Okanagan Boundary

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.

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1953
Party Candidate Votes
     Co-operative Commonwealth Owen Lewis Jones 8,086
     Social Credit Ivor James Newman 7,543
     Liberal William Allen Rathbun 5,053
Canadian federal election, 1957
Party Candidate Votes
     Social Credit Frank Christian 7,465
     Co-operative Commonwealth Owen Lewis Jones 7,340
     Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 6,368
     Liberal Melville Joseph Butler 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 Henry Carson 3,470
     Liberal William Andrew Gilmour 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 Elmore Philpott 5,141
Canadian federal election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 10,031
     Social Credit Frederick Davis Shaw 7,430
     Liberal William Andrew Gilmour 6,453
     New Democrat J.A. Young 6,425
Canadian federal election, 1965
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 9,499
     New Democrat D.A. Alex Turner 7,522
     Social Credit Charles Edward Emery 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 Alex Turner 10,481
     Social Credit Dave Sparrow 4,217
Canadian federal election, 1972
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative George Whittaker 20,468
     Liberal Bruce Howard 14,213
     New Democrat Bryan McIver 13,487
Canadian federal election, 1974
Party Candidate Votes
     Progressive Conservative George Whittaker 23,089
     Liberal John Dyck 19,421
     New Democrat Arnet Tuffs 8,975
     Social Credit Violet R. Sharp 2,002

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