Okanagan Boundary

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This page is for the federal electoral district Okanagan Boundary. For the defunct provincial electoral district of the same name, see Okanagan-Boundary. For other Okanagan-area ridings, please see Okanagan (electoral districts).

Okanagan Boundary was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1953 to 1979.

This riding was created in 1952 from parts of Kamloops and Yale ridings.

It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed into Fraser Valley East, Kootenay West, Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen ridings.

[edit] Election results

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen Lewis Jones	8,086
	Social Credit	NEWMAN, Ivor James	7,543
	Liberal	RATHBUN, William Allen	5,053

Canadian federal election, 1957
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Social Credit	CHRISTIAN, Frank Claus	7,465
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen Lewis Jones	7,340
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	6,368
	Liberal	BUTLER, Melville Joseph	3,336

Canadian federal election, 1958
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	13,065
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen Lewis Jones	7,829
	Social Credit	CARSON, Henry	3,470
	Liberal	GILMOUR, William Andrew	2,637

Canadian federal election, 1962
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	9,069
	New Democrat	Owen Lewis Jones	7,956
	Social Credit	Frederick Davis Shaw	6,766
	Liberal	PHILPOTT, Elmore	5,141

Canadian federal election, 1963
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	10,031
	Social Credit	Frederick Davis Shaw	7,430
	Liberal	GILMOUR, William Andrew	6,453
	New Democrat	YOUNG, J.A.	6,425

Canadian federal election, 1965
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	9,499
	New Democrat	TURNER, D.A. Alex	7,522
	Social Credit	EMERY, Charles Edward	7,431
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	6,343

Canadian federal election, 1968
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	12,321
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	10,691
	New Democrat	TURNER, Alex	10,481
	Social Credit	SPARROW, Dave	4,217

Canadian federal election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	WHITTAKER, George H.	20,468
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	14,213
	New Democrat	MCIVER, Bryan	13,487

Canadian federal election, 1974
Party		Candidate	Votes
	Progressive Conservative	WHITTAKER, George H.	23,089
	Liberal	DYCK, John	19,421
	New Democrat	TUFFS, Arnet	8,975
	Social Credit	SHARP, Violet R.	2,002