Juan de Fuca-Malahat
Provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
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Juan de Fuca-Malahat is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia since 2024.
 British Columbia electoral district | |||
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
| MLA | |||
| District created | 2023 | ||
| First contested | 2024 | ||
| Last contested | 2024 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2021) | 44,980 | ||
| Area (km²) | 3,116 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 14.4 | ||
| Census division(s) | Capital, Cowichan Valley | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Metchosin, Sooke, Becher Bay, Cowichan, Malahat, T'Sou-ke | ||
Created under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, it has near-identical boundaries to the former electoral district of Malahat-Juan de Fuca, which existed from 1991 to 2009.[1]
Geography
The district comprises the southern tip of Vancouver Island, including the communities of Sooke, Metchosin, Malahat, Shawnigan Lake, Cobble Hill, and Mill Bay, and extending east as far as Port Renfrew. It is bounded by the Saanich Inlet and Trans-Canada Highway to the east, and the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the south.
Demographics
| Population, 2021 | 44,980 |
| Area (km2) | 3,116 |
| Pop. density (people per km2) | 14 |
| Source: BC Electoral Boundaries Commission[2] | |
History
Malahat-Juan de Fuca was created prior to the 1991 election from parts of Esquimalt-Port Renfrew and Cowichan-Malahat, and it was contested from 1991 to 2009. The district was abolished in the 2008 British Columbia electoral redistribution, with its territory being allocated between Juan de Fuca and Cowichan Valley.
The riding was re-established in 2023 as one of six new electoral districts in the province following the results of the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution. It was created out of parts of Langford-Juan de Fuca, Cowichan Valley and Esquimalt-Metchosin.
Members of the Legislative Assembly
This district has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
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| Malahat-Juan de Fuca Riding created from Cowichan-Malahat and Esquimalt-Port Renfrew |
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| 35th | 1991–1996 | Rick Kasper | New Democratic | |
| 36th | 1996–2001 | |||
| 2001–2001 | Independent | |||
| 37th | 2001–2005 | Brian Kerr | Liberal | |
| 38th | 2005–2009 | John Horgan | New Democratic | |
| Riding dissolved into Juan de Fuca and Cowichan Valley | ||||
| Juan de Fuca-Malahat Riding re-created from Cowichan Valley, Esquimalt-Metchosin, and Langford-Juan de Fuca |
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| 43rd | 2024–2026 | Dana Lajeunesse | New Democratic | |
Election results
Juan de Fuca-Malahat
| 2026 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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| The 2026 general election will be held on October 24. | ||||||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Christian Heritage | Jeff Brown | |||||||
| Green | David Evans | |||||||
| OneBC | Shane Friesen | |||||||
| Conservative | Mike Hicks | |||||||
| New Democratic | Dana Lajeunesse | |||||||
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| Registered voters | ||||||||
| Source: Elections BC | ||||||||
| 2024 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| New Democratic | Dana Lajeunesse | 9,308 | 38.79 | -13.4 | $46,931.79 | |||
| Conservative | Marina Sapozhnikov | 9,167 | 38.20 | – | $18,521.77 | |||
| Green | David Evans | 5,522 | 23.01 | -10.4 | $31,663.56 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 23,997 | 99.87 | – | $71,700.08 | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 32 | 0.13 | – | |||||
| Turnout | 24,029 | 64.81 | – | |||||
| Registered voters | 37,078 | |||||||
| New Democratic notional hold | Swing | -25.8 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[3][4] | ||||||||
| 2020 provincial election redistributed results[5] | |||
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| Party | % | ||
| New Democratic | 52.2 | ||
| Green | 33.4 | ||
| Liberal | 14.0 | ||
Malahat-Juan de Fuca
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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| NDP | Rick Kasper | 8,579 | 44.18% | $50,715 | ||
| Liberal | Tom Morino | 7,639 | 39.34% | $8,288 | ||
| Social Credit | R. E. Bob Clark | 2,628 | 13.53% | – | $38,891 | |
| Green | Beverley A. Holden | 380 | 1.96% | – | $2,481 | |
| Western Canada Concept | Richard (Dick) Lewers | 125 | 0.64% | $16 | ||
| Human Race | Louis J. Lesosky | 68 | 0.35% | $12 | ||
| Total valid votes | 19,419 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 432 | 2.18% | ||||
| Turnout | 19,851 | 76.82% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDP | Rick Kasper | 10,686 | 48.63% | $40,758 | ||
| Liberal | Mike Elcock | 7,556 | 34.39% | $43,672 | ||
| Reform | Bill Cools | 1,887 | 8.59% | $19,769 | ||
| Progressive Democrat | Donna Launay | 1,061 | 4.83% | – | $100 | |
| Green | Beverley Holden | 601 | 2.74% | – | $150 | |
| Independent | Louis James Lesosky | 98 | 0.45% | $124 | ||
| Western Canada Concept | Dode French | 84 | 0.38% | $100 | ||
| Total valid votes | 21,973 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 106 | 0.48% | ||||
| Turnout | 22,079 | 72.91% | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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| Liberal | Brian Kerr | 9,676 | 42.26% | $49,752 | ||
| Independent | Rick Kasper | 5,164 | 22.56% | $31,524 | ||
| NDP | Richard Hughes | 3,687 | 16.10% | $34,924 | ||
| Green | Stephen Bradley | 3,275 | 14.31% | – | $7,152 | |
| Marijuana | Ron Anderton | 547 | 2.39% | $100 | ||
| Unity | Julie L. M. Mander | 323 | 1.41% | $3,071 | ||
| Conservative | Susan Power | 222 | 0.97% | |||
| Total valid votes | 22,894 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 93 | 0.41% | ||||
| Turnout | 22,987 | 73.57% | ||||
| 2005 British Columbia general election: Malahat-Juan de Fuca | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| New Democratic | John Horgan | 12,460 | 46.09 | $42,953 | ||||
| Liberal | Cathy Basskin | 10,528 | 38.94 | $24,538 | ||||
| Green | Steven Hurdle | 2,610 | 9.65 | $1,488 | ||||
| Democratic Reform | Tom Morino | 1,256 | 4.65 | $2,775 | ||||
| Western Canada Concept | Pattie O'Brien | 180 | 0.67 | $100 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 27,034 | 100 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 128 | 0.47 | ||||||
| Turnout | 27,162 | 69.57
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