Okanagan—Similkameen
Okanagan—Similkameen was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988.
- This article is for the electoral district. For the regional district by this name, see the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen.
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| Defunct federal electoral district | |
| Legislature | House of Commons |
| District created | 1976 |
| District abolished | 1987 |
| First contested | 1979 |
| Last contested | 1984 |
The riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary ridings.
It consisted of:
- the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen
- part of the Regional District of Central Okanagan lying west of the westerly boundaries of Electoral Area A and Electoral Area I
- part of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary lying west of the westerly boundary of Electoral Area B
- part of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lying east of the easterly boundary of Electoral Area I and south of the southerly boundaries of Electoral Area J and Electoral Area L.
Members of Parliament
| Parliament | Years | Member | Party | |
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| Riding created from Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary |
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| 31st | 1979–1980 | Frederick King | Progressive Conservative | |
| 32nd | 1980–1984 | |||
| 33rd | 1984–1988 | |||
| Riding dissolved into Okanagan Centre and Okanagan—Similkameen—Merritt |
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Election results
| 1984 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Fred King | 27,071 | 52.21 | +12.75 | ||||
| New Democratic | Peter J. Merry | 15,181 | 29.28 | -9.96 | ||||
| Liberal | Wilson Rutherford | 8,106 | 15.63 | -3.79 | ||||
| Confederation of Regions | Sam Davidson | 672 | 1.30 | – | ||||
| Green | Russ Domer | 417 | 0.80 | – | ||||
| Social Credit | Bob Hamersley | 402 | 0.78 | -0.44 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 51,849 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | +11.36 | ||||||
| 1980 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Fred King | 19,161 | 39.46 | -10.10 | ||||
| New Democratic | Darwin Sigurgeirson | 19,058 | 39.24 | +11.61 | ||||
| Liberal | Don Moses | 9,433 | 19.42 | -2.80 | ||||
| Social Credit | Bob Hamersley | 593 | 1.22 | – | ||||
| Rhinoceros | André Kruger | 317 | 0.65 | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 48,562 | 100.0 | ||||||
| Progressive Conservative hold | Swing | -10.86 | ||||||
| 1979 Canadian federal election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Progressive Conservative | Fred King | 21,008 | 49.56 | |||||
| New Democratic | Darwin Sigurgeirson | 11,715 | 27.63 | |||||
| Liberal | Don Moses | 9,421 | 22.22 | |||||
| No affiliation | Alexander V. Barker | 249 | 0.59 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 42,393 | 100.0 | ||||||
| This riding was created from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary, which elected two Progressive Conservatives and one Liberal (Kamloops—Cariboo) in the previous election. | ||||||||
See also
- List of Canadian federal electoral districts
- Past Canadian electoral districts
External links
- Website of the Parliament of Canada
- Riding history from the Library of Parliament
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