Okanagan—Similkameen
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Okanagan—Similkameen was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988.
The riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary ridings.
It consisted of:
- Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District
- part of the Central Okanagan Regional District lying west of the westerly boundaries of Electoral Area A and Electoral Area I
- part of Kootenay Boundary Regional District 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
[edit] Electoral history
| Canadian federal election, 1984 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Progressive Conservative | KING, Fred | 27,071 | ||||
| New Democratic Party | MERRY, Peter J. | 15,181 | ||||
| Liberal | RUTHERFORD, Wilson | 8,106 | ||||
| Confederation of Regions | DAVIDSON, Sam | 672 | ||||
| Green | DOMER, Russ | 417 | ||||
| Social Credit | HAMERSLEY, Bob | 402 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1980 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Progressive Conservative | KING, Fred | 19,161 | ||||
| New Democratic Party | SIGURGEIRSON, Darwin | 19,058 | ||||
| Liberal | MOSES, Don | 9,433 | ||||
| Social Credit | HAMERSLEY, Bob | 593 | ||||
| Rhino | KRUGER, André | 317 | ||||
| Canadian federal election, 1979 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Progressive Conservative | KING, Fred | 21,008 | ||||
| New Democratic Party | SIGURGEIRSON, Darwin | 11,715 | ||||
| Liberal | MOSES, Don | 9,421 | ||||
| No affiliation | BARKER, Alexander V. | 249 | ||||
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Website of the Parliament of Canada
- Riding history from the Library of Parliament
