BC NDP leader has won his Vancouver-Kingsway riding, defeating BC Liberal Gurjit Dhillion 63 per cent to 23 percent.
Green candidate Gregory Esau had 13.5 per cent of the vote.
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In 2009, Dix won this riding for the second straight time, defeating Liberal Bill Yuen by nearly 3000 votes, 55 per cent to 39 per cent.
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Created before the 1991 election from the old Vancouver East riding, Vancouver-Kensington roughly comprises the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood.
Aside from the 2001 election, the area has voted for the NDP candidate in every election since 1956.
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