1993, and in 2017 the Province of British Columbia recognised Hastings Park as a heritage site.
Sources: [Parks Canada, Canadian Register of Historic Places (opens in a new tab)](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=23238), [Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre (opens in a new tab)](https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/hastings-park-commemorative-project/), [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf), [Parks Canada, Canadian Register of Historic Places (opens in a new tab)](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=20665)
### Empire Stadium, Playland and the Coliseum, 1954 to 1970
On 7 August 1954 the British Empire Games held the Miracle Mile at Empire Stadium in Hastings Park. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia says Roger Bannister of England beat John Landy of Australia, 3:58.8 to 3:59.6, and that it was the first time two runners had broken four minutes in the same race. It adds that the race was the first international sports event broadcast live on television to all of North America. A bronze statue at Hastings and Renfrew marks the race, the City says.
Playland moved to its present site in 1958, when it took that name, according to the Canadian Encyclopedia. The Wooden Roller Coaster was built the same year by Carl Phare and Walker LeRoy. The foundation gives the coaster a largest drop of 20 metres and a top speed of 76 kilometres an hour, and calls it the oldest operating wooden roller coaster in Canada.
The Pacific Coliseum opened on the PNE grounds on 8 January 1968 with the touring Ice Capades show, the Encyclopedia of British Columbia says. The Vancouver Canucks, then in the Western Hockey League, played there, and on 9 October 1970 they played their first National Hockey League game in it. The foundation records that the Coliseum received a Places That Matter plaque in 2013, and the PNE says it hosted events of the 2010 Olympic Games.
Sources: [Harbour Publishing (KnowBC) (opens in a new tab)](https://www.knowbc.com/knowbc/Books/Encyclopedia-of-BC/M/Miracle-Mile), [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/hastings-sunrise.aspx), [The Canadian Encyclopedia (opens in a new tab)](https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pacific-national-exhibition-pne), [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf), [Harbour Publishing (KnowBC) (opens in a new tab)](https://www.knowbc.com/limited/Books/Encyclopedia-of-BC/P/Pacific-Coliseum), [Pacific National Exhibition (opens in a new tab)](https://pne.ca/?p=1105)
### Grandview east of Commercial Drive and two schools, 1891 to 2017
Only the eastern part of Grandview-Woodland lies in the district. The City's history of the whole neighbourhood says the Vancouver to New Westminster interurban railway opened in September 1891 and ran each hour along Park Drive, which was renamed Commercial Drive in 1911. After the First World War, Italian, Chinese and East European immigrants came to Grandview, the City says. After the Second World War a second wave of Italian immigrants renovated old houses and added shops and restaurants on Commercial Drive.
Vancouver Technical Secondary School, at 2600 East Broadway, was a voting place in the district in 2024. The Vancouver School Board says it began in September 1916 in the basement of King Edward High School and moved to the Labour Temple at Homer and Dunsmuir. A new building at Broadway and Clinton, now Penticton Street, opened in 1928. Girls were first admitted in September 1940, and two large additions were finished by 1954. The foundation names Townley and Matheson as the architects and Charles Marega as the sculptor of the relief panel above the entrance.
χpey̓ Elementary School stands at 1950 East Hastings Street. It was Macdonald Elementary until the Vancouver School Board renamed it on 23 October 2017. The board says χpey̓ means cedar in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, and that the school is an Indigenous Focus Choice School.
Sources: [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/grandview-woodland.aspx), [Elections BC (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935), [Vancouver School Board (opens in a new tab)](https://vsb.bc.ca/vancouver-technical/school-history), [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.heritagesitefinder.ca/location/2600-e-broadway-vancouver-bc), [Vancouver School Board (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vsb.bc.ca/xpey/about-us)
### The park plan and the New Brighton shoreline, 2004 to 2017
The PNE says the City of Vancouver has owned the PNE since January 2004, and that City Council adopted the Hastings Park/PNE Master Plan in December 2010. The plan keeps Playland and the annual fair and increases the amount of park land. The City's page on Hastings-Sunrise says a lease held by the province until 1994 was replaced by a new agreement that made the City the owner of the site.
