Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam, BC — 2015 Federal Election Results Map
Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam — 2015 Election Results
📌 The Canadian federal electoral district of Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam was contested in the 2015 election.
🏆 Ron McKinnon, the Liberal candidate, won the riding with 19,938 votes (35.3% of the vote).
🥈 The runner-up was Douglas Horne (Conservative) with 18,083 votes (32.0%), defeated by a margin of 1,855 votes.
📊 Other notable candidates: Sara Norman (NDP-New Democratic Party, 27%).
Riding information
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Created in the 2012 redistribution, Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam sits at the eastern edge of Metro Vancouver where the Fraser, Coquitlam, and Pitt rivers converge beneath the Coquitlam Mountains. The riding encompasses the City of Port Coquitlam and the northern portion of Coquitlam above Highway 7A, a suburban landscape of residential neighbourhoods, parks, and light industrial areas that has grown rapidly as Metro Vancouver expanded eastward.
Candidates
Ron McKinnon (Liberal) — A technology professional with a background in systems analysis, McKinnon held a Bachelor of Science from the University of Alberta and a diploma in computer technology from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. He had previously run for the Liberals in Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam in 2008, and won the newly created Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam seat in 2015.
Douglas Horne (Conservative) — A former BC Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain from 2009 to 2015, Horne resigned his provincial seat in August 2015 to contest the federal riding. He brought name recognition from six years representing part of the same community at the provincial level.
Sara Norman (NDP) — A former broadcast journalist with News1130 and CKNW in Metro Vancouver, Norman won a Ron Laidlaw Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association in 2014. She campaigned on affordability and family-focused policy.
Brad Nickason (Green Party) and Lewis Clarke Dahlby (Libertarian) also ran.
About the Riding
Port Coquitlam, with a population of roughly 58,000, evolved from a railway town at the junction of the CPR main line into a family-oriented suburban city. Its downtown has undergone revitalization, and the community hosts the annual May Day celebration, one of the longest-running in the Lower Mainland. The city's Traboulay PoCo Trail encircles the municipality along the riverfront and dike systems.
The Coquitlam portion of the riding includes the rapidly developing Burke Mountain neighbourhood and established areas along the Lougheed Highway corridor. The Coquitlam watershed, located within the riding's mountainous northern reaches, supplies approximately one-third of Metro Vancouver's drinking water.
Federal issues in 2015 included transit expansion — the Evergreen Extension of SkyTrain was under construction to serve adjacent communities — housing affordability amid surging Metro Vancouver real estate prices, and infrastructure investment to manage growth in one of the region's fastest-developing suburban corridors.
