Riding profile

Burnaby East

Provincial riding — BC · Metro Vancouver

The question

Burnaby East: a safe seat for the NDP?

Current forecast

NDP

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
8.2
P(close race)
10%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • NDP 46.3%
  • Con 38.1%
  • GP 10.0%
  • OneBC 3.0%
  • CentreBC 2.5%

Watch list

The tightest races

Smallest projected margin. Open one for the numbers.

  1. Surrey-FleetwoodNDP58 %2.0 pt margin
  2. Cowichan ValleyCon54 %2.0 pt margin
  3. Vancouver-LangaraCon62 %2.1 pt margin

In context

How this riding stacks up

NDP Con GP OneBC
HereBurnaby East 46.3%38.1%10.0%3.0%
Provincial averageBritish Columbia 39.5% +6.8 42.4% −4.2 9.9% +0.1 3.4% −0.4

Provincial averages computed across the 93 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Editorial read

Burnaby East, a mixed riding in British Columbia, elected a member with the NDP in the previous cycle, with a 11-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the NDP ahead at 46% vote share, against 38% for the Conservatives, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

Reah Arora

Sits with NDP

Parliament
43th

Previous election · 2024

Won by
NDP
Margin
11.3 pts
Turnout
55.0%
Margin shift vs current projection
-3.2 pts

Detailed result · BC 2024

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Rohini Arora Elected NDP — 51.9 —
Simon Chandler Con — 40.5 —
Tara Shushtarian GP — 7.6 —
Last model run
Cycle
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