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Okanagan—Similkameen

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Legislature
  
House of Commons

District abolished
  
1987

Last contested
  
1984

District created
  
1976

First contested
  
1979

Okanagan—Similkameen was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988.

Map of Okanagan-Similkameen, BC, Canada

The riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary ridings.

It consisted of:

  • the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen
  • part of the Regional District of Central Okanagan lying west of the westerly boundaries of Electoral Area A and Electoral Area I
  • part of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary lying west of the westerly boundary of Electoral Area B
  • part of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lying east of the easterly boundary of Electoral Area I and south of the southerly boundaries of Electoral Area J and Electoral Area L.

    • References

    Okanagan—Similkameen Wikipedia
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