HONOURABLE SUZANNE ANTON
MINISTER OF JUSTICE

BILL 42 – 2015

ELECTORAL DISTRICTS ACT

Contents
1  Number of electoral districts
2  Names of electoral districts
3  Boundaries of electoral districts
4  Area of electoral districts
5  Repeal of former Act
6  Commencement
Schedule 1
Schedule 2

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

Number of electoral districts

1  There are to be 87 electoral districts, with one member of the Legislative Assembly to be elected for each.

Names of electoral districts

2  The names of the electoral districts are those specified in Schedule 1.

Boundaries of electoral districts

3  The boundaries of the electoral districts are those specified in Schedule 2.

Area of electoral districts

4  The area of an electoral district consists of that part of the Province comprised within the boundaries of the electoral district.

Repeal of former Act

5  The Electoral Districts Act, S.B.C. 2008, c. 14, is repealed and the electoral districts under that Act are disestablished.

Commencement

6  This Act comes into force on the day the 40th Parliament is dissolved.

Schedule 1

Names of Electoral Districts

Abbotsford-Mission      Parksville-Qualicum
Abbotsford South   Peace River North
Abbotsford West   Peace River South
Boundary-Similkameen   Penticton
Burnaby-Deer Lake   Port Coquitlam
Burnaby-Edmonds   Port Moody-Coquitlam
Burnaby-Lougheed   Powell River-Sunshine Coast
Burnaby North   Prince George-Mackenzie
Cariboo-Chilcotin   Prince George-Valemount
Cariboo North   Richmond North Centre
Chilliwack   Richmond-Queensborough
Chilliwack-Kent   Richmond South Centre
Columbia River-Revelstoke   Richmond-Steveston
Coquitlam-Burke Mountain   Saanich North and the Islands
Coquitlam-Maillardville   Saanich South
Courtenay-Comox   Shuswap
Cowichan Valley   Skeena
Delta North   Stikine
Delta South   Surrey-Cloverdale
Esquimalt-Metchosin   Surrey-Fleetwood
Fraser-Nicola   Surrey-Green Timbers
Kamloops-North Thompson   Surrey-Guildford
Kamloops-South Thompson   Surrey-Newton
Kelowna-Lake Country   Surrey-Panorama
Kelowna-Mission   Surrey South
Kelowna West   Surrey-Whalley
Kootenay East   Surrey-White Rock
Kootenay West   Vancouver-Fairview
Langford-Juan de Fuca   Vancouver-False Creek
Langley   Vancouver-Fraserview
Langley East   Vancouver-Hastings
Maple Ridge-Mission   Vancouver-Kensington
Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows   Vancouver-Kingsway
Mid Island-Pacific Rim   Vancouver-Langara
Nanaimo   Vancouver-Mount Pleasant
Nanaimo-North Cowichan   Vancouver-Point Grey
Nechako Lakes   Vancouver-Quilchena
Nelson-Creston   Vancouver-West End
New Westminster   Vernon-Monashee
North Coast   Victoria-Beacon Hill
North Island   Victoria-Swan Lake
North Vancouver-Lonsdale   West Vancouver-Capilano
North Vancouver-Seymour   West Vancouver-Sea to Sky
Oak Bay-Gordon Head    

Schedule 2

Areas and Boundaries of Electoral Districts

The electoral districts listed in Schedule 1 have the areas and boundaries as described in the CD-ROM entitled "Official Digital Version of Electoral District Maps prepared by the BC Electoral Boundaries Commission" and dated September 24, 2015, on file with the Chief Electoral Officer.