// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Ralph Sultan? Sultan of what?
Ralph Sultan | |
|---|---|
 Sultan in 2013 | |
| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for West Vancouver-Capilano | |
| In office May 16, 2001 – October 24, 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Jeremy Dalton |
| Succeeded by | Karin Kirkpatrick |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 6, 1933 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Party | BC Liberal |
| Alma mater | University of British Columbia Harvard University |
| Website | ralphsultan.ca |
Ralph Sultan (born June 6, 1933) is a Canadian politician, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the community of West Vancouver-Capilano in British Columbia from 2001 to 2020.
A member of the British Columbia Liberal Party, he was first elected in 2001 and re-elected in 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017.[1] In the election of 2017, he became the oldest person to be elected in the history of B.C. politics at age 83.
Sultan served as Minister of State for Seniors (2012–2013), Minister Responsible for Multiculturalism (2013), and Minister of Advanced Education, Innovation and Technology (2013). He was previously a member of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts.[2] He decided to retire rather than run in the 2020 British Columbia general election.[3]
Electoral record
[edit]| 2017 British Columbia general election: West Vancouver-Capilano | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ralph Sultan | 13,596 | 57.16 | −9.87 | $55,842 | |||
| New Democratic | Mehdi Russel | 5,622 | 23.63 | +1.25 | $23,564 | |||
| Green | Michael Markwick | 4,570 | 19.21 | – | $6,233 | |||
| Total valid votes | 23,788 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 169 | 0.71 | −0.11 | |||||
| Turnout | 23,957 | 62.56 | +2.09 | |||||
| Registered voters | 38,294 | |||||||
| Source: Elections BC[4][5] | ||||||||
| 2013 British Columbia general election: West Vancouver-Capilano | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ralph Sultan | 15,776 | 67.03 | -0.45 | $96,349 | |||
| New Democratic | Terry Platt | 5,267 | 22.38 | +7.86 | $15,266 | |||
| Conservative | David Jones | 1,156 | 4.91 | +1.78 | $10,078 | |||
| Independent | Michael Markwick | 1,018 | 4.32 | – | $8,750 | |||
| Libertarian | Tunya Audain | 320 | 1.36 | +0.56 | $250 | |||
| Total valid votes | 23,537 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 195 | 0.82 | ||||||
| Turnout | 23,732 | 60.47 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[6] | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ↑ "Official Biography: Ralph Sultan". Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Archived from the original on August 25, 2012. Retrieved December 10, 2010.
- ↑ Ralph Sultan Archived November 19, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, BC Legislative Assembly
- ↑ Richter, Brent (October 17, 2019). "West Vancouver's Sultan won't run again". North Shore News. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- ↑ "2017 Provincial General Election - Statement of Votes" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ↑ "FRPC". contributions.electionsbc.gov.bc.ca. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
- ↑ "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
External links
[edit]- Official Biography, Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Archived August 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  | This article about a BC United member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
 | This Metro Vancouver-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
- 1933 births
- BC United MLAs
- Canadian Lutherans
- Living people
- Members of the Executive Council of British Columbia
- Politicians from Vancouver
- University of British Columbia alumni
- Harvard Business School alumni
- 21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
- BC United, British Columbia MLA stubs
- Metro Vancouver stubs