Boundary-Similkameen

British Columbia electoral district

Provincial electoral district

Legislature

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

MLA

John Slater
BC Liberal

District created

1988

First contested

1988

Boundary-Similkameen is a new riding which was formed in 2008 assembled together with populations of Penticton-Okanagan Valley, West Kootenay-Boundary and Yale-Lillooet.^[1] The riding's name was resurrected from a former riding in the same area, with similar but not identical boundaries (see History section).

1 Member of Legislative Assembly
2 History
3 Demographics
4 Political geography
5 Notable elections
6 Notable MLAs
7 Electoral history
8 References

Member of Legislative Assembly

On account of the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term. Bill Barisoff, British Columbia Liberal Party was initially elected during the 2005 election and 2001 election to the Penticton-Okanagan Valley riding, where the bulk of the new riding's population resides. Katrine Conroy, NDP. was the MLA for West Kootenay-Boundary, while Harry Lali, NDP, was the MLA for Yale-Lillooet (the areas of those ridings added to Boundary-Similkameen are less-populated and were not main population centres in their ridings).

History

The original riding of Boundary-Similkameen was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It spanned the Boundary Country, around the towns of Grand Forks and Rock Creek west including Oliver and Osoyoos to the Similkameen valley towns of Keremeos and Princeton. The riding first appeared in the 1966 election as the result of a merger of the former ridings of Grand Forks-Greenwood (1924–1963) and Similkameen. Until the re-creation of Boundary Similkameen, the former area was part of West Kootenay-Boundary; areas in the Similkameen had been part of Yale-Lillooet (which has been reconstituted as Fraser-Nicola).

For other historical and current ridings in the region, see Kootenay (electoral districts) and Okanagan (electoral districts).

Demographics

Population, 1966
Population change, 1966–1986
Area (km²)
Population density (people per km²)

Political geography

Notable elections

Notable MLAs

Electoral history

Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Frank Richter, Jr.	6,547	55.44%		unknown
	New Democrat	Lois Haggen	3,669	31.07%		unknown
	Liberal	John Victor Hyde Wilson	1,594	13.50%		unknown
Total valid votes			11,810	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			87
Turnout			%

29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Frank Richter, Jr.	8,944	54.29%		unknown
	New Democrat	Bill Barlee	4,957	30.09%		unknown
	Liberal	Donald Grant MacDonald	2,575	15.63%		unknown
Total valid votes			16,476	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			122
Turnout			%

30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Frank Richter, Jr.	8,092	44.11%		unknown
	New Democrat	Bill Barlee	6,850	37.34%		unknown
	Liberal	Ruth Schiller	1,855	10.11		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Donald James Ewart	1,550	8.45%		unknown
Total valid votes			18,347	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			122
Turnout			%

31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jim Hewitt	10,784	48.31%		unknown
	New Democrat	Yvonne Joan Storey	9,183	41.13%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	Barry Donald Montgomery	1,778	7.96%		unknown
	Liberal	James Elder	580	2.60%		unknown
Total valid votes			22,325	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			161
Turnout			%

32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jim Hewitt	13,739	47.56%		unknown
	New Democrat	Bryan Patrick McIver	11,485	39.76%		unknown
	Progressive Conservative	John Edwin Swales	3,662	12.68%		unknown
Total valid votes			28,886	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			324
Turnout			%

33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jim Hewitt	18,869	54.82%		unknown
	New Democrat	Yvonne Joan Storey	14,468	42.03%		unknown
	Liberal	Kenneth Leslie Carig Hasanen	1,086	3.15%		unknown
Total valid votes			34,423	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			312
Turnout			%

34th British Columbia election, 1986 ^2>
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Social Credit	Jim Hewitt	18,204	29.99%		unknown
	Social Credit	Ivan Messmer	16,150	26.61%		unknown
	New Democrat	Eldon John Harrop	11,656	19.21%		unknown
	New Democrat	Wesley G. Nickel	11,427	18.83%		unknown
	Liberal	Anna Rita Lusier	1,729	2.85%		unknown
	Green	John Mercer Hughes	893	1.47%		unknown
	Green	David G. Cursons	634	1.04%		unknown
Total valid votes			60,693	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			758
Turnout			%
² Seat increased to two members from one.

Boundary-Similkameen Byelection, June 8, 1988 resignation of Jim Hewitt
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democrat	Bill Barlee	15,778	52.82%		unknown
	Social Credit	Russ Fox	10,515	35.44%		unknown
	Liberal	Judi Tyabji	3,144	10.53%		unknown
	Green	Rus Domer	361	1.21%		unknown
Total valid votes			29,868	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			218
Turnout			%
² Seat increased to two members from one.

The 1988 byelection, which elected NDP member Bill Barlee, was the last appearance of the Boundary-Similkameen riding until its recreation in 2009. For the 1991 election, the area became represented by Okanagan-Boundary.

