Okanagan Boundary

Okanagan Boundary
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1952
District abolished	1976
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 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).

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.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
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	George Whittaker	Progressive Conservative
Riding dissolved into Fraser Valley East, Kootenay West, Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen

Election results

1974 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	George Whittaker	23,089	43.17	+0.68
	Liberal	John Dyck	19,421	36.31	+6.80
	New Democratic	Arnet Tuffs	8,975	16.78	-11.22
	Social Credit	Violet R. Sharp	2,002	3.74	–
Total valid votes			53,487	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-3.06

1972 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	George Whittaker	20,468	42.49	+14.14
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	14,213	29.51	-3.16
	New Democratic	Bryan McIver	13,487	28.00	+0.21
Total valid votes			48,168	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+8.65

1968 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	12,321	32.67	+12.07
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	10,691	28.35	-2.50
	New Democratic	Alex Turner	10,481	27.79	+3.36
	Social Credit	Dave Sparrow	4,217	11.18	-12.95
Total valid votes			37,710	100.0
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+7.28

1965 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	9,499	30.85	-2.21
	New Democratic	D.A. Alex Turner	7,522	24.43	+3.25
	Social Credit	Charles Edward Emery	7,431	24.13	-0.36
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	6,343	20.60	-0.67
Total valid votes			30,795	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-2.73

1963 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	10,031	33.06	+1.71
	Social Credit	Frederick Davis Shaw	7,430	24.49	+1.10
	Liberal	William Andrew Gilmour	6,453	21.27	+3.50
	New Democratic	J.A. Young	6,425	21.18	-6.32
Total valid votes			30,339	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+0.30

1962 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	9,069	31.35	-17.04
	New Democratic	Owen Lewis Jones	7,956	27.50	-1.50
	Social Credit	Frederick Davis Shaw	6,766	23.39	+10.54
	Liberal	Elmore Philpott	5,141	17.77	+8.00
Total valid votes			28,932	100.0
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		-7.78
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.

1958 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	13,065	48.39	+22.41
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen Lewis Jones	7,829	29.00	-0.95
	Social Credit	Henry Carson	3,470	12.85	-17.61
	Liberal	William Andrew Gilmour	2,637	9.77	-3.84
Total valid votes			27,001	100.0
	Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit		Swing		+11.68

1957 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Frank Christian	7,465	30.46	-6.01
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen Lewis Jones	7,340	29.95	-9.15
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	6,368	25.98	–
	Liberal	Melville Joseph Butler	3,336	13.61	-10.82
Total valid votes			24,509	100.0
	Social Credit gain from Co-operative Commonwealth		Swing		+1.57

1953 Canadian federal election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen Lewis Jones	8,086	39.10
	Social Credit	Ivor James Newman	7,543	36.47
	Liberal	William Allen Rathbun	5,053	24.43
Total valid votes			20,682	100.0
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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External links

Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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Okanagan Boundary

Members of Parliament

Election results

See also

External links