Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was one of only two electoral districts to return an NDP MLA in the 2001 election when the NDP was nearly wiped off the electoral map, and it did so by a much wider margin than Vancouver-Hastings, the other seat to return a New Democrat.

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Vancouver-Mount Pleasant

British Columbia electoral district
Location in Vancouver
Provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
MLA	Joan Phillip New Democratic
First contested	1991
Last contested	2023
Demographics
Population (2001)	53,986
Area (km²)	9.64
Pop. density (per km²)	5,600.2
Census division(s)	Metro Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)	Vancouver

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The NDP routinely wins by over 40 points in this riding. Even during the 2001 landslide victory for the BC Liberals, the NDP won this riding by over 10 points, despite a massive province-wide turn away from the party. Vancouver-Mount Pleasant is therefore considered one of the safest NDP seats in all of British Columbia.

This riding is located in the east end of Vancouver, running from the eastern parts of the Downtown eastward to Commercial Drive (the western parts of the downtown make up the neighbouring riding of Vancouver-False Creek). The riding consists of the part of its namesake neighbourhood of Mount Pleasant east of Main Street, all of Strathcona, Downtown Eastside and Gastown, as well as part of Chinatown, the part of Grandview-Woodland west of Commercial Drive and the part of Kensington-Cedar Cottage north of Kingsway.

Its MLA is Joan Phillip, who was elected in a 2023 by-election to replace Melanie Mark; Mark resigned her seat in April 2023.^[1]