Summary: One of Vancouver’s six ridings, NDP MP Don Davies is seeking a third term in Vancouver Kingsway.
Boundaries: An riding on the east side of Vancouver, it roughly encompasses everything between 16th Avenue, 41st Avenue, Main Street and Boundary Road.
Last Election: Davies defeated Conservative candidate Trang Nguyen by 22 per cent.
History: The area has alternated between voting for the NDP and Liberal Party through the decades. In 2006, MP David Emerson was re-elected here as a Liberal—only to switch to the Conservative Party when they offered a cabinet position weeks after the election.
Demographics: A diverse, working-class riding, Vancouver-Kingsway has the third highest average number of children per household (1.3) and the third lowest median income ($22,614) in B.C. 9.9 per cent of residents were immigrants from the Philippines in the 2011 National Household Survey, the fourth highest figure in the country.
Candidates
Conservative: Jojo Quimpo, musician and community organizer in the Filipino-Canadian community
NDP: Don Davies, MP since 2008
Liberal: Steven Kou, former executive director at the Bank of Montreal
Green: Catherine Moore
Marxist-Leninist: Donna Petersen
Libertarian: Matt Kadioglu
Communist: Kimball Cariou
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