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

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