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Burnaby—Richmond
British Columbia electoral district
	Boundaries at abolition
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1949
District abolished	1976
First contested	1949
Last contested	1978

Burnaby—Richmond (also known as Burnaby—Richmond—Delta) was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1949 to 1979.

This riding was created as "Burnaby—Richmond" in 1947 from parts of New Westminster and Vancouver North ridings.

The name of the electoral district was changed in 1970 to "Burnaby—Richmond—Delta".

It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed into Burnaby and Richmond—South Delta ridings.

Historical boundaries

Parliament	Years		Party
Burnaby—Richmond Riding created from New Westminster and Vancouver North
21st	1949–1953	Tom Goode	Liberal
22nd	1953–1957	Tom Goode	Liberal
23rd	1957–1958	Thomas Irwin	Social Credit
24th	1958–1962	John Drysdale	Progressive Conservative
25th	1962–1963	Bob Prittie	New Democratic
26th	1963–1965
27th	1965–1968
28th	1968–1972	Thomas Henry Goode	Liberal
Burnaby—Richmond—Delta
29th	1972–1974	John Reynolds	Progressive Conservative
30th	1974–1977	John Reynolds	Progressive Conservative
30th	1978–1979	Tom Siddon	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Burnaby and Richmond—South Delta

Canadian federal by-election, 16 October 1978 On the resignation of John Reynolds, 5 September 1977
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Tom Siddon	30,395	63.48	+8.67
	New Democratic	Mercia Stickney	11,308	23.62	+7.34
	Liberal	Tony Schmand	4,713	9.84	-18.47
	Independent	Ernie Lecours	1,128	2.36	–
	Communist	Homer Stevens	339	0.71	+0.23
Total valid votes			47,883	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+0.66

1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Reynolds	34,013	54.81	+19.14
	Liberal	Joan Wallace	17,570	28.31	-1.31
	New Democratic	J.-P. Daem	10,106	16.28	-16.80
	Communist	Homer J. Stevens	299	0.48	–
	Marxist–Leninist	Steve Ruthchinski	70	0.11	–
Total valid votes			62,058	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+10.22

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Reynolds	19,798	35.67	+22.47
	New Democratic	Ken Novakowski	18,358	33.08	-4.87
	Liberal	Thomas Henry Goode	16,441	29.62	-12.82
	Social Credit	Gayle Dewhirst	906	1.63	-4.78
Total valid votes			55,503	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+13.67

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas Henry Goode	16,182	42.44	+10.88
	New Democratic	Bob Prittie	14,470	37.95	-6.75
	Progressive Conservative	Matt Phillips	5,035	13.20	+5.28
	Social Credit	Jack Lubzinski	2,445	6.41	-9.42
Total valid votes			38,132	100.0
	Liberal gain from New Democratic		Swing		+8.82

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Bob Prittie	15,620	38.55	+9.05
	Liberal	William J. Trainor	11,509	28.41	+12.91
	Progressive Conservative	John Drysdale	8,683	21.43	-24.22
	Social Credit	Hilliard Beyerstein	4,705	11.61	+2.26
Total valid votes			40,517	100.0
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		-1.93
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	John Drysdale	15,570	45.65	+19.81
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Bob Prittie	10,063	29.50	+4.56
	Liberal	Tom Goode	5,286	15.50	-7.68
	Social Credit	Thomas Irwin	3,190	9.35	-16.69
Total valid votes			34,109	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit		Swing		+7.62

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Thomas Irwin	7,999	26.04	-4.82
	Progressive Conservative	John Drysdale	7,940	25.84	–
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Bob Prittie	7,662	24.94	-6.14
	Liberal	Tom Goode	7,121	23.18	-11.02
Total valid votes			30,722	100.0
	Social Credit gain from Liberal		Swing		-15.33

1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Tom Goode	12,848	38.87
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Dorothy Gretchen Steeves	12,553	37.97
	Progressive Conservative	John Ferguson	6,097	18.44
	Labor–Progressive	Tom McEwen	1,558	4.71
Total valid votes			33,056	100.0
This riding was created from parts of New Westminster and Vancouver North, which both elected Liberals in the previous election.