Okanagan Boundary

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Okanagan Boundary
Flag of British Columbia.svg British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature House of Commons
District created1952
District abolished1976
First contested 1953
Last contested 1974

Okanagan Boundary was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1953 to 1979. This riding was created in 1952 from parts of Kamloops and Yale ridings.

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It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed into Fraser Valley East, Kootenay West, Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen ridings.

Members of Parliament

ParliamentYearsMemberParty
Riding created from Kamloops and Yale
22nd  1953–1957   Owen Jones Co-operative Commonwealth
23rd  1957–1958   Frank Christian Social Credit
24th  1958–1962   David Vaughan Pugh Progressive Conservative
25th  1962–1963
26th  1963–1965
27th  1965–1968
28th  1968–1972   Bruce Howard Liberal
29th  1972–1974   George Whittaker Progressive Conservative
30th  1974–1979
Riding dissolved into Fraser Valley East, Kootenay West,
Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen

Election results

1974 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative George Whittaker 23,08943.17+0.68
Liberal John Dyck19,42136.31+6.80
New Democratic Arnet Tuffs8,97516.78-11.22
Social Credit Violet R. Sharp2,0023.74
Total valid votes53,487100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -3.06
1972 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative George Whittaker 20,46842.49+14.14
Liberal Bruce Howard 14,21329.51-3.16
New Democratic Bryan McIver13,48728.00+0.21
Total valid votes48,168100.0  
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +8.65
1968 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Liberal Bruce Howard 12,32132.67+12.07
Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 10,69128.35-2.50
New Democratic Alex Turner10,48127.79+3.36
Social Credit Dave Sparrow4,21711.18-12.95
Total valid votes37,710100.0  
Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +7.28
1965 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 9,49930.85-2.21
New Democratic D.A. Alex Turner7,52224.43+3.25
Social Credit Charles Edward Emery7,43124.13-0.36
Liberal Bruce Howard 6,34320.60-0.67
Total valid votes30,795100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -2.73
1963 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 10,03133.06+1.71
Social Credit Frederick Davis Shaw 7,43024.49+1.10
Liberal William Andrew Gilmour6,45321.27+3.50
New Democratic J.A. Young6,42521.18-6.32
Total valid votes30,339100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +0.30
1962 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 9,06931.35-17.04
New Democratic Owen Lewis Jones 7,95627.50-1.50
Social Credit Frederick Davis Shaw 6,76623.39+10.54
Liberal Elmore Philpott 5,14117.77+8.00
Total valid votes28,932100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -7.78
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.
1958 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 13,06548.39+22.41
Co-operative Commonwealth Owen Lewis Jones 7,82929.00-0.95
Social Credit Henry Carson3,47012.85-17.61
Liberal William Andrew Gilmour2,6379.77-3.84
Total valid votes27,001100.0  
Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit Swing +11.68
1957 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Social Credit Frank Christian 7,46530.46-6.01
Co-operative Commonwealth Owen Lewis Jones 7,34029.95-9.15
Progressive Conservative David Vaughan Pugh 6,36825.98
Liberal Melville Joseph Butler3,33613.61-10.82
Total valid votes24,509100.0  
Social Credit gain from Co-operative Commonwealth Swing +1.57
1953 Canadian federal election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Co-operative Commonwealth Owen Lewis Jones 8,08639.10
Social Credit Ivor James Newman7,54336.47
Liberal William Allen Rathbun5,05324.43
Total valid votes20,682100.0  
This riding was created from parts of Kamloops and Yale, which elected a Progressive Conservative and a Co-operative Commonwealth candidate, respectively, in the previous election. Owen Jones was the incumbent from Yale.

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