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

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.

LegislatureHouse of Commons

District created1988

District abolished2004

First contested1988

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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

2000 Canadian federal election: Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	Alliance	Betty Hinton	23,578	48.59	+19.70	$52,370
	New Democratic	Nelson Riis	13,600	28.03	–8.04	$52,389
	Liberal	Jon Moser	7,582	15.63	–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			48,521	99.76
Total rejected ballots			117	0.24
Turnout			48,638	67.38
Eligible voters			72,188
	Alliance gain from New Democratic		Swing		+13.87
Change for the Canadian Alliance is based on the Reform Party.
Source: Elections Canada^[1]^[2]

1997 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Nelson Riis	16,138	36.07	–0.22	$52,988
	Liberal	Joel Groves	14,244	31.83	+7.49	$58,887
	Reform	Fred Bosman	12,928	28.89	+2.13	$45,611
	Progressive Conservative	Donald Niel Cameron	999	2.23	–6.48	$13,522
	Green	Donald Stuart Rennie	437	0.98	–	none listed
Total valid votes			44,746	99.72
Total rejected ballots			126	0.28	–0.10
Turnout			44,872	67.32	–1.77
Eligible voters			66,657
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–3.86
Source: Elections Canada^[3]^[4]

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Nelson Riis	16,063	36.28	–16.01
	Reform	Keith Raddatz	11,847	26.76	+25.60
	Liberal	Kevin Krueger	10,776	24.34	+11.19
	Progressive Conservative	Frank Coldicott	3,857	8.71	–23.69
	National	Kathrine Wunderlich	1,399	3.16	–
	Natural Law	Mark McCooey	133	0.30	–
	Libertarian	Randall Edge	109	0.25	–
	Canada Party	Marion Munday	45	0.10	–
	Independent	Thomas Brown	41	0.09	–
Total valid votes			44,270	99.62
Total rejected ballots			169	0.38	–0.03
Turnout			44,439	69.09	–9.65
Eligible voters			64,324
	New Democratic hold		Swing		–20.81
Source: Elections Canada^[5]^[6]^[7]

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	99.59
Total rejected ballots			170	0.41
Turnout			41,307	78.74
Eligible voters			52,463
	New Democratic notional hold		Swing		–
This riding was created from parts of Kamloops—Shuswap, with New Democrat Nelson Riis being the incumbent.
Source: Elections Canada^[8]^[9]^[10]

Kamloops (federal electoral district)

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Kamloops, 1987–1998

Kamloops, 1933–1966

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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	–0.12
Total valid votes			31,376	99.42
Total rejected ballots			183	0.58	–0.15
Turnout			31,559	74.71	–2.77
Eligible voters			42,240
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+4.34
Source: Library of Parliament^[11]^[12]

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 Aubrey Wright	5,394	18.46	+1.71
Total valid votes			29,217	99.27
Total rejected ballots			216	0.73	–0.08
Turnout			29,433	77.48	+4.69
Eligible voters			37,988
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–10.11
Source: Library of Parliament^[13]^[14]

v t e 1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	11,312	43.13	–20.17
	Liberal	Jarl Whist	5,789	22.07	+8.97
	New Democratic	Walter D. Inglis	4,733	18.05	+5.36
	Social Credit	Clarence Aubrey Wright	4,393	16.75	+5.83
Total valid votes			26,227	99.18
Total rejected ballots			216	0.82	+0.17
Turnout			26,443	72.79	+2.16
Eligible voters			36,329
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–14.57
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.
Source: Library of Parliament^[15]^[16]

v t e 1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Davie Fulton	13,858	63.30	+16.06
	Liberal	Arnold McIntyre Affleck	2,868	13.10	–2.84
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Austin Kenneth Greenway	2,777	12.68	+3.46
	Social Credit	Earl Victor Roy Merrick	2,390	10.92	–16.68
Total valid votes			21,893	99.35
Total rejected ballots			143	0.65	–0.06
Turnout			22,036	70.62	–2.54
Eligible voters			31,202
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+9.76
Source: Library of Parliament^[17]^[18]