B.C. General Election 2009 Boundary-Similkameen
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	BC Liberal	John Slater	6,681	37.45%		$99,832
	NDP	Lakhvinder Jhaj	5,870	32.91%		$52,629
	Conservative	Joe Cardoso	3,596	20.16%		$20,592
	Green	Bob Grieve	1,691	9.48%		$2,025
Total valid votes			17,838	100%
Total rejected ballots			122	0.68%
Turnout			17,960	62.31%

References

^ "CBC.ca - B.C. Votes - Boundary-Similkameen". CBC. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/bcvotes2009/ridings/005/. Retrieved 2009-04-11.

Elections BC Historical Returns

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2009–)

North / Central	Cariboo-Chilcotin • Cariboo North • Nechako Lakes • North Coast • Peace River North • Peace River South • Prince George-Mackenzie • Prince George-Valemount • Skeena • Stikine

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen • Columbia River-Revelstoke • Kamloops-North Thompson • Kamloops-South Thompson • Kelowna-Lake Country • Kelowna-Mission • Kootenay East • Kootenay West • Fraser-Nicola • Nelson-Creston • Penticton • Shuswap • Vernon-Monashee • Westside-Kelowna

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Mission • Abbotsford South • Abbotsford West • Chilliwack • Chilliwack-Hope • Delta North • Delta South • Fort Langley-Aldergrove • Langley • Maple Ridge-Mission • Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows • Richmond Centre • Richmond East • Richmond-Steveston • Surrey-Cloverdale • Surrey-Fleetwood • Surrey-Green Timbers • Surrey-Newton • Surrey-Panorama • Surrey-Tynehead • Surrey-Whalley • Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Deer Lake • Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby-Lougheed • Burnaby North • Coquitlam-Burke Mountain • Coquitlam-Maillardville • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Lonsdale • North Vancouver-Seymour • Port Coquitlam • Port Moody-Coquitlam • Vancouver-Fairview • Vancouver-False Creek • Vancouver-Fraserview • Vancouver-Hastings • Vancouver-Kensington • Vancouver-Kingsway • Vancouver-Langara • Vancouver-Mount Pleasant • Vancouver-Point Grey • Vancouver-Quilchena • Vancouver-West End • West Vancouver-Capilano • West Vancouver-Sea to Sky

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni-Pacific Rim • Comox Valley • Cowichan Valley • Esquimalt-Royal Roads • Juan de Fuca • Nanaimo • Nanaimo-North Cowichan • North Island • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Parksville-Qualicum • Powell River-Sunshine Coast • Saanich North and the Islands • Saanich South • Victoria-Beacon Hill • Victoria-Swan Lake

See also:	Electoral boundary redistribution of 2008 • List of British Columbia general elections • 2009 general election • Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)

North / Central	Atlin • Cariboo ‡ • North Peace River • Omineca • Prince George North • Prince George South • Prince Rupert • Skeena • South Peace River

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen ‡ • Columbia River • Kamloops ‡ • Kootenay • Nelson-Creston • Okanagan North • Okanagan South ‡ • Rossland-Trail • Shuswap-Revelstoke • Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Central Fraser Valley ‡ • Chilliwack • Delta ‡ • Dewdney ‡ • Langley ‡ • Richmond ‡ • Surrey (2) †

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Coquitlam-Moody • Maillardville-Coquitlam • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Capilano • North Vancouver-Seymour • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (2) • Vancouver South (2) • West Vancouver-Howe Sound

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni • Comox • Cowichan-Malahat • Esquimalt-Port Renfrew • Mackenzie • Nanaimo ‡ • North Island • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Saanich and the Islands ‡ • Victoria (2)

Notes	‡ - from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency † - from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies: Surrey-Guildford-Whalley • Surrey-Newton • Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections • 1979 general election • 1983 general election • 1986 general election • Defunct districts

British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1966–1979)

North / Central	Atlin • Cariboo • Fort George • North Peace River • Omineca • Prince Rupert • Skeena • South Peace River

Southern Interior	Boundary-Similkameen • Columbia River • Kamloops • Kootenay • Nelson-Creston • North Okanagan • Revelstoke-Slocan • Rossland-Trail • South Okanagan • Shuswap • Yale-Lillooet

Lower Mainland	Burnaby-Edmonds • Burnaby North • Burnaby-Willingdon • Chilliwack • Coquitlam • Delta • Dewdney • Langley • New Westminster • North Vancouver-Capilano • North Vancouver-Seymour • Richmond • Surrey • Vancouver-Burrard (2) • Vancouver Centre (2) • Vancouver East (2) • Vancouver-Little Mountain (2) • Vancouver-Point Grey (2) • Vancouver South (2) • West Vancouver-Howe Sound

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni • Comox • Cowichan-Malahat • Esquimalt • Mackenzie • Nanaimo • Oak Bay-Gordon Head • Saanich and the Islands • Victoria (2)

See also:	List of British Columbia general elections • 1966 general election • 1969 general election • 1972 general election • 1975 general election • Defunct districts