Boundary-Similkameen
Boundary-Similkameen is a provincial riding formed in 2008. It includes the populations of Penticton-Okanagan Valley, West Kootenay-Boundary and Yale-Lillooet.[1] The riding's name corresponds to that of a former riding in the same area, with similar but not identical boundaries (see History section).
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Provincial electoral district | |||
Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
MLA |
New Democratic | ||
District created | 1988 | ||
First contested | 1988 | ||
Last contested | 2020 |
Geography
As of the 2020 provincial election, Boundary-Similkameen comprises the western portion of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary and the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, minus the northeastern portion which is part of the Penticton Electoral District. It is located in southern British Columbia and is bordered by Washington, United States to the south. Communities in the electoral district consist of Osoyoos, Oliver, Grand Forks, Princeton, and Keremeos.[2]
Member of Legislative Assembly
Due to the realignment of electoral boundaries, most incumbents did not represent the entirety of their listed district during the preceding legislative term. Bill Barisoff, British Columbia Liberal Party was initially elected during the 2005 election and 2001 election to the Penticton-Okanagan Valley riding, where the bulk of the new riding's population resides. Katrine Conroy, NDP. was the MLA for West Kootenay-Boundary, while Harry Lali, NDP, was the MLA for Yale-Lillooet (the areas of those ridings added to Boundary-Similkameen are less-populated and were not main population centres in their ridings).
History
The original riding of Boundary-Similkameen was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It spanned the Boundary Country, around the towns of Grand Forks and Rock Creek west including Oliver and Osoyoos to the Similkameen Valley towns of Keremeos and Princeton. The riding first appeared in the 1966 election as the result of a merger of the former ridings of Grand Forks-Greenwood (1924–1963) and Similkameen. Until the re-creation of Boundary-Similkameen, the former area was part of West Kootenay-Boundary; areas in the Similkameen had been part of Yale-Lillooet (which has been reconstituted as Fraser-Nicola).
For other historical and current ridings in the region, see Kootenay (electoral districts) and Okanagan (electoral districts).
Assembly | Years | Member | Party | ||||
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28th | 1966–1969 | Frank Richter Jr. | Social Credit | ||||
29th | 1969–1972 | ||||||
30th | 1972–1975 | ||||||
31st | 1975–1979 | Jim Hewitt | |||||
32nd | 1979–1983 | ||||||
33rd | 1983–1986 | ||||||
Two Member District from 1986-1991 | Member | Party | |||||
34th | 1986–1988 | Jim Hewitt | Social Credit | Ivan Messmer | Social Credit | ||
1988–1991 | Bill Barlee | New Democrat | |||||
Okanagan-Boundary | |||||||
35th | 1991–1996 | Bill Barlee | New Democrat | ||||
36th | 1996–2001 | Bill Barisoff | Liberal | ||||
Boundary-Similkameen | |||||||
39th | 2009–2013 | John Slater | Liberal | ||||
40th | 2013–2017 | Linda Larson | |||||
41st | 2017–2020 | ||||||
42nd | 2020–present | Roly Russell | New Democrat |
Demographics
Population, 1966 | |
Population change, 1966–1986 | |
Area (km2) | |
Population density (people per km2) |
Electoral history
2020 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
New Democratic | Roly Russell | 10,500 | 49.85 | +17.12 | $22,881.87 | |||
Liberal | Petra Veintimilla | 7,735 | 36.72 | −6.08 | $46,981.69 | |||
Conservative | Darryl Seres | 2,354 | 11.18 | – | $3,145.37 | |||
Wexit | Arlyn Greig | 474 | 2.25 | – | $647.44 | |||
Total valid votes | 21,063 | 100.00 | – | |||||
Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
Turnout | ||||||||
Registered voters | ||||||||
Source: Elections BC[3] |
2017 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Linda Larson | 9,513 | 42.80 | −3.79 | $68,560.09 | |||
New Democratic | Colleen Ross | 7,275 | 32.73 | −6.26 | $60,024.28 | |||
Independent | Peter Entwistle | 3,165 | 14.24 | – | $3,653.00 | |||
Green | Vonnie Lavers | 2,274 | 10.23 | +1.45 | $1,170.00 | |||
Total valid votes | 22,227 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 98 | 0.44 | ||||||
Turnout | 22,325 | 64.52 | ||||||
Source: Elections BC[4][5] |
2013 British Columbia general election | ||||||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
Liberal | Linda Larson | 8,499 | 46.59 | +9.14 | $61,031 | |||
New Democratic | Sam Hancheroff | 7,113 | 38.99 | +6.08 | $70,135 | |||
Green | John Kwasnica | 1,602 | 8.78 | −0.7 | $1,334 | |||
No Affiliation | Mischa Popoff | 655 | 3.59 | – | $3,725 | |||
Independent | Doug Pederson | 375 | 2.06 | – | $0 | |||
Total valid votes | 18,244 | 100.00 | ||||||
Total rejected ballots | 113 | 0.62 | ||||||
Turnout | 18,357 | 61.85 | ||||||
