Burnaby South

District created2013

District abolished2025

First contested2015

Burnaby South
British Columbia electoral district
Location in the Lower Mainland
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	2013
District abolished	2025
First contested	2015
Last contested	2021
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2016)^[1]	111,973
Electors (2019)	79,849
Area (km²)^[2]	46.08
Census division	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision	Burnaby

Burnaby South (French: Burnaby-Sud) was a federal electoral district in British Columbia. It encompasses a portion of British Columbia previously included in the electoral districts of Burnaby—Douglas and Burnaby—New Westminster.^[3]

Burnaby South was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, which took place in October 2015.^[4]

There was a by-election on February 25, 2019, to determine the Member of Parliament for Burnaby South,^[5] which was won by New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh.^[6] The seat was vacated by Kennedy Stewart, who resigned in September 2018 and won the 2018 Vancouver municipal election in October to become the mayor of Vancouver.^[7]^[8]

The district was replaced by Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby and Burnaby Central for the 2025 Canadian federal election.

As of the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution, the district includes the southwestern portion of the City of Burnaby and the eastern portion of the city between the Trans-Canada Highway and Highway 7. More specifically...

Consisting of that part of the City of Burnaby described as follows: commencing at the intersection of the westerly limit of said city with Lougheed Highway (Highway No. 7); thence generally easterly along said highway to the easterly limit of said city at North Road; thence southerly along North Road to the Trans-Canada Highway (Highway No. 1); thence generally westerly along said highway to the northeasterly production of Nursery Street; thence southwesterly along said production and Nursery Street to 6th Street; thence northwesterly along said street to Burris Street; thence southwesterly along said street to Walker Avenue; thence southeasterly along said avenue to Stanley Street; thence southerly in a straight line to the end of Griffiths Avenue; thence southerly along said avenue to Griffiths Drive; thence generally southerly along said drive to the southerly limit of said city at 10th Avenue; thence generally westerly and northerly along the southerly and westerly limits of said city to the point of commencement.^[9]

Demographics

Panethnic groups in Burnaby South (2011−2021)
Panethnic group	2021^[10]		2016^[11]		2011^[12]
Panethnic group	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
East Asian^[a]	51,350	43.09%	48,715	43.89%	40,780	39.14%
European^[b]	30,005	25.18%	33,345	30.04%	36,685	35.21%
South Asian	12,705	10.66%	9,315	8.39%	8,645	8.3%
Southeast Asian^[c]	10,740	9.01%	8,985	8.09%	8,395	8.06%
Middle Eastern^[d]	3,720	3.12%	3,030	2.73%	2,805	2.69%
Latin American	3,155	2.65%	2,045	1.84%	1,855	1.78%
African	1,820	1.53%	1,265	1.14%	1,405	1.35%
Indigenous	1,765	1.48%	1,575	1.42%	1,460	1.4%
Other^[e]	3,920	3.29%	2,710	2.44%	2,150	2.06%
Total responses	119,175	99.06%	111,000	99.13%	104,180	99.18%
Total population	120,305	100%	111,973	100%	105,037	100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses. Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years		Party
Burnaby South Riding created from Burnaby—Douglas and Burnaby—New Westminster
42nd	2015–2018	Kennedy Stewart	New Democratic
42nd	2019–2019	Jagmeet Singh
43rd	2019–2021
44th	2021–2025
Riding dissolved into Burnaby Central and Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby

Election results

Graph of election results in Burnaby South (2011–, minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

v t e 2021 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jagmeet Singh	16,382	40.34	+2.67	$81,111.34
	Liberal	Brea Huang Sami	12,361	30.44	+6.65	$97,095.22
	Conservative	Likky Lavji	9,104	22.42	–8.50	$42,968.01
	People's	Marcella Williams	1,290	3.18	+1.74	$5,043.08
	Green	Maureen Curran	1,175	2.89	–2.61	$839.33
	Independent	Martin Kendell	296	0.73	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			40,608	99.29	–	$110,662.02
Total rejected ballots			291	0.71	–0.21
Turnout			40,899	51.07	–5.49
Eligible voters			80,092
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–1.99
Source: Elections Canada^[13]^[14]

v t e 2019 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jagmeet Singh	16,956	37.68	–1.19	$94,274.04
	Conservative	Jay Shin	13,914	30.92	+8.31	$101,861.19
	Liberal	Neelam Brar	10,706	23.79	–2.21	$96,784.07
	Green	Brennan Wauters	2,477	5.50	–	$901.27
	People's	Al Rawdah	645	1.43	–9.21	none listed
	Libertarian	Rex Brocki	246	0.55	–	none listed
	Marxist–Leninist	Brian Sproule	62	0.14	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,006	99.08	–	$107,366.92
Total rejected ballots			417	0.92	+0.09
Turnout			45,423	56.56	+26.59
Eligible voters			80,312
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–1.70
Source: Elections Canada^[15]^[16]