On the shore, the foundation says work on an intertidal salt marsh in New Brighton Park was completed in 2017, after 150 years of industrial use of the waterfront. The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and the Park Board funded it, with the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam Nations involved, and signs give the Indigenous names of the plants and animals. The City's project page adds that a stream link from Creekway Park is part of the long-term restoration of Hastings Creek, and that the work carries out the 2010 Hastings Park and PNE Master Plan and the 1997 New Brighton Park Master Plan.
Sources: [Pacific National Exhibition (opens in a new tab)](https://pne.ca/?p=1105), [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/hastings-sunrise.aspx), [Vancouver Heritage Foundation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf), [City of Vancouver (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/new-brighton-park-shoreline-habitat-restoration-in-depth.aspx)
THE SEAT
## Who has held the seat
Legislative Assembly records, 35th Parliament onward
Elections BC's volume for 1871 to 1986 prints no district named Vancouver-Hastings. Its volume for 1987 to 2001 prints candidate results under the name for the 35th general election, held on 17 October 1991. Joy K. MacPhail of the New Democratic Party won with 10,087 votes (55.93%), ahead of Nancy Lau of the Liberal Party with 5,092 (28.23%) and Don L. Gedlaman of the Social Credit Party with 2,589 (14.35%). In 1996, on 28 May, MacPhail won with 9,894 votes (54.01%) and Raymond Leung of the Liberal Party received 6,345 (34.64%). On 16 May 2001 she won again with 8,009 votes (41.64%), and Daniel Lee of the Liberal Party received 7,600 (39.51%).
The volume for 2002 to 2013 prints Shane Simpson of the BC NDP as the winner in all three of its elections: on 17 May 2005 with 11,726 votes (54.61%), on 12 May 2009 with 10,857 (55.49%) and on 14 May 2013 with 12,782 (59.51%). Simpson won again in 2017 with 14,382 votes (59.98%). Niki Sharma of the BC NDP won in 2020 with 13,362 votes (60.56%) and in 2024 with 14,237 (64.15%). Jacob Burdge of the Conservative Party received 5,391 votes (24.29%) in 2024, and turnout was 54.01% of 41,189 registered voters.
The legislature's record lists MacPhail in the 35th, 36th and 37th Parliaments, Simpson in the 38th to 41st, and Sharma in the 42nd and 43rd. For each election that the volumes cover, from 1991 to 2013, the volumes and the legislature's record name the same person. The commission's 2023 final report describes the district as Hastings-Sunrise, Still Creek and the eastern part of Grandview-Woodlands, and its tables list 58,095 people and 14 square kilometres for both the current and the proposed district. All 70 of the district's voting areas were in the Vancouver-Hastings of 2017 to 2024. Its proposals for the city added a twelfth electoral district in Vancouver.
Sources: [Elections BC (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf), [Elections BC (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1987-2001-ElectionHistory.pdf), [Elections BC (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/2002-2013-ElectionHistory.pdf), [Elections BC (opens in a new tab)](https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/44914a35-de9a-4830-ac48-870001ef8935), [Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (opens in a new tab)](https://www.leg.bc.ca/members), [British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/BCEBC-Final-Report-April-3-2023.pdf)
Members for Vancouver-Hastings
| Parliament | It sat | Member | Elected as | Party on the legislature’s record |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 43rd | 2025 to 2026 | Niki Sharma | BC NDP | BC NDP |
| 42nd | 2020 to 2024 | Niki Sharma | BC NDP | BC NDP |
| 41st | 2017 to 2020 | Shane Simpson | | BC NDP |
| 40th | 2013 to 2017 | Shane Simpson | BC NDP | BC NDP |
| 39th | 2009 to 2013 | Shane Simpson | BC NDP | BC NDP |
| 38th | 2005 to 2009 | Shane Simpson | BC NDP | BC NDP |
| 37th | 2001 to 2005 | Joy K. MacPhail | | BC NDP |
| 36th | 1996 to 2001 | Joy K. MacPhail | | BC NDP |
| 35th | 1992 to 1996 | Joy K. MacPhail | | 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
Vancouver-Hastings has 70 voting areas. 70 of them overlap the district of the same name used from 2017 to 2024.
