Okanagan Centre

Okanagan Centre
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	1996
First contested	1988
Last contested	1993

Okanagan Centre was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997. This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen, and eliminated in 1996 when it was merged into Kelowna.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen
34th	1988–1993	Al Horning	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Werner Schmidt	Reform
Riding dissolved into Kelowna

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Werner Schmidt	30,703	46.62	+32.09
	Liberal	Murli Pendharkar	15,688	23.82	+6.76
	Progressive Conservative	Al Horning	12,629	19.18	–18.08
	New Democratic	Bryan McIver	4,562	6.93	–23.28
	National	Jack Davis	1,082	1.64	–
	Green	David Hughes	666	1.01	+0.06
	Natural Law	Douglas Walker	211	0.32	–
	Canada Party	Faye Stroo	179	0.27	–
	Independent	Trevor L. Adams	134	0.20	–
Total valid votes			65,854	99.61
Total rejected ballots			257	0.39	+0.04
Turnout			66,111	70.63	–7.93
Eligible voters			93,596
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+12.67
Source: Elections Canada^[1]^[2]^[3]

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Progressive Conservative	Al Horning	19,485	37.25	–
	New Democratic	Bryan McIver	15,800	30.21	–
	Liberal	Murli Pendharkar	8,922	17.06	–
	Reform	Werner Schmidt	7,599	14.53	–
	Green	David Hughes	496	0.95	–
Total valid votes			52,302	99.66
Total rejected ballots			181	0.34	–
Turnout			52,483	78.56	–
Eligible voters			66,806
	Progressive Conservative notional hold		Swing		–
This riding was created from parts of Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen, both of which elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election.
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]^[6]

List of federal ridings in British Columbia
British Columbia Interior	Cariboo—Prince George Columbia—Kootenay—Southern Rockies Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola Kelowna Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies Similkameen—South Okanagan—West Kootenay Skeena—Bulkley Valley Vernon—Lake Country—Monashee
Fraser Valley and the Southern Lower Mainland	Abbotsford—South Langley Chilliwack—Hope Cloverdale—Langley City Delta Fleetwood—Port Kells Langley Township—Fraser Heights Mission—Matsqui—Abbotsford Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge Richmond Centre—Marpole Richmond East—Steveston South Surrey—White Rock Surrey Centre Surrey Newton
Vancouver and the Northern Lower Mainland	Burnaby Central Burnaby North—Seymour Coquitlam—Port Coquitlam New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville North Vancouver—Capilano Port Moody—Coquitlam Vancouver Centre Vancouver East Vancouver Granville Vancouver Kingsway Vancouver Quadra Vancouver Fraserview—South Burnaby West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country
Vancouver Island	Courtenay—Alberni Cowichan—Malahat—Langford Esquimalt—Saanich—Sooke Nanaimo—Ladysmith North Island—Powell River Saanich—Gulf Islands Victoria