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Oak Bay-Gordon Head is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

Contents

1 Demographics
2 Geography
3 History
4 Member of Legislative Assembly
5 Election results
6 External links

Demographics

Population, 2001	47,814
Population Change, 1996–2001	0.2%
Area (km²)	30
Pop. Density (people per km²)	1,598

Geography

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History

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Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Hon. Ida Chong, a former municipal councillor for the District of Saanich. She was first elected in 1996 and represents the British Columbia Liberal Party. Ms. Chong was appointed Minister of Advanced Education on December 15, 2004. She has previously served as Minister of State for Women's and Seniors' Services. After re-election in 2005, she was appointed Minister of Community Services, and Minister Responsible for Women's and Senior's Services. She was again re-elected in 2009.

Election results

B.C. General Election 2009: Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BC Liberal	Ida Chong	11,877	46.64%	-1.16%
	New Democrat	Jessica Van der Veen	11,316	44.45%	+2.14%
	Green	Steven Johns	2,330	8.91%	+0.65%
Total valid votes

B.C. General Election 2005 Initial Count: Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BC Liberal	Ida Chong	12,911	47.80%
	NDP	Charley Beresford	11,430	42.31%
	Green	Stephen Hender	2,232	8.26%
	DRBC	Lyne England	268	0.99%
	Independent	Lindsay Budge	171	0.63%
Total			27,012	100.00%

B.C. General Election 2001: Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	BC Liberal	Ida Chong	14,588	57.31%		$40,994
	NDP	Charley Beresford	5,789	22.74%		$30,917
	Green	Christin Geall	4,666	18.33%		$4,291
	Marijuana	Michael "Mik" Mann	411	1.62%		$583
Total Valid Votes			25,454	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			93	0.37%
Turnout			25,547	75.54%

B.C. General Election 1996: Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	BC Liberal	Ida Chong	12,340	46.59%		$52,261
	NDP	Elizabeth Cull	11,700	44.17%		$45,690
	PDA	Gordon Henderson	937	3.54%		$305
	BC Reform	Paul Yewchuk	675	2.55%		$11,324
	Green	Lenora Burke	566	2.14%		$1,903
	Family Coalition	Alan Idler	56	0.21%		$225
	Social Credit	John van Dyk	48	0.18%		$3,796
	Independent	John Ernest Currie	48	0.18%		$244
	Natural Law	Gary Zak	47	0.18%		$165
	Independent	Casey Edge	35	0.13%		$604
	No Affiliation	Nicholas Varzeliotis	35	0.13%		$1,645
Total Valid Votes			26,487	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			123	0.46%
Turnout			26,610	79.49%

B.C. General Election 1991: Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Elizabeth Cull	10,522	39.61%		$42,729
	BC Liberal	Paul McKivett	9,685	36.46%		$11,068
	Social Credit	Susan Brice	5,556	20.91%		$43,573
	BC Reform	Terry Milne	604	2.27%		$7,043
	Family Coalition	Kathleen Toth	157	0.59%		$539
	Human Race	John Currie	42	0.16%		$8
Total Valid Votes			26,566	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			422	1.56%
Turnout			26,988	83.16%

Oak Bay-Gordon Head Byelection, Dec. 13 1989
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	NDP	Elizabeth Cull	10,807	45.26%
	BC Liberal	Paul McKivett	10,430	9.11%
	Social Credit	Susan Brice	10,430	43.68%
	Green	Garth Lenz	328	1.37%
	Human Race Party	Louis Lesosky	20	0.08%
	Independent	Roland Isaacs	117	0.49%
Total Valid Votes			23,876	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			242	1.56%
Eligible Voters			32,351
Turnout				73.80%

B.C. General Election 1986: Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Brian Ray Douglas Smith	14,008	52.50%
	NDP	Muriel Agnes Overgaard	9,580	35.91%
	Progressive Conservative	Irvin Kimball Burbank	1,678	6.29%
	BC Liberal	Matthew Julian	635	2.38%
	WCC	Tom Pappajohn	515	1.93%
	Independent	Ernest A. LeCours	201	0.75%
	Independent	Russel Ellsworth Downe	63	0.24%
Total Valid Votes			26,680	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			237
Turnout			26,988	83.16%