The commission that drew the boundaries counted 58,095 people in the district, 8.0% above the average for a district, over 14 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 2005
From Elections BC
**2024 Provincial General Election**Niki Sharma, BC NDP, 64.15%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Niki SharmaElected | BC NDP | 14,237 | 64.15% |
| Jacob Burdge | Conservative Party | 5,391 | 24.29% |
| Bridget Burns | BC Green Party | 2,409 | 10.85% |
| Zsolt Kiss | Independent | 157 | 0.71% |
22,194 valid votes · 52 rejected ballots · 41,189 registered voters · 54.01% voted
**2020 General Election**Niki Sharma, BC NDP, 60.56%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Niki SharmaElected | BC NDP | 13,362 | 60.56% |
| Bridget Burns | BC Green Party | 4,312 | 19.54% |
| Alex Read | BC Liberal Party | 3,885 | 17.61% |
| Gölök Z Buday | Libertarian | 321 | 1.45% |
| Kimball Cariou | Communist Party of BC | 184 | 0.83% |
22,064 valid votes · 192 rejected ballots
**2017 General Election**Shane Lee Simpson, BC NDP, 59.98%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shane Lee SimpsonElected | BC NDP | 14,382 | 59.98% |
| Jane Spitz | BC Liberal Party | 5,152 | 21.49% |
| David H.T. Wong | BC Green Party | 4,238 | 17.67% |
| Kimball Mark Cariou | Communist Party of BC | 206 | 0.86% |
23,978 valid votes · 188 rejected ballots
**2013 General Election**Shane Simpson, BC NDP, 59.51%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shane SimpsonElected | BC NDP | 12,782 | 59.51% |
| Fatima Siddiqui | BC Liberal Party | 5,936 | 27.64% |
| Brennan Wauters | BC Green Party | 2,386 | 11.11% |
| Carrol B. Woolsey | BC Social Credit Party | 374 | 1.74% |
21,478 valid votes · 206 rejected ballots
**2009 General Election**Shane Simpson, BC NDP, 55.49%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shane SimpsonElected | BC NDP | 10,857 | 55.49% |
| Haida Lane | BC Liberal Party | 6,323 | 32.32% |
| Ryan Daniel Conroy | BC Green Party | 2,012 | 10.28% |
| Chris Telford | Work Less Party | 198 | 1.01% |
| Dietrich Pajonk | The Sex Party | 99 | 0.51% |
| Donna Petersen | People's Front | 76 | 0.39% |
19,565 valid votes · 163 rejected ballots
**2005 General Election**Shane Simpson, BC NDP, 54.61%
| Candidate | Affiliation | Votes | Share |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Shane SimpsonElected | BC NDP | 11,726 | 54.61% |
| Laura McDiarmid | BC Liberal Party | 6,910 | 32.18% |
| Ian Gregson | BC Green Party | 1,928 | 8.98% |
| Carrol Woolsey | BC Social Credit Party | 274 | 1.28% |
| Denise Brennan | Work Less Party | 247 | 1.15% |
| Stephen Payne | BC Marijuana Party | 188 | 0.88% |
| Will Offley | Independent | 130 | 0.61% |
| Catherine Millard MillardSaadi | The Platinum Party | 68 | 0.32% |
21,471 valid votes · 205 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 Vancouver-Hastings
58,085 residents · British Columbia beside each figure
### Age
- Median age
- 40.4BC 42.8
- Under 1512.2%BC 14.3%
- 15 to 6471.1%BC 65.3%
- 65 and over16.8%BC 20.3%
- 85 and over2.9%BC 2.4%
### Households
- Households