Source: Elections BC[6] |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Liberal | John Slater | 6,681 | 37.45% | -8.25 | $99,832 | |
NDP | Lakhvinder Jhaj | 5,870 | 32.91% | -7.89 | $52,629 | |
Conservative | Joe Cardoso | 3,596 | 20.16% | $20,592 | ||
Green | Bob Grieve | 1,691 | 9.48% | -0.02 | $2,025 | |
Total valid votes | 17,838 | 100% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 122 | 0.68% | ||||
Turnout | 17,960 | 62.31% |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democratic | Bill Barlee | 15,778 | 52.82% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Russ Fox | 10,515 | 35.44% | – | unknown | |
Liberal | Judi Tyabji | 3,144 | 10.53% | – | unknown | |
Green | Rus Domer | 361 | 1.21% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 29,868 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 218 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
2 Seat increased to two members from one. |
The 1988 byelection, which elected NDP member Bill Barlee, was the last appearance of the Boundary-Similkameen riding until its recreation in 2009. For the 1991 election, the area became represented by Okanagan-Boundary.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Jim Hewitt | 18,204 | 29.99% | – | unknown | |
Social Credit | Ivan Messmer | 16,150 | 26.61% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Eldon John Harrop | 11,656 | 19.21% | unknown | ||
New Democratic | Wesley G. Nickel | 11,427 | 18.83% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Anna Rita Lusier | 1,729 | 2.85% | – | unknown | |
Green | John Mercer Hughes | 893 | 1.47% | – | unknown | |
Green | David G. Cursons | 634 | 1.04% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 60,693 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 758 | |||||
Turnout | % | |||||
2 Seat increased to two members from one. |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Jim Hewitt | 18,869 | 54.82% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Yvonne Joan Storey | 14,468 | 42.03% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Kenneth Leslie Carig Hasanen | 1,086 | 3.15% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 34,423 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 312 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Jim Hewitt | 13,739 | 47.56% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Bryan Patrick McIver | 11,485 | 39.76% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | John Edwin Swales | 3,662 | 12.68% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 28,886 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 324 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Jim Hewitt | 10,784 | 48.31% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Yvonne Joan Storey | 9,183 | 41.13% | unknown | ||
Progressive Conservative | Barry Donald Montgomery | 1,778 | 7.96% | unknown | ||
Liberal | James Elder | 580 | 2.60% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 22,325 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 161 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Frank Richter, Jr. | 8,092 | 44.11% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Bill Barlee | 6,850 | 37.34% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Ruth Schiller | 1,855 | 10.11 | – | unknown | |
Progressive Conservative | Donald James Ewart | 1,550 | 8.45% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 18,347 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 122 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Frank Richter, Jr. | 8,944 | 54.29% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Bill Barlee | 4,957 | 30.09% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Donald Grant MacDonald | 2,575 | 15.63% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 16,476 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 122 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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Social Credit | Frank Richter, Jr. | 6,547 | 55.44% | – | unknown | |
New Democratic | Lois Haggen | 3,669 | 31.07% | unknown | ||
Liberal | John Victor Hyde Wilson | 1,594 | 13.50% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 11,810 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 87 | |||||
Turnout | % |
References
- "CBC.ca - B.C. Votes - Boundary-Similkameen". CBC. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- "Boundary-Similkameen Electoral District" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
- "2020 Provincial General Election Final Voting Results". electionsbcenr.blob.core.windows.net. Retrieved 2020-11-17.
- "Statement of Votes - 2017 Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 26 Dec 2018.
- "Statement of Election Income and Expenses". Elections BC. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- "Statement of Votes - 40th Provincial General Election" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved 17 May 2017.