Mission—Port Moody

Mission—Port Moody was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988.

Mission—Port Moody

British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1976
District abolished	1987
First contested	1979
Last contested	1984

This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East and Fraser Valley West ridings.

It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Mission—Coquitlam and Port Moody—Coquitlam ridings.

It consisted of:

• the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District;
• the northwestern part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Fraser Valley East and Fraser Valley West
31st	1979–1980		Mark Rose	New Democratic
32nd	1980–1983
	1983–1984		Gerry St. Germain	Progressive Conservative
33rd	1984–1988
Riding dissolved into Mission—Coquitlam and Port Moody—Coquitlam

Election results

1984 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gerry St. Germain	30,678	47.53	-3.13
	New Democratic	Tom Beardsley	25,925	40.17	-2.80
	Liberal	Mae Cabott	7,071	10.96	+5.78
	Green	Richard Hennick	540	0.84	–
	Social Credit	Peggy Brown	327	0.51	–
Total valid votes			64,541	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-0.16

Canadian federal by-election, 29 August 1983 On the resignation of Mark Rose, 21 April 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Gerry St. Germain	21,590	50.66	+14.66
	New Democratic	Sophie Weremchuk	18,314	42.97	-4.22
	Liberal	Louis Duprat	2,207	5.18	-10.59
	Not affiliated	Betty Nickerson	508	1.19	–
Total valid votes			42,619	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from New Democratic		Swing		+9.44

1980 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Mark Rose	23,224	47.19	+3.36
	Progressive Conservative	Bill Otway	17,715	36.00	-2.87
	Liberal	Tom Spraggs	7,762	15.77	-1.21
	Social Credit	Michael Sulyma	358	0.73	–
	Communist	James Wm. Beynon	150	0.30	-0.02
Total valid votes			49,209	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+3.12

1979 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Mark Rose	20,847	43.83
	Progressive Conservative	Jack Campbell	18,486	38.87
	Liberal	Tom Spraggs	8,078	16.98
	Communist	James Wm. Beynon	152	0.32
Total valid votes			47,563	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Fraser Valley East and Fraser Valley West, both of which elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election.

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
• Website of the Parliament of Canada