v t e Canadian federal by-election, February 25, 2019 Resignation of Kennedy Stewart
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Jagmeet Singh	8,848	38.86	+3.79	$107,876.69
	Liberal	Richard Lee	5,919	26.00	–7.88	$120,398.75
	Conservative	Jay Shin	5,147	22.61	–4.51	$124,688.15
	People's	Laura-Lynn Tyler Thompson	2,422	10.64	–	$87,790.22
	Independent	Terry Grimwood	242	1.06	–	$5,983.61
	Independent	Valentine Wu	190	0.84	–	$704.17
Total valid votes/expense limit			22,768	99.17	–	$132,377.49
Total rejected ballots			190	0.83	+0.23
Turnout			22,958	29.96	–30.82
Eligible voters			76,618
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+5.84
Source: Elections Canada^[17]^[18]

v t e 2015 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Kennedy Stewart	16,094	35.07	–8.93	$177,796.68
	Liberal	Adam Pankratz	15,547	33.88	+22.16	$33,613.38
	Conservative	Grace Seear	12,441	27.11	–12.51	$83,392.49
	Green	Wyatt Tessari	1,306	2.85	–0.76	$790.18
	Libertarian	Liz Jaluague	499	1.09	–	none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit			45,887	99.40	–	$207,659.75
Total rejected ballots			275	0.60	–
Turnout			46,162	60.78	–
Eligible voters			75,950
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–15.55
Source: Elections Canada^[19]^[20]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[21]
Party		Vote	%
	New Democratic	16,072	44.0
	Conservative	14,471	39.6
	Liberal	4,280	11.7
	Green	1,316	3.6
	Others	385	1.1

v t e Historical federal ridings in British Columbia
Until 2025	Burnaby South Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo Kelowna—Lake Country North Okanagan—Shuswap Vancouver South
Until 2015	British Columbia Southern Interior Burnaby—Douglas Burnaby—New Westminster Delta—Richmond East Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca Langley Nanaimo—Alberni Nanaimo—Cowichan New Westminster—Coquitlam Newton—North Delta Okanagan—Coquihalla Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale Surrey North Vancouver Island North
Until 2004	Cariboo—Chilcotin Delta—South Richmond Fraser Valley Kamloops / Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys Langley—Abbotsford New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby Prince George—Bulkley Valley Skeena South Surrey—White Rock—Langley Surrey Central Vancouver South—Burnaby
Until 1997	Burnaby—Kingsway Capilano—Howe Sound Comox—Alberni Fraser Valley East Fraser Valley West Kootenay West—Revelstoke Mission—Coquitlam Okanagan Centre Okanagan—Similkameen—Merritt Surrey—White Rock—South Langley
Until 1988	Burnaby Capilano Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands Esquimalt—Saanich Kamloops—Shuswap Kootenay West Mission—Port Moody North Vancouver—Burnaby Okanagan North Okanagan—Similkameen Surrey—White Rock—North Delta Comox—Powell River
Until 1979	Burnaby—Richmond Burnaby—Seymour Coast Chilcotin Nanaimo (electoral district) Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands New Westminster Okanagan Boundary Okanagan—Kootenay Kamloops—Cariboo
Until 1968	Burnaby—Coquitlam Coast—Capilano Okanagan—Revelstoke Vancouver—Burrard
Until 1953	Yale
Until 1949	Vancouver North
Until 1925	Burrard Victoria City
Until 1917	Comox—Atlin Kootenay Vancouver City Yale—Cariboo
Until 1904	Vancouver
Until 1872	Cariboo District New Westminster District Vancouver Island Victoria District Yale District
Category

v t e Jagmeet Singh
Leader of the New Democratic Party (2017–2025) Member of Parliament for Burnaby South (2019–2025) Member of Provincial Parliament for Bramalea—Gore—Malton (2011–2017)
Leadership	Shadow cabinets 2017–2019 2019–2021 2021–2025 Parliaments 42nd 43rd 44th Party: New Democratic Federal election campaigns 2019 2021 2025 Liberal–NDP confidence and supply agreement Canadian Dental Care Plan Pharmacare proposal
Elections	2017 New Democratic Party leadership election 2019 Burnaby South federal by-election 2019 federal election 2021 federal election 2025 federal election (Burnaby Central)
Family	Gurratan Singh (brother)

Demographics

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

Notes

References

External links

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