Okanagan (provincial electoral district)

This page is for the defunct British Columbia provincial electoral district named Okanagan. For towns in and other information on the Okanagan region, please see Okanagan. For other electoral districts in the Okanagan, see Okanagan (electoral districts).

Okanagan was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1903 and lasting only until the election of 1912, after which it was succeeded by North Okanagan and South Okanagan. The riding was originally part of the Yale riding until 1890. When that riding was first broken up the Okanagan was in Yale-East (1894–1900).

Election results

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.

10th British Columbia election, 1903
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
     Conservative Price Ellison 725 56.77% unknown
     Liberal Thomas Willing Stirling 552 43.23% unknown
Total valid votes 1,277 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
11th British Columbia election, 1907
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
     Conservative Price Ellison 893 54.85% unknown
SocialistJohn William Stalker Logie 92 5.65% unknown
     Liberal Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald 643 39.50% unknown
Total valid votes 1,628 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
12th British Columbia election, 1909
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
     Liberal Francis Richard Edwin DeHart 741 30.04% unknown
     Conservative Price Ellison 1,538 62.34% unknown
SocialistJames Foulds Johnson 188 7.62% unknown
Total valid votes 2,467 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
13th British Columbia election, 1912
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
     Conservative Price Ellison 1,388 82.37% unknown
SocialistGeorge Faulds Sterling 297 17.63% unknown
Total valid votes 1,685 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %

Redistribution of the riding following the 1912 election and two new ridings, North Okanagan and South Okanagan first appeared in the election of 1916.

Sources

Elections BC website - historical election data

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