- Okanagan (provincial electoral district)
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- 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).
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Notable MLAs
Political geography
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 Socialist John 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 Socialist James 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 Socialist George 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.
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