Mission—Coquitlam

Mission—Coquitlam
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	1996
First contested	1988
Last contested	1993

Mission—Coquitlam was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997.

This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Mission—Port Moody riding.

It was abolished in 1996 when it was merged into Dewdney—Alouette riding.

It consisted of:

the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District;
the part of Coquitlam District Municipality lying east of the Coquitlam River;
the part of the City of Port Coquitlam lying north and east of the Canadian Pacific Railway right-of way.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Mission—Port Moody
34th	1988–1993	Joy Langan	New Democratic
35th	1993–1997	Daphne Jennings	Reform
Riding dissolved into Dewdney—Alouette

1993 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Daphne Jennings	20,171	36.74	+35.04
	Liberal	Mae Cabott	14,752	26.87	+13.78
	New Democratic	Joy Langan	9,206	16.77	-26.98
	Progressive Conservative	A.M. Sandy MacDougall	6,444	11.74	-27.76
	National	Mike Shields	2,736	4.98	–
	Christian Heritage	Tim Bonner	477	0.87	-0.72
	Green	Rose Bennett	398	0.72	–
	Independent	Matt Deacon	294	0.54	–
	Libertarian	D'Arcy James Flannery	228	0.42	+0.05
	Independent	E. Chum Richardson	134	0.24	–
	Independent	Stephen Clews	67	0.12	–
Total valid votes			54,907	100.0
	Reform gain from New Democratic		Swing		+10.63

1988 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Joy Langan	22,259	43.75
	Progressive Conservative	Gerry St. Germain	20,097	39.50
	Liberal	Mae Cabott	6,660	13.09
	Reform	Donald Sherling	864	1.70
	Christian Heritage	Donna Pickering	807	1.59
	Libertarian	Lewis C. Dahlby	190	0.37
Total valid votes			50,877	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Mission—Port Moody, where Progressive Conservative Gerry St. Germain was the incumbent.

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