Kamloops—Shuswap
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Kamloops — Shuswap was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988.
This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops — Cariboo and Okanagan — Kootenay ridings.
It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Kamloops and Okanagan — Shuswap ridings.
It consisted of:
- the part of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lying east of Electoral Areas E and I and north of Electoral Area M; and
- the part of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District lying west of Electoral Area B.
[edit] Election results
| Canadian federal election, 1979 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| Progressive Conservative | CAMERON, Don | 19,369 | |||
| Liberal | MARCHAND, Len | 12,720 | |||
| New Democrat | ANDERSON, Ron H. | 12,193 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1980 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| New Democrat | RIIS, Nelson A. | 17,896 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | CAMERON, Don | 16,046 | |||
| Liberal | BRYSON, Mack | 1,588 | |||
| Rhino | STOREY, Kyle | 237 | |||
| Canadian federal election, 1984 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | |||
| New Democrat | RIIS, Nelson A. | 30,512 | |||
| Progressive Conservative | LATTA, Robert Michael | 20,500 | |||
| Liberal | WALLACE, Patricia Anne | 4,675 | |||
| Rhino | PURYCH, A. Dean | 353 | |||
| Green | HARRIS, Connie | 216 | |||
| Confederation of Regions | HOUGHTON, E. Neville | 102 | |||
| Independent | MIKULIN, Leon | 65 | |||