- 24,780
- People per household
- 2.3BC 2.4
#### Who lives together
- Couples with children20.4%BC 22.7%
- Couples without children20.9%BC 26.4%
- One-parent families8.1%BC 7.6%
- Multigenerational households3.8%BC 3.7%
- People living alone33.1%BC 29.4%
#### Household size
- 1 person33.1%BC 29.4%
- 2 persons32.3%BC 35.3%
- 3 persons15.2%BC 14.5%
- 4 persons12.4%BC 12.6%
- 5 or more persons7.0%BC 8.2%
### Homes
- Median home value
- $1,500,000BC $785,000
- Median monthly rent and utilities
- $1,300BC $1,370
- Median monthly cost for owners
- $1,100BC $1,320
#### Own or rent
- Own their home50.4%BC 66.8%
- Rent their home49.6%BC 32.8%
#### Type of home
- Single-detached house22.4%BC 42.4%
- Semi-detached house2.4%BC 3.1%
- Row house2.5%BC 8.3%
- Apartment or flat in a duplex33.1%BC 12.2%
- Apartment in a building that has fewer than five storeys36.5%BC 20.4%
- Apartment in a building that has five or more storeys2.8%BC 10.9%
- Other single-attached house0.2%BC 0.2%
#### When the home was built
- 1960 or earlier31.8%BC 12.5%
- 1961 to 198023.8%BC 27.0%
- 1981 to 199011.3%BC 14.2%
- 1991 to 200012.4%BC 16.5%
- 2001 to 20054.7%BC 6.0%
- 2006 to 20104.2%BC 8.0%
- 2011 to 20154.6%BC 6.6%
- 2016 to 20217.1%BC 9.1%
### Housing costs
- Renters paying 30% or more of income on housing34.2%BC 37.8%
- Owners paying 30% or more of income on housing21.5%BC 19.3%
- Renters in core housing need29.0%BC 24.7%
- Owners in core housing need10.9%BC 8.0%
- Renters in subsidized housing15.0%BC 11.0%
- Owners with a mortgage50.0%BC 57.5%
### Income
Income is for the year 2020.
- Median household income
- $81,000BC $85,000
- After tax
- $72,500BC $76,000
- Median income per person
- $38,800BC $40,800
#### Living on a low income (after-tax measure)
- All ages11.3%BC 10.8%
- Under 1810.1%BC 11.3%
- 18 to 649.3%BC 9.7%
- 65 and over20.4%BC 13.8%
### Languages
#### First language learned
- English55.3%BC 67.1%
- Yue (Cantonese)17.5%BC 3.9%
- Vietnamese3.2%BC 0.7%
- Spanish2.5%BC 1.2%
- Italian2.2%BC 0.4%
- Mandarin2.1%BC 4.1%
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)2.1%BC 1.7%
- French1.3%BC 1.2%
- Portuguese0.9%BC 0.5%
- Japanese0.7%BC 0.4%
#### Spoken most often at home
- English71.1%BC 78.5%
- Yue (Cantonese)12.6%BC 2.8%
- Vietnamese1.9%BC 0.4%
- Mandarin1.5%BC 3.3%
- Spanish1.3%BC 0.6%
- Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)1.2%BC 0.9%
- Italian0.9%BC 0.1%
- Portuguese0.5%BC 0.3%
#### English and French
- English only82.5%BC 90.1%
- English and French9.2%BC 6.6%
- Neither English nor French8.2%BC 3.3%
### Immigration
- Born outside Canada (immigrants)
- 37.2%BC 29.0%
- Non-permanent residents
- 3.5%BC 3.5%
#### Where immigrants were born
- China30.0%BC 15.3%
- Viet Nam9.7%BC 2.3%
- Philippines9.4%BC 9.2%
- Hong Kong7.9%BC 5.5%
- Italy4.4%BC 0.9%
- United Kingdom4.3%BC 8.2%
- United States of America3.9%BC 4.2%
- India2.2%BC 13.8%
- Oceania and other places of birth1.7%BC 2.3%
- Mexico1.2%BC 0.9%
#### When immigrants arrived
- Arrived before 198021.5%BC 19.7%
- 1980 to 199020.2%BC 11.5%
- 1991 to 200026.4%BC 21.0%
- 2001 to 201014.9%BC 22.2%
