Kamloops—Cariboo

Kamloops—Cariboo
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	1976
First contested	1968
Last contested	1974

Kamloops—Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979.

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Cariboo and Kamloops ridings.

It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed into Cariboo—Chilcotin, Kamloops—Shuswap, Okanagan North, Okanagan—Similkameen and Prince George–Bulkley Valley ridings.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Cariboo and Kamloops
28th	1968–1972	Leonard Marchand	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Riding dissolved into Cariboo—Chilcotin, Kamloops—Shuswap, Okanagan North, Okanagan—Similkameen and Prince George—Bulkley Valley

1968 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Leonard Stephen Marchand	13,000	40.48
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund Davie Fulton	9,704	30.22
	New Democratic	Vernor Wilfred Jones	7,566	23.56
	Social Credit	Peter Robert Gook	1,842	5.74
Total valid votes			32,112	100.0
This riding was created from Cariboo and Kamloops, which elected a Social Credit and a Progressive Conservative, respectively, in the last election. Davie Fulton was the incumbent from Kamloops.

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