Kamloops (federal electoral district)

Kamloops
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1988
District abolished	2004
First contested	1988
Last contested	2000

Last updated February 09, 2025

Kamloops was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1968, and from 1988 to 2004. From 1998 to 2004, it was known as Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys.

History

This riding was created in 1935 from parts of Cariboo and Kootenay West ridings. It was abolished in 1966 when it was redistributed into Coast Chilcotin, Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo, Okanagan—Kootenay and Prince George—Peace River ridings.

In 1987, a new Kamloops riding was created from parts of Kamloops—Shuswap riding. In 1998, it was renamed "Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys".

It consisted of:

Electoral Areas A, B, J, L, O and P of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District;
The City of Kamloops;
the Village of Chase; and
the District Municipality of Logan Lake.

It was redefined in 1996 to consist of:

Subdivisions A, B and E of Thompson-Nicola Regional District, including Skeetchestn Indian Reserve and Logan Lake District Municipality, excepting Spatsum Indian Reserve No. 11;
the City of Kamloops; and
Kamloops Indian Reserve No. 1.

In 2003, the riding was abolished, and a new riding, "Kamloops—Thompson", was created with substantially the same boundaries. In 2005, this district was renamed "Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo".

Members of Parliament

This riding elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament	Years		Party
Kamloops Riding created from Cariboo and Kootenay West
18th	1935–1940	Thomas O'Neill	Liberal
19th	1940–1945	Thomas O'Neill	Liberal
20th	1945–1949	Davie Fulton	Progressive Conservative
21st	1949–1953
22nd	1953–1957
23rd	1957–1958
24th	1958–1962
25th	1962–1963
26th	1963–1965	Charles Willoughby	Progressive Conservative
27th	1965–1968	Davie Fulton	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Coast Chilcotin, Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo, Okanagan—Kootenay and Prince George—Peace River
Riding re-created from Kamloops—Shuswap
34th	1988–1993	Nelson Riis	New Democratic
35th	1993–1997
36th	1997–2000
Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys
37th	2000–2004	Betty Hinton	Alliance
Riding dissolved into Kamloops—Thompson

Election results

Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys, 1998–2003

2000 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Betty Hinton	23,577	48.59	+19.70	$52,370
	New Democratic	Nelson Riis	13,600	28.02	-8.04	$52,389
	Liberal	Jon Moser	7,582	15.62	-16.21	$58,449
	Progressive Conservative	Randy Patch	3,217	6.63	+4.40	$18,401
	Canadian Action	Ernie Schmidt	544	1.12	–	$2,180
Total valid votes			48,520	100.0
Total rejected ballots			117	0.24
Turnout			48,637	67.38
	Alliance gain from New Democratic		Swing		+13.87
Change for the Canadian Alliance is based on the Reform Party.

Kamloops, 1987–1998

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Nelson Riis	16,138	36.06	-0.56	$52,988
	Liberal	Joel Groves	14,244	31.83	+7.61	$58,887
	Reform	Fred Bosman	12,928	28.89	+2.46	$45,611
	Progressive Conservative	Don Cameron	999	2.23	-6.27	$13,522
	Green	Donald Stuart Rennie	437	0.97	–
Total valid votes			44,746	100.0
Total rejected ballots			126	0.28
Turnout			44,872	67.32
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-4.08

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Nelson Riis	15,182	36.62	-15.68
	Reform	Keith Raddatz	10,957	26.43	+25.27
	Liberal	Kevin Krueger	10,040	24.22	+11.06
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Coldicott	3,526	8.50	-23.90
	National	Kathrine Wunderlich	1,398	3.37	–
	Libertarian	Randall Edge	152	0.37	–
	Natural Law	Mark McCooey	122	0.29	–
	Canada Party	Marion Munday	43	0.10	–
	Independent	Thomas Brown	40	0.10	–
Total valid votes			41,460	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		-20.48

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	New Democratic	Nelson Riis	21,513	52.30
	Progressive Conservative	Russ Cundari	13,328	32.40
	Liberal	Gus Halliday	5,412	13.16
	Reform	Ted Maskell	477	1.16
	Green	Trudy M. Frisk	263	0.64
	Communist	Valerie Adrienne Carey	77	0.19
	Independent	Carl A. Grant	67	0.16
Total valid votes			41,137	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Kamloops—Shuswap, with New Democrat Nelson Riis being the incumbent.

Kamloops, 1933–1966

v t e 1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	11,731	37.39	+7.94
	New Democratic	Vernor Wilfred Jones	7,132	22.73	-0.75
	Liberal	Albert John Edward Chilton	6,757	21.54	-7.07
	Social Credit	Thomas Daly Sills	5,756	18.35	-0.11
Total valid votes			31,376	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+4.34

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Charles Willoughby	8,604	29.45	-13.68
	Liberal	Jarl Whist	8,359	28.61	+6.54
	New Democratic	Vernor W. Jones	6,860	23.48	+5.43
	Social Credit	Clarence A. Wright	5,394	18.46	+1.71
Total valid votes			29,217	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-10.11

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	11,312	43.13	-20.70
	Liberal	Jarl Whist	5,789	22.07	+8.86
	New Democratic	Walter D. Inglis	4,733	18.05	+5.26
	Social Credit	Clarence Aubrey Wright	4,393	16.75	+5.74
Total valid votes			26,227	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-14.78
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	13,858	63.83	+16.59
	Liberal	Arnold McIntyre Affleck	2,868	13.21	-2.73
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Austin Kenneth Greenway	2,777	12.79	+3.56
	Social Credit	Earl Victor Roy Merrick	2,390	11.01	-16.58
Total valid votes			21,893	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+9.66

v t e 1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	10,029	47.24	+0.55
	Social Credit	Walter James Smith	5,858	27.59	+4.30
	Liberal	Arnold McIntyre Affleck	3,383	15.94	-0.89
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Austin Kenneth Greenway	1,959	9.23	-3.96
Total valid votes			21,229	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-1.88

v t e 1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	7,578	46.69	+5.92
	Social Credit	Clarence Aubrey Wright	3,780	23.29	–
	Liberal	Kenneth Durward Houghton	2,731	16.83	-16.55
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Austin Kenneth Greenway	2,140	13.19	-13.36
Total valid votes			16,229	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-8.68

v t e 1949 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	7,682	40.07	+6.98
	Liberal	Thomas James O'Neill	6,399	33.38	+1.58
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Victor Larson	5,091	26.55	-3.55
Total valid votes			19,172	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+2.70

v t e 1945 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	4,401	33.09	+1.19
	Liberal	Thomas James O'Neill	4,229	31.80	-9.99
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Francis James McKenzie	4,003	30.10	+3.79
	Labor–Progressive	John Henry Codd	666	5.01	–
Total valid votes			13,299	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+5.59

1940 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Thomas James O'Neill	5,621	41.79	+4.27
	National Government	Henry Herbert Stevens	4,290	31.90	+5.27
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Margaret MacNab	3,538	26.31	+0.16
Total valid votes			13,449	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-0.50

1935 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Thomas James O'Neill	4,190	37.52
	Conservative	William James Moffatt	2,974	26.63
	Co-operative Commonwealth	George Faulds Stirling	2,920	26.15
	Reconstruction	George Henry Ellis	1,084	9.71
Total valid votes			11,168	100.0
This riding was created from Cariboo and Kootenay West, both of which elected a Conservative in the last election.

References

External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament:

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