South Okanagan—West Kootenay

South Okanagan—West Kootenay
British Columbia electoral district
Federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
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District created	2013
First contested	2015
District webpage	profile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)	112,096
Electors (2011)	88,519
Area (km²)	18,139
Pop. density (per km²)	6.2
Census divisions	Central Kootenay, Kootenay Boundary, Okanagan-Similkameen
Census subdivisions	Castlegar, Central Kootenay H, Grand Forks, Okanagan-Similkameen C, Okanagan-Similkameen D, Oliver, Osoyoos, Penticton, Rossland, Trail

South Okanagan—West Kootenay (French: Okanagan-Sud—Kootenay-Ouest) is a federal electoral district in British Columbia. It encompasses a portion of British Columbia previously included in the electoral districts of British Columbia Southern Interior (58%), Kootenay—Columbia (3%), and Okanagan—Coquihalla (39%).^[2]

South Okanagan—West Kootenay was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.^[3]

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of the House of Commons of Canada:

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
South Okanagan—West Kootenay Riding created from British Columbia Southern Interior, Kootenay—Columbia and Okanagan—Coquihalla
42nd	2015–Present		Richard Cannings	New Democratic

Canadian federal election, 2015
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	∆%	Expenditures
	New Democratic	Richard Cannings	24,823	37.28	-2.16	–
	Conservative	Marshall Neufeld	19,871	29.84	-14.93	–
	Liberal	Connie Denesiuk	18,732	28.13	+21.03	–
	Green	Samantha Troy	2,792	4.19	-3.94	–
	Independent	Brian Gray	376	0.56	–	–
Total valid votes/Expense limit			66,594	100.00		$245,563.16
Total rejected ballots			216	0.32	–
Turnout			66,810	73.67	–
Eligible voters			90,694 Template:CANelec/notgain
Source: Elections Canada^[4]^[5]

2011 federal election redistributed results^[6]
Party		Vote	%
	Conservative	24,846	44.77
	New Democratic	21,886	39.44
	Green	4,512	8.13
	Liberal	3,942	7.10
	Others	308	0.56

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Conservative	Cariboo—Prince George Central Okanagan—Similkameen—Nicola Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo North Okanagan—Shuswap Prince George—Peace River—Northern Rockies
New Democratic	Kootenay—Columbia Skeena—Bulkley Valley South Okanagan—West Kootenay
Liberal	Kelowna—Lake Country

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