- 2011 to 202117.0%BC 25.6%
#### Generations in Canada
- First generation42.3%BC 33.7%
- Second generation28.2%BC 21.7%
- Third generation or more29.5%BC 44.5%
### Identity and origins
- Indigenous identity
- 3.9%BC 5.9%
- Visible minority
- 50.1%BC 34.4%
#### Visible minority groups
- Chinese27.4%BC 11.2%
- Southeast Asian4.7%BC 1.5%
- Filipino4.4%BC 3.5%
- South Asian3.2%BC 9.6%
- Multiple visible minorities2.6%BC 1.2%
- Latin American2.6%BC 1.3%
- Black1.5%BC 1.3%
- Japanese1.3%BC 0.9%
- Korean0.8%BC 1.5%
- West Asian0.6%BC 1.4%
- Arab0.6%BC 0.6%
- Visible minority (other)0.5%BC 0.4%
#### Ethnic or cultural origins reported most often
- Chinese27.3%BC 10.5%
- English13.6%BC 20.7%
- Scottish12.8%BC 15.8%
- Irish10.6%BC 12.8%
- German8.1%BC 11.0%
- Italian6.7%BC 3.3%
- Canadian5.5%BC 9.3%
- French5.5%BC 6.4%
- Filipino5.0%BC 3.5%
- Vietnamese4.6%BC 1.1%
### Religion
- No religion61.9%BC 52.1%
- Christian27.3%BC 34.3%
- Buddhist5.3%BC 1.7%
- Muslim1.9%BC 2.6%
- Other religions1.4%BC 1.0%
- Hindu0.8%BC 1.7%
- Jewish0.7%BC 0.5%
- Sikh0.5%BC 5.9%
- Traditional Indigenous spirituality0.1%BC 0.2%
### Education
Highest level completed, ages 25 to 64.
- No certificate, diploma or degree8.6%BC 8.0%
- High school diploma23.8%BC 25.8%
- College, trades or other certificate below a bachelor’s degree25.8%BC 31.2%
- Bachelor’s degree or higher41.8%BC 35.0%
### Work
- In the labour force
- 68.0%BC 63.3%
- Employed
- 61.5%BC 57.9%
- Unemployment rate at the census
- 9.5%BC 8.4%
#### Industries with the most workers
- Professional, scientific and technical services11.9%BC 9.2%
- Health care and social assistance11.6%BC 12.3%
- Retail trade9.9%BC 11.6%
- Accommodation and food services8.9%BC 7.0%
- Educational services8.6%BC 7.4%
- Construction7.1%BC 9.0%
- Information and cultural industries6.5%BC 2.7%
- Manufacturing5.4%BC 5.9%
#### Kinds of work
- Sales and service occupations25.2%BC 25.6%
- Business, finance and administration occupations16.8%BC 17.1%
- Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services14.0%BC 11.9%
- Trades, transport and equipment operators and related occupations12.9%BC 18.0%
- Occupations in art, culture, recreation and sport9.5%BC 4.2%
- Natural and applied sciences and related occupations9.2%BC 8.0%
- Health occupations6.4%BC 7.7%
- Occupations in manufacturing and utilities3.5%BC 3.4%
- Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations1.4%BC 2.8%
- Legislative and senior management occupations1.0%BC 1.2%
### Getting to work
#### Where people worked
- Worked at home29.4%BC 22.6%
- Worked outside Canada0.2%BC 0.4%
- No fixed workplace address14.5%BC 15.3%
- Worked at a usual workplace55.9%BC 61.6%
#### How commuters travelled
- Car, truck or van61.1%BC 79.9%
- Public transit22.1%BC 9.3%
- On foot6.9%BC 6.5%
- Bicycle7.4%BC 2.0%
- Other method2.4%BC 2.3%
#### Length of the trip
- Less than 15 minutes18.1%BC 31.8%
- 15 to 29 minutes39.1%BC 34.0%
- 30 to 44 minutes28.4%BC 19.7%
- 45 to 59 minutes7.9%BC 7.3%
- 60 minutes and over6.4%BC 7.2%
### Moving
Where residents lived five years before the census.
