Okanagan (provincial electoral district)

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This page is for the defunct British Columbia provincial electoral district named Okanagan. For towns in and other information on the Okanagan region, please see Okanagan. For other electoral districts in the Okanagan, see Okanagan (electoral districts).

Okanagan was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1903 and lasting only until the election of 1912, after which it was succeeded by North Okanagan and South Okanagan. The riding was originally part of the Yale riding until 1890. When that riding was first broken up the Okanagan was in Yale-East (1894-1900).

Contents 1 Notable MLAs 2 Political geography 3 Election results 4 Sources

[edit] Notable MLAs

[edit] Political geography

[edit] Election results

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

10th British Columbia election, 1903
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Price Ellison	725	56.77%		unknown
	Liberal	Thomas Willing Stirling	552	43.23%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,277	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

11th British Columbia election, 1907
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Price Ellison	893	54.85%		unknown
	Socialist	John William Stalker Logie	92	5.65%		unknown
	Liberal	Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald	643	39.50%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,628	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

12th British Columbia election, 1909
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Liberal	Francis Richard Edwin DeHart	741	30.04%		unknown
	Conservative	Price Ellison	1,538	62.34%		unknown
	Socialist	James Foulds Johnson	188	7.62%		unknown
Total valid votes			2,467	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

13th British Columbia election, 1912
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Conservative	Price Ellison	1,388	82.37%		unknown
	Socialist	George Faulds Sterling	297	17.63%		unknown
Total valid votes			1,685	100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout			%

Redistribution of the riding following the 1912 election and two new ridings, North Okanagan and South Okanagan first appeared in the election of 1916.

[edit] Sources

Elections BC website - historical election data