Okanagan—Similkameen

Okanagan—Similkameen
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1976
District abolished	1987
First contested	1979
Last contested	1984

Okanagan—Similkameen was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988. The riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary ridings.

District created1976

District abolished1987

First contested1979

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It consisted of:

the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen
part of the Regional District of Central Okanagan lying west of the westerly boundaries of Electoral Area A and Electoral Area I
part of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary lying west of the westerly boundary of Electoral Area B
part of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lying east of the easterly boundary of Electoral Area I and south of the southerly boundaries of Electoral Area J and Electoral Area L.

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary
31st	1979–1980	Frederick King	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984
33rd	1984–1988
Riding dissolved into Okanagan Centre and Okanagan—Similkameen—Merritt

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Fred King	27,071	52.21	+12.75
	New Democratic	Peter J. Merry	15,181	29.28	-9.96
	Liberal	Wilson Rutherford	8,106	15.63	-3.79
	Confederation of Regions	Sam Davidson	672	1.30	–
	Green	Russ Domer	417	0.80	–
	Social Credit	Bob Hamersley	402	0.78	-0.44
Total valid votes			51,849	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+11.36

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Fred King	19,161	39.46	-10.10
	New Democratic	Darwin Sigurgeirson	19,058	39.24	+11.61
	Liberal	Don Moses	9,433	19.42	-2.80
	Social Credit	Bob Hamersley	593	1.22	–
	Rhinoceros	André Kruger	317	0.65	–
Total valid votes			48,562	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-10.86

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Fred King	21,008	49.56
	New Democratic	Darwin Sigurgeirson	11,715	27.63
	Liberal	Don Moses	9,421	22.22
	No affiliation	Alexander V. Barker	249	0.59
Total valid votes			42,393	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary, which elected two Progressive Conservatives and one Liberal (Kamloops—Cariboo) in the previous election.

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