Okanagan Boundary

Former federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada

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

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Parliament | Years | Member | Party

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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

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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.

## See also

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

## References

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## External links

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* Riding history from the Library of Parliament

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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

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Historical federal ridings in British Columbia

Until 2025|

* Burnaby South
* Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola
* Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo
* Kelowna—Lake Country
* North Okanagan—Shuswap
* Vancouver South

Until 2015|

* British Columbia Southern Interior
* Burnaby—Douglas
* Burnaby—New Westminster
* Delta—Richmond East
* Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca
* Langley
* Nanaimo—Alberni
* Nanaimo—Cowichan
* New Westminster—Coquitlam
* Newton—North Delta
* Okanagan—Coquihalla
* Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission
* Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam
* South Surrey—White Rock—Cloverdale
* Surrey North
* Vancouver Island North

Until 2004|

* Cariboo—Chilcotin
* Delta—South Richmond
* Fraser Valley
* Kamloops / Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys
* Langley—Abbotsford
* New Westminster—Coquitlam—Burnaby
* Prince George—Bulkley Valley
* Skeena
* South Surrey—White Rock—Langley
* Surrey Central
* Vancouver South—Burnaby

Until 1997|

* Burnaby—Kingsway
* Capilano—Howe Sound
* Comox—Alberni
* Fraser Valley East
* Fraser Valley West
* Kootenay West—Revelstoke
* Mission—Coquitlam
* Okanagan Centre
* Okanagan—Similkameen—Merritt
* Surrey—White Rock—South Langley

Until 1988|

* Burnaby
* Capilano
* Cowichan—Malahat—The Islands
* Esquimalt—Saanich
* Kamloops—Shuswap
* Kootenay West
* Mission—Port Moody
* North Vancouver—Burnaby
* Okanagan North
* Okanagan—Similkameen
* Surrey—White Rock—North Delta
* Comox—Powell River

Until 1979|

* Burnaby—Richmond
* Burnaby—Seymour
* Coast Chilcotin
* Nanaimo (electoral district)
* Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands
* New Westminster
* Okanagan Boundary
* Okanagan—Kootenay
* Kamloops—Cariboo

Until 1968|

* Burnaby—Coquitlam
* Coast—Capilano
* Okanagan—Revelstoke
* Vancouver—Burrard

Until 1953|

* Yale

Until 1949|

* Vancouver North

Until 1925|

* Burrard
* Victoria City

Until 1917|

* Comox—Atlin
* Kootenay
* Vancouver City
* Yale—Cariboo

Until 1904|

* Vancouver

Until 1872|

* Cariboo District
* New Westminster District
* Vancouver Island
* Victoria District
* Yale District

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