The riding, which includes the Downtown Eastside, Chinatown, Strathcona and Grandview-Woodland neighbourhoods, is known for its working class roots.
Voters have, apart from two brief flirtations with the Liberal party, elected NDP candidates every election since the party was founded back in 1961.
Here鈥檚 who鈥檚 running in 麻豆传媒映画East.
Deputy NDP leader Libby Davies, who held the seat from 1997 to 2015, chose to retire prior to the last election cycle, passing the torch to former NDP MLA Jenny Kwan who won handily. The riding is bound to the west by Main Street, Boundary Avenue to the east, 16th Avenue to south and the ocean to the north.
Here's who's running:
Communist Party
Peter Marcus
Peter Marcus has never met a ballot he didn鈥檛 like. A retired health care worker and poet, Marcus has run several times for virtually every level of political office. He centres his campaign around income disparity in the Downtown Eastside, which he refers to as a byproduct of 鈥渢he capitalist economic crisis.鈥� His platform calls for improvements to social and health services, better transit and instituting living wage union jobs. Marcus鈥檚 platform is not costed, nor does he say how he would implement those changes or improvements.
Peter Marcus is a retired health care worker and poet, Marcus has run several times for virtually every level of political office. Photo courtesy of Peter Marcus campaign
Conservative
Chris Corsetti
Chris Corsetti鈥檚 career arc has seen the lifelong Vancouverite work across the legal, financial and securities sectors. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Simon Fraser University along with a Juris Doctor degree from Bond University in Australia. A father of two, Corsetti has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 2012. His website contains no specifics around his platform other than to 鈥渁dvocate for putting issues that affect families first.鈥�
Chris Corsetti 鈥檚 career arc has seen the lifelong Vancouverite work across the legal, financial and securities sectors. Photo courtesy of Chris Corsetti campaign
Green Party
Bridget Burns
Bridget Burns was born and raised in East Vancouver, where she鈥檚 a business owner, server and bartender. Her charitable and volunteer work includes stints with a Downtown Eastside women鈥檚 shelter, the Union Gospel Mission, Boys and Girls Club and WISH Drop-in Centre Society. On the housing front, Burns pledges working towards 25,000 new builds, 15,000 rehabilitated homes every year, co-op housing and rental assistance and tax incentives for purpose-built rental housing. Burns also stands for decriminalizing drug possession in small amounts as well as a government-funded safe drug supply.
Bridget Burns was born and raised in East Vancouver, where she鈥檚 a business owner, server and bartender. Photo courtesy of Bridget Burns campaign
Liberal
Kyle Demes
Rookie candidate Kyle Demes has built a lengthy career in research and research administration, specifically in the areas of ecology and marine biology. Demes holds a PhD in zoology from UBC, where he previously worked as a teaching assistant and research advisor. Demes is now a director at SFU, where he leads a team in the development of large-scale research initiatives. His campaign promises include extending the Broadway subway out to UBC, creating a national speculation and vacancy tax for non-resident, non-Canadians and expanding the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive. Along with his partner Aaron, Demes lives in East Vancouver.
Rookie candidate Kyle Demes has built a lengthy career in research and research administration, specifically in the areas of ecology and marine biology. Photo courtesy of Kyle Demes campaign
Marxist-Leninist
Anne Jamieson
Anne Jamieson, a retired nurse with a PhD is sociology, has been with the party since its inception in 1971. She earned 190 votes in the 2015 election and 318 votes in 2011.
Anne Jamieson , a retired nurse with a PhD is sociology, has been with the party since its inception in 1971. Photo courtesy Anne Jamieson campaign
NDP (incumbent)
Jenny Kwan
Jenny Kwan is a career politician. She moved to Canada from Hong Kong as a child and, at age 26, became the youngest person in 麻豆传媒映画history to be elected to city council. In 1996, she became one of the first Chinese-Canadians to sit in the provincial legislature. After nearly 20 years as the NDP MLA for Vancouver-Mount Pleasant, Kwan easily won the 麻豆传媒映画East seat in 2015 by more than 8,600 votes. Kwan has also drawn controversy for playing a key role in the ousting of Carole James as provincial NDP party leader in 2010 and for an expense scandal in 2014 over her ex-husband Dan Small having billed the non-profit Portland Hotel Society for a family trip to Disneyland.
Jenny Kwan is a career politician. She moved to Canada from Hong Kong as a child and, at age 26, became the youngest person in 麻豆传媒映画history to be elected to city council. Photo: Dan Toulgoet
People鈥檚 Party
Karin Litzcke
The tenets at the top of Karin Litzcke鈥檚 website include: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fairness and respect. It continues on to state that 鈥淐anadian culture is worth defending鈥� and that the People鈥檚 Party has no place for pandering or political correctness. As for her platform locally, Litzcke believes citizens should be able to sue local and provincial governments for not living up to housing promises. She also believes in decreasing immigration to reduce housing demand. Litzcke鈥檚 professional background includes stints as a writer and a dietician and she holds a bachelor of home economics degree from UBC along with an MBA from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario.
The tenets at the top of Karin Litzcke鈥檚 website include: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fairness and respect Photo courtesy of Karin Litzcke campaign
Libertarian
G枚l枚k Buday
G枚l枚k Buday鈥檚 quest for public office is now well into its second decade. His last foray into the political sphere came in October 2018, when he finished 20th out of 21 mayoral candidates. Buday鈥檚 Linkedin profile suggests he鈥檚 a game developer, comedian, illustrator, graphic artist, director and writer. Buday鈥檚 platform includes the following: taking down the central banking system, zero taxes on working people, disbanding CSIS, the CBC and the CRTC, and repealing local rapid transit funding.
Golok Z Buday is running as an independent.
