Burnaby Central

Burnaby Central is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada. Its boundaries came into effect upon the call of the 2025 Canadian federal election.

Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding replaced Burnaby South.^[2] Its differences from that riding are as follows:

Gained the Sullivan Heights area as far west as Arden Avenue from Burnaby North—Seymour
Gained the part of Burnaby west of Canada Way and north of the Kingsway from New Westminster—Burnaby
Lost all of Burnaby south of both Imperial Street and Kingsway to Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby.^[1]

Demographics

According to the 2021 Canadian census^[3]

Languages: 41.4% English, 14.5% Mandarin, 10.5% Cantonese, 3.8% Korean, 3.2% Tagalog, 2.7% Persian, 2.3% Spanish, 1.6% Punjabi, 1.5% Serbo-Croatian, 1.3% Portuguese, 1.3% Vietnamese, 1.3% Russian, 1.1% Hindi, 1.1% French

Religions: 48.1% No religion, 34.2% Christian (14.5% Catholic, 2.7% Christian Orthodox, 1.1% Anglican, 1.0% United Church, 14.8% Other), 6.9% Muslim, 3.8% Buddhist, 3.6% Hindu, 2.1% Sikh

Median income: $37,200 (2020)

Average income: $49,680 (2020)

Panethnic groups in Burnaby Central (2021)
Panethnic group	2021
Panethnic group	Pop.	%
East Asian^[a]	47,525	39.6%
European^[b]	32,760	27.3%
South Asian	11,660	9.72%
Southeast Asian^[c]	11,070	9.22%
Middle Eastern^[d]	5,235	4.36%
Latin American	3,275	2.73%
African	2,675	2.23%
Indigenous	2,010	1.67%
Other/multiracial^[e]	3,805	3.17%
Total responses	120,020	99.39%
Total population	120,755	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

History

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Burnaby Central Riding created from Burnaby North—Seymour, Burnaby South, and New Westminster—Burnaby
45th	2025–present		Wade Chang	Liberal

Electoral results

2025 general election

v t e 2025 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Wade Chang	21,745	42.23	+10.98
	Conservative	James Yan	19,889	38.62	+16.46
	New Democratic	Jagmeet Singh	9,353	18.16	−21.62
	People's	Richard Farbridge	506	0.98	−2.40
Total valid votes/expense limit			51,493	99.17
Total rejected ballots			430	0.83
Turnout			51,923	61.61
Eligible voters			84,278
	Liberal notional gain from New Democratic		Swing		+16.30
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]
Note: number of eligible voters does not include voting day registrations.

Transposed result of the 2021 general election

2021 federal election redistributed results^[6]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	15,921	39.78
	Liberal	12,507	31.25
	Conservative	8,868	22.16
	People's	1,353	3.38
	Green	1,168	2.92
	Others	210	0.52

v t e Federal ridings in Greater Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast
Liberal	Burnaby Central Burnaby North—Seymour Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville North Vancouver—Capilano Port Moody—Coquitlam Vancouver Centre Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby Vancouver Granville Vancouver Quadra West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country
New Democratic	Vancouver East Vancouver Kingsway

v t e List of federal ridings in British Columbia
British Columbia Interior	Cariboo—Prince George Columbia—Kootenay—Southern Rockies Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola Kelowna Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay Skeena—Bulkley Valley Vernon—Lake Country—Monashee
Fraser Valley and the Southern Lower Mainland	Abbotsford—South Langley Chilliwack—Hope Cloverdale—Langley City Delta Fleetwood—Port Kells Langley Township—Fraser Heights Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge Richmond Centre—Marpole Richmond East—Steveston South Surrey—White Rock Surrey Centre Surrey Newton
Vancouver and the Northern Lower Mainland	Burnaby Central Burnaby North—Seymour Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville North Vancouver—Capilano Port Moody—Coquitlam Vancouver Centre Vancouver East Vancouver Granville Vancouver Kingsway Vancouver Quadra Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country
Vancouver Island	Courtenay—Alberni Cowichan—Malahat—Langford Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke Nanaimo—Ladysmith North Island—Powell River Saanich—Gulf Islands Victoria

Demographics

History

Members of Parliament

Electoral results

Student vote results

2025

References

Notes

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