Burnaby South, BC — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Burnaby South — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Burnaby South was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Kennedy Stewart, the NDP-New Democratic Party candidate, won the riding with 16,094 votes (35.1% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Adam Pankratz (Liberal) with 15,547 votes (33.9%), defeated by a margin of 547 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Grace Seear (Conservative, 27%).
Riding information
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Burnaby South was a new federal riding established by the 2012 redistribution, covering the southern and central portions of the City of Burnaby. It stretches from the Trans-Canada Highway south to the Fraser River and from the Vancouver boundary east toward Coquitlam, encompassing the dense urban core around Metrotown — one of the largest shopping and residential centres in the Metro Vancouver region.
Candidates
Kennedy Stewart (NDP) — A political scientist, Stewart held a PhD from the London School of Economics and was on leave from a position at Simon Fraser University's School of Public Policy. He was first elected to Parliament in the former Burnaby—Douglas riding in 2011 and moved to the redrawn Burnaby South for the 2015 campaign.
Adam Pankratz (Liberal) — Pankratz held an MBA from UBC's Sauder School of Business and had worked in commercial banking and cash management at Coast Capital Savings credit union. He spoke four languages — English, French, Spanish, and German — and taught as a lecturer in the strategy and business economics division at the Sauder School.
Grace Seear (Conservative) — A former middle-school teacher, Seear had served as chief of staff to Senator Yonah Martin. She previously worked as the Conservative Party's executive coordinator before joining Martin's office.
Wyatt Tessari (Green Party) and Liz Jaluague (Libertarian) also sought election.
About the Riding
Burnaby South is among the most densely populated federal ridings in British Columbia. The Metrotown area, anchored by Metropolis at Metrotown mall, has undergone a dramatic high-rise construction boom, with dozens of residential towers transforming the skyline. The riding is served by two SkyTrain lines — the Expo and Millennium lines — making it one of the best transit-connected constituencies in the region. Burnaby's population is highly diverse, with large Chinese, Korean, and South Asian communities. The city is home to the headquarters of several major companies and the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Central Park, a 90-hectare urban green space, straddles the Vancouver–Burnaby boundary at the riding's western edge. Federal issues in 2015 included the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion — the Burnaby terminal sits just north of the riding boundary — housing affordability amid surging real estate prices, transit infrastructure funding, and immigrant settlement services.
