Okanagan—Similkameen—Merritt
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Okanagan—Similkameen—Merritt was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997.
This riding was created in 1987 from Okanagan—Similkameen, and eliminated in 1996 when it was divided between Okanagan—Coquihalla and West Kootenay—Okanagan.
The riding consisted of the west part of the Kootenay Boundary Regional District, the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District, Electoral Areas M and N of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, and the city of Merritt.
[edit] Election results
| Canadian federal election, 1988 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| New Democratic Party | WHITTAKER, Jack | 16,694 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | KING, Fred | 15,352 | |||
| Liberal | GRIMALDI, Joanne | 7,520 | |||
| Reform | AMOS, Ron | 2,492 | |||
| Green | HUGHES, John | 686 | |||
| Social Credit | ABBEY, Colin | 451 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1993 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Reform | HART, Jim | 21,172 | |||
| Liberal | REED, Mike | 11,888 | |||
| New Democratic Party | WHITTAKER, Jack | 7,174 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | IRVINE, Sue | 6,150 | |||
| National | NOBLE, Ken | 1,185 | |||
| Green | NAEGEL, Harry | 473 | |||
| Natural Law | BECK, Steven R. | 264 | |||
| Canada Party | SYKES, Leslie G. | 216 | |||
