Okanagan Boundary

This article is about the federal electoral district. For the defunct provincial electoral district, see Okanagan-Boundary. For other Okanagan-area ridings, see Okanagan (electoral districts).

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 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	Member		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
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	+0.67
	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	99.67
Total rejected ballots			178	0.33	–0.52
Turnout			53,665	71.67	–2.70
Eligible voters			74,876
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–3.06
Source: Library of Parliament

1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	George Whittaker	20,468	42.49	+14.14
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	14,213	29.51	–3.17
	New Democratic	Bryan McIver	13,487	28.00	+0.21
Total valid votes			48,168	99.14
Total rejected ballots			416	0.86	+0.16
Turnout			48,584	74.38	–5.47
Eligible voters			65,322
	Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal		Swing		+8.66
Source: Library of Parliament

1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce Howard	12,321	32.67	+12.08
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	10,691	28.35	–2.50
	New Democratic	D.A. Alex Turner	10,481	27.79	+3.37
	Social Credit	Dave Sparrow	4,217	11.18	–12.95
Total valid votes			37,710	99.31
Total rejected ballots			263	0.69	+0.12
Turnout			37,973	79.85	+1.97
Eligible voters			47,555
	Liberal gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+7.28
Source: Library of Parliament

1965 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	9,499	30.85	–2.22
	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	99.43
Total rejected ballots			176	0.57	+0.06
Turnout			30,971	77.88	–4.52
Eligible voters			39,767
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–2.73
Source: Library of Parliament

1963 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	10,031	33.06	+1.72
	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	99.49
Total rejected ballots			156	0.51	–0.12
Turnout			30,495	82.40	+1.37
Eligible voters			37,010
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		+0.30
Source: Library of Parliament

1962 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	9,069	31.35	–17.04
	New Democratic	Owen Jones	7,956	27.50	–1.50
	Social Credit	Frederick Davis Shaw	6,766	23.39	+10.53
	Liberal	Elmore Philpott	5,141	17.77	+8.00
Total valid votes			28,932	99.37
Total rejected ballots			183	0.63	+0.21
Turnout			29,115	81.03	–0.46
Eligible voters			35,932
	Progressive Conservative hold		Swing		–7.78
Source: Library of Parliament

1958 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	David Vaughan Pugh	13,065	48.39	+22.40
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen 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	–3.85
Total valid votes			27,001	99.58
Total rejected ballots			114	0.42	–0.04
Turnout			27,115	81.49	+4.70
Eligible voters			33,275
	Progressive Conservative gain from Social Credit		Swing		+11.68
Source: Library of Parliament

1957 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Frank Christian	7,465	30.46	–6.01
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen 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	99.54
Total rejected ballots			113	0.46	–0.39
Turnout			24,622	76.79	+6.23
Eligible voters			32,064
	Social Credit gain from Co-operative Commonwealth		Swing		+1.57
Source: Library of Parliament

1953 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Co-operative Commonwealth	Owen 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	99.15
Total rejected ballots			178	0.85
Turnout			20,860	70.56
Eligible voters			29,562
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.
Source: Library of Parliament

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada

External links

• Riding history for Okanagan Boundary (1953–1979) from the Library of Parliament