Shuswap-Revelstoke
Shuswap-Revelstoke was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1979 to 1991. The riding was formed by merging the northern portions of the Revelstoke-Slocan riding with the Shuswap riding. The successor riding for the Revelstoke area is the current Columbia River-Revelstoke riding.
For other historical and current ridings in the region see Kootenay (electoral districts) and Okanagan (electoral districts).
Demographics
Population, 1976 | |
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Political geography
Electoral history
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
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New Democratic | William Stewart King | 10,654 | 47.95% | unknown | ||