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

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

[edit] External links

• Website of the Parliament of Canada
• Riding history from the Library of Parliament