Vancouver Centre was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It was created before the general election of 1933. It and the other new Vancouver ridings that came into existence that year – Vancouver-Burrard, Vancouver-Point Grey and Vancouver East – were created from the old Vancouver City riding, which was a six-member seat. Vancouver Centre was a two-member seat throughout its existence.

A redistribution before the 1991 election dramatically changed Vancouver's long-standing electoral map by the abandonment of the century-old tradition of multiple member districts. Vancouver Centre was abolished. The riding was redistributed into Vancouver-Burrard and Vancouver-Mount Pleasant with a small part going to Vancouver-Kingsway.

For a full listing of Vancouver ridings (historical and current), see Vancouver (electoral districts).

Demographics

Notable MLAs

• Alexander Small Matthew
• Leslie Raymond Peterson
• Herb Capozzi
• Evan Maurice Wolfe
• Mike Harcourt
• Gary Lauk
• Emery Barnes

Notable candidates

Electoral history 1933–1986

v t e 1941 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson	7,434	17.85	Y
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Wallis Walter LeFeaux	7,371	17.70	Y
	Liberal	Gordon Sylvester Wismer	6,865	16.48
	Liberal	Edward Allan Jamieson	6,858	16.46
	Conservative	Montague Gregory Caple	6,325	15.18
	Conservative	Albert DeBurgo McPhillips	6,198	14.88
	Socialist Labour	Eric Thomas Reaville	393	0.94
	Victory Without Debt	Mary Louise Bollert	209	0.50
Total valid votes			41,653	100.00
Total rejected ballots			445

v t e 1945 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Coalition	Allan James McDonell	10,976	26.01	Y
	Coalition	Gordon Sylvester Wismer	10,878	25.77	Y
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Laura Emma Marshall Jamieson	7,549	17.89
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Wallis Walter LeFeaux	7,451	17.65
	Labor–Progressive	Nigel Morgan	2,101	4.98
	Labor–Progressive	Maurice Rush	1,866	4.42
	Social Credit Alliance	Eric Charles Fitzgerald Martin	511	1.21
	Social Credit Alliance	Carl J. Julson	448	1.06
	Independent Liberal	William Raymond McKay	199	0.47
	Socialist Labour	Horace Warner	122	0.29
	Socialist	Raymond Harold MacLeod	105	0.25
Total valid votes			42,206	100.00
Total rejected ballots			154
Source: http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf

v t e 1949 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	Elected
	Coalition	Gordon Sylvester Wismer	14,595	30.25	Y
	Coalition	Allan James McDonell	14,576	30.22	Y
	Co-operative Commonwealth	James Campbell Bury	9,430	19.55
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Wallis Walter LeFeaux	8,539	17.70
	Social Credit League	John Chmelyk	465	0.96
	Social Credit League	Ernest Ruble	349	0.72
	Socialist Labour	John Alexander Fedoruk	286	0.59
Total valid votes			48,240	100.00
Total rejected ballots			996

For the elimination-ballot elections of 1952 and 1953 the riding's voters were presented with two ballots, one for each seat, with two separate candidate-races: