New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby

New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1996
District abolished	2003
First contested	1997
Last contested	2000

New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004.

Geography

This was an urban riding that contained the city of New Westminster, and those parts of Burnaby lying southeast of the Trans-Canada Highway, and the southwestern portion of Coquitlam.

This riding was created in 1996 from parts of the electoral districts of New Westminster—Burnaby and Port Moody—Coquitlam.

This riding was used in the 1997 and 2000 federal elections.

In 2003, the district was abolished. Parts of it went into the electoral districts of New Westminster—Coquitlam, Burnaby—New Westminster and Burnaby—Douglas.

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from New Westminster—Burnaby and Port Moody—Coquitlam
36th	1997–2000	Paul Forseth	Reform
36th	2000–2000		Alliance
37th	2000–2003		Alliance
37th	2003–2004		Conservative
Riding dissolved into New Westminster—Coquitlam, and Burnaby—New Westminster

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Paul Forseth	20,698	43.96	+9.49	$44,293
	Liberal	Lee Rankin	14,579	30.96	+1.86	$64,668
	New Democratic	Lorrie Williams	7,076	15.03	-15.44	$30,701
	Progressive Conservative	Mike Redmond	3,492	4.71	+0.81	$11,866
	Green	François C. Nantel	1,028	2.18	+0.69	$86
	Communist	Hanne Gidora	109	0.23	–	$189
	Marxist–Leninist	Brian Sproule	93	0.19	-0.01	$10
Total valid votes			47,075	100.0
Total rejected ballots			206	0.44
Turnout			47,281	60.11
	Alliance hold		Swing		+3.82
Change for the Canadian Alliance is based on the Reform Party.

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Expenditures
	Reform	Paul Forseth	15,915	34.47	$28,885
	New Democratic	Dawn Black	14,067	30.47	$58,459
	Liberal	Celso Boscariol	13,437	29.10	$51,245
	Progressive Conservative	Debra Hicks	1,803	3.90	$12,174
	Green	Tom Hetherington	691	1.49	$374
	Natural Law	Daphne Quance	160	0.34
	Marxist–Leninist	Elaine Wismer	93	0.20
Total valid votes			46,166	100.0
Total rejected ballots			210	0.45
Turnout			46,376	65.44
This riding was created from New Westminster—Burnaby and Port Moody—Coquitlam, both of which elected a Reform candidate in the previous election. Paul Forseth was the incumbent from New Westminster—Burnaby.

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