Langford-Highlands
provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada
Langford-Highlands is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. Created under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution, the riding was first contested in the 2024 British Columbia general election. It was mostly created out of Langford-Juan de Fuca plus a small part of Esquimalt-Metchosin.
Geography
The district is located in Greater Victoria's Western Communities and is coterminal with the municipal boundaries of the city of Langford and the District of Highlands.
The public source identifies “Langford-Highlands” as provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Langford-Highlands, provincial and electoral.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q127433230. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2024.
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