B.C. General Election 1979: Oak Bay-Gordon Head
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Brian Ray Douglas Smith	12,730	49.43%
	NDP	Muriel Agnes Overgaard	6,741	26.17%
	Progressive Conservative	Victor Albert Stephens	6,284	24.40%
Total Valid Votes			24,755	100.00%
Total Rejected Ballots			497
Turnout

External links

v · d · eBritish Columbia provincial electoral districts (2009–)

North / Central	Cariboo-Chilcotin • Cariboo North • Nechako Lakes • North Coast • Peace River North • Peace River South • Prince George-Mackenzie • Prince George-Valemount • Skeena • Stikine

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen • Columbia River-Revelstoke • Kamloops-North Thompson • Kamloops-South Thompson • Kelowna-Lake Country • Kelowna-Mission • Kootenay East • Kootenay West • Fraser-Nicola • Nelson-Creston • Penticton • Shuswap • Vernon-Monashee • Westside-Kelowna

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Mission • Abbotsford South • Abbotsford West • Chilliwack • Chilliwack-Hope • Delta North • Delta South • Fort Langley-Aldergrove • Langley • Maple Ridge-Mission • Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows • Richmond Centre • Richmond East • Richmond-Steveston • Surrey-Cloverdale • Surrey-Fleetwood • Surrey-Green Timbers • Surrey-Newton • Surrey-Panorama • Surrey-Tynehead • Surrey-Whalley • Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Deer Lake • Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby-Lougheed • Burnaby North • Coquitlam-Burke Mountain • Coquitlam-Maillardville • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Lonsdale • North Vancouver-Seymour • Port Coquitlam • Port Moody-Coquitlam • Vancouver-Fairview • Vancouver-False Creek • Vancouver-Fraserview • Vancouver-Hastings • Vancouver-Kensington • Vancouver-Kingsway • Vancouver-Langara • Vancouver-Mount Pleasant • Vancouver-Point Grey • Vancouver-Quilchena • Vancouver-West End • West Vancouver-Capilano • West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni-Pacific Rim • Comox Valley • Cowichan Valley • Esquimalt-Royal Roads • Juan de Fuca • Nanaimo • Nanaimo-North Cowichan • North Island • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Parksville-Qualicum • Powell River-Sunshine Coast • Saanich North and the Islands • Saanich South • Victoria-Beacon Hill • Victoria-Swan Lake

See also:	Electoral boundary redistribution of 2008 • List of British Columbia general elections • 2009 general election • Defunct districts

v · d · eBritish Columbia provincial electoral districts (2001–2009)

North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine • Cariboo North • Cariboo South • North Coast • Peace River North • Peace River South • Prince George-Mount Robson • Prince George North • Prince George-Omineca • Skeena

Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke • East Kootenay • Kamloops • Kamloops-North Thompson • Kelowna-Lake Country • Kelowna-Mission • Nelson-Creston • Okanagan-Westside • Okanagan-Vernon • Penticton-Okanagan Valley • Shuswap • West Kootenay-Boundary • Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Clayburn • Abbotsford-Mount Lehman • Chilliwack-Kent • Chilliwack-Sumas • Delta North • Delta South • Fort Langley-Aldergrove • Langley • Maple Ridge-Mission • Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows • Richmond Centre • Richmond East • Richmond-Steveston • Surrey-Cloverdale • Surrey-Green Timbers • Surrey-Newton • Surrey-Panorama Ridge • Surrey-Tynehead • Surrey-Whalley • Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Burquitlam • Coquitlam-Maillardville • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Lonsdale • North Vancouver-Seymour • Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain • Port Moody-Westwood • Vancouver-Burrard • Vancouver-Fairview • Vancouver-Fraserview • Vancouver-Hastings • Vancouver-Kensington • Vancouver-Kingsway • Vancouver-Langara • Vancouver-Mount Pleasant • Vancouver-Point Grey • Vancouver-Quilchena • West Vancouver-Capilano • West Vancouver-Garibaldi