- Lived at the same address62.4%BC 56.2%
- Moved within the same municipality20.4%BC 16.1%
- Moved from elsewhere in BC7.7%BC 17.0%
- Moved from another province3.6%BC 4.6%
- Moved from another country5.9%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 Vancouver-Hastings
11 answers
### Where is Vancouver-Hastings?
Vancouver-Hastings is a provincial electoral district in the northeast of the City of Vancouver. The Electoral Boundaries Commission's 2023 final report says Commercial Drive is its western border and Boundary Road its eastern border. Its northern boundary follows Burrard Inlet, and its southern boundary follows Grandview Highway and E 12th Avenue. The commission gives its area as 14 square kilometres.
### Which neighbourhoods are in Vancouver-Hastings?
Vancouver-Hastings includes Hastings-Sunrise, Still Creek and the eastern part of Grandview-Woodlands, according to the commission's 2023 final report. Hastings Park, where the Pacific National Exhibition is held, lies in Hastings-Sunrise, as do Thunderbird Community Centre and Hastings Community Centre, the City of Vancouver reports. Elections BC's 2024 results file lists Thunderbird Community Centre as a voting place in the district.
### Who is the MLA for Vancouver-Hastings?
Niki Sharma of the BC NDP won Vancouver-Hastings in the 2024 provincial election with 14,237 votes, 64.15% of the valid vote. She also won the district in 2020. Jacob Burdge of the Conservative Party received 5,391 votes and Bridget Burns of the BC Green Party received 2,409. Turnout was 54.01% of 41,189 registered voters.
### Who represented Vancouver-Hastings before Niki Sharma?
Shane Simpson of the BC NDP represented Vancouver-Hastings before Niki Sharma. The legislature's record lists him in the 38th to 41st Parliaments, after he won in 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017. In 2017 he received 14,382 votes, 59.98% of the valid vote. Before him, Joy K. MacPhail of the New Democratic Party won the district in 1991, 1996 and 2001.
### How did Vancouver-Hastings vote in 2024?
In 2024 Vancouver-Hastings elected Niki Sharma of the BC NDP with 14,237 of 22,194 valid votes, which is 64.15%. Jacob Burdge of the Conservative Party received 5,391 votes, 24.29%, and Bridget Burns of the BC Green Party received 2,409, 10.85%. Zsolt Kiss, an Independent, received 157. Turnout was 54.01% of 41,189 registered voters, according to Elections BC.
### How did the boundaries of Vancouver-Hastings change in 2023?
The commission's 2023 final report lists the same population and area for the current and the proposed Vancouver-Hastings, 58,095 people over 14 square kilometres. Elections BC's results file shows that all 70 of the district's voting areas were in the Vancouver-Hastings of 2017 to 2024. The commission proposed a twelfth electoral district for Vancouver, and it described this district by its borders of Commercial Drive and Boundary Road.
### Who lives in Vancouver-Hastings?
The 2021 census counted 58,085 people in Vancouver-Hastings, with a median age of 40.4 compared with 42.8 across British Columbia. English was the first language of 55.3% of residents and Yue (Cantonese) of 17.5%. Immigrants made up 37.2% of the population, and the median household income was $81,000. Of households, 50.4% owned their home and 49.6% rented.
### Whose traditional territory is Vancouver-Hastings on?
The Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam Nations each describe territory that takes in Burrard Inlet, which forms the northern edge of Vancouver-Hastings. Tsleil-Waututh calls itself the People of the Inlet. Squamish says its territory includes all of Burrard Inlet. Musqueam's 1976 declaration includes the watershed that drains into it. The Vancouver School Board's χpey̓ Elementary acknowledges all three Nations.
### What is Hastings Park in Vancouver-Hastings?
Hastings Park is the park in Vancouver-Hastings where the Pacific National Exhibition has held its summer fair since 1910. The Canadian Encyclopedia says the first fair opened on 16 August 1910 and drew 68,000 people. The park also holds Playland, the Pacific Coliseum and a race course that has held horse races since 1892, according to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation.
