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Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam

Federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam

British Columbia electoral district
Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam in relation to other Greater Vancouver federal electoral ridings.
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	2003
District abolished	2012
First contested	2004
Last contested	2011
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]	129,706
Electors (2011)	79,772
Area (km²)[2]	649.35
Census division(s)	Greater Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Greater Vancouver A, Coquitlam 2, Anmore, Belcarra

Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam was a federal electoral districtinBritish Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 2004 to 2015.

Demographics[edit]

Consisting of the following parts of the Greater Vancouver Regional District:

(a) the villages of Anmore and Belcarra;

(b) the City of Port Coquitlam;

(c) the following parts of Subdivision A:

(i) that part lying easterly of Indian Arm and the Indian River and northerly of the City of Coquitlam and the Village of Anmore;

(ii) that part on the north shoreline of Burrard Inlet within the City of Port Moody;

(iii) Boulder Island;

(d) that part of the City of Coquitlam lying northerly of Highway No. 7A (Barnet Highway, Lougheed Highway);

(e) that part of the City of Port Moody lying northerly of a line described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the easterly limit of said city with Guildford Drive; thence westerly along said drive, its production and Murray Street to the southerly production of the most southeasterly point of Port Moody in Burrard Inlet (at Inlet Park); thence northerly along said production to said port; thence generally westerly along said port to the westerly limit of said city; and

(f) Coquitlam Indian Reserve No. 2.

History[edit]

This riding was created by the 2003 Representation Order from Port Moody—Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam riding.

The 2012 electoral redistribution will see this riding dissolved into Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam and Port Moody—Coquitlam for the 2015 election.

Members of Parliament[edit]

Current member of Parliament[edit]

Its member of Parliament was The Honourable James Moore, a former broadcaster. He was first elected in 2000, and is a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He was re-elected in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections. Moore was the Secretary of State for Official Languages, Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics before the cabinet shuffle announced on October 30, 2008, when he was appointed Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages.

Election results[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

References[edit]

• "Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam (Code 59021) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
• Expenditures - 2004
• Expenditures - 2000
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament

Notes[edit]

External links[edit]

• Website of the Parliament of Canada

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