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni-Qualicum • Comox Valley • Cowichan-Ladysmith • Esquimalt-Metchosin • Malahat-Juan de Fuca • Nanaimo • Nanaimo-Parksville • North Island • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Powell River-Sunshine Coast • Saanich North and the Islands • Saanich South • Victoria-Beacon Hill • Victoria-Hillside

See also:	1999 electoral redistribution • 2001 general election • 2005 general election • 2008 electoral redistribution • Defunct districts

v · d · eBritish Columbia provincial electoral districts (1991–2001)

North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine • Cariboo North • Cariboo South • North Coast • Peace River North • Peace River South • Prince George-Mount Robson • Prince George North • Prince George-Omineca • Skeena

Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke • Kamloops • Kamloops-North Thompson • Kootenay • Nelson-Creston • Okanagan-Boundary • Okanagan East • Okanagan-Penticton • Okanagan-Vernon • Okanagan West • Shuswap • Rossland-Trail • Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford • Chilliwack • Delta North • Delta South • Fort Langley-Aldergrove • Langley • Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows • Matsqui • Mission-Kent • Richmond Centre • Richmond East • Richmond-Steveston • Surrey-Cloverdale • Surrey-Green Timbers • Surrey-Newton • Surrey-Whalley • Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Coquitlam-Maillardville • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Lonsdale • North Vancouver-Seymour • Port Coquitlam • Port Moody-Burnaby Mountain • Vancouver-Burrard • Vancouver-Fraserview • Vancouver-Hastings • Vancouver-Kensington • Vancouver-Kingsway • Vancouver-Langara • Vancouver-Little Mountain • Vancouver-Mount Pleasant • Vancouver-Point Grey • Vancouver-Quilchena • West Vancouver-Capilano • West Vancouver-Garibaldi

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni • Comox Valley • Cowichan-Ladysmith • Esquimalt-Metchosin • Malahat-Juan de Fuca • Nanaimo • North Island • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Parksville-Qualicum • Powell River-Sunshine Coast • Saanich North and the Islands • Saanich South • Victoria-Beacon Hill • Victoria-Hillside

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections • 1991 general election • 1996 general election • Defunct districts

v · d · eBritish Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)

North / Central	Atlin • Cariboo ‡ • North Peace River • Omineca • Prince George North • Prince George South • Prince Rupert • Skeena • South Peace River

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ • Columbia River • Kamloops ‡ • Kootenay • Nelson-Creston • Okanagan North • Okanagan South ‡ • Rossland-Trail • Shuswap-Revelstoke • Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ • Chilliwack • Delta ‡ • Dewdney ‡ • Langley ‡ • Richmond ‡ • Surrey (2) †

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Coquitlam-Moody • Maillardville-Coquitlam • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Capilano • North Vancouver-Seymour • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (2) • Vancouver South (2) • West Vancouver-Howe Sound

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni • Comox • Cowichan-Malahat • Esquimalt-Port Renfrew • Mackenzie • Nanaimo ‡ • North Island • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Saanich and the Islands ‡ • Victoria (2)

Notes	‡ - from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † - from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies: Surrey-Guildford-Whalley • Surrey-Newton • Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections • 1979 general election • 1983 general election • 1986 general election • Defunct districts

v · d · eBritish Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)

North / Central	Atlin • Cariboo • Fort George • North Peace River • Omineca • Prince Rupert • Skeena • South Peace River

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen • Columbia River • Kamloops • Kootenay • Nelson-Creston • North Okanagan • Revelstoke-Slocan • Rossland-Trail • South Okanagan • Shuswap • Yale-Lillooet

Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Chilliwack • Coquitlam • Delta • Dewdney • Langley • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Capilano • North Vancouver-Seymour • Richmond • Surrey • Vancouver-Burrard (2) • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (2) • Vancouver South (2) • West Vancouver-Howe Sound

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni • Comox • Cowichan-Malahat • Esquimalt • Mackenzie • Nanaimo • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Saanich and the Islands • Victoria (2)

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections • 1966 general election • 1969 general election • 1972 general election • 1975 general election • Defunct districts

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