### What happened at Hastings Park in 1942?
Hastings Park in Vancouver-Hastings was a detention site for Japanese Canadians in 1942. The Nikkei National Museum says over 8,000 Japanese Canadians were held there before being sent to internment sites in the interior of British Columbia or to work camps. Canada's Register of Historic Places says the Livestock Building held women and children, and the Forum held men and boys aged 12 to 17.
### When did Hastings join the City of Vancouver?
The landowners of the Hastings Townsite, in today's Vancouver-Hastings, voted 1,200 to 1 in December 1911 to join the City of Vancouver, according to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation. The townsite was a government town reserve laid out from 1863 east of Nanaimo Street. The City of Vancouver says the Hastings part of Hastings-Sunrise was built up with houses in the 1920s.
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. [Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871 to 1986 (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
9. [Electoral History of British Columbia, Supplement, 1987 to 2001 (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1987-2001-ElectionHistory.pdf)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
10. [Electoral History of British Columbia, Supplement, 2002 to 2013 (opens in a new tab)](https://elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/2002-2013-ElectionHistory.pdf)Elections BC · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
11. [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
12. [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
13. [About Tsleil-Waututh Nation (opens in a new tab)](https://twnation.ca/about/)Tsleil-Waututh Nation (səlilwətaɬ) · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
14. [Our Land (opens in a new tab)](https://www.squamish.net/about-us/our-land/)Squamish Nation (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw) · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
15. [Musqueam Territory (opens in a new tab)](https://www.musqueam.bc.ca/our-story/our-territory/)Musqueam Indian Band (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
16. [Hastings-Sunrise (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/hastings-sunrise.aspx)City of Vancouver · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
17. [Grandview-Woodland (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/grandview-woodland.aspx)City of Vancouver · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
18. [New Brighton Park Shoreline Habitat Restoration Project: in-depth (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/parks-recreation-culture/new-brighton-park-shoreline-habitat-restoration-in-depth.aspx)City of Vancouver · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
19. [Hastings Community Centre summer 2023 recreation guide (opens in a new tab)](https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/hastings-summer-recreation-guide.pdf)City of Vancouver and Hastings Community Association · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
20. [Heritage House Tour 2021: Hastings-Sunrise (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vancouverheritagefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/HHTour-2021-Hastings-Sunrise-web-HR-REV2.pdf)Vancouver Heritage Foundation · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
21. [Vancouver Technical School, 2600 E Broadway (opens in a new tab)](https://www.heritagesitefinder.ca/location/2600-e-broadway-vancouver-bc)Vancouver Heritage Foundation · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
22. [Hastings Park (opens in a new tab)](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=23238)Parks Canada, Canadian Register of Historic Places · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
23. [Park Grocery and Woodside Apartments (opens in a new tab)](https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=20665)Parks Canada, Canadian Register of Historic Places · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
24. [Hastings Park Commemorative Project (opens in a new tab)](https://centre.nikkeiplace.org/exhibits/hastings-park-commemorative-project/)Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
25. [Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) (opens in a new tab)](https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pacific-national-exhibition-pne)The Canadian Encyclopedia · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
26. [Miracle Mile, Encyclopedia of British Columbia (opens in a new tab)](https://www.knowbc.com/knowbc/Books/Encyclopedia-of-BC/M/Miracle-Mile)Harbour Publishing (KnowBC) · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
27. [Pacific Coliseum, Encyclopedia of British Columbia (opens in a new tab)](https://www.knowbc.com/limited/Books/Encyclopedia-of-BC/P/Pacific-Coliseum)Harbour Publishing (KnowBC) · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
28. [Hastings Park Master Plan (opens in a new tab)](https://pne.ca/?p=1105)Pacific National Exhibition · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
29. [Vancouver Technical Secondary School history (opens in a new tab)](https://vsb.bc.ca/vancouver-technical/school-history)Vancouver School Board · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
30. [χpey̓ Elementary School, about us (opens in a new tab)](https://www.vsb.bc.ca/xpey/about-us)Vancouver School Board · read Thursday, October 8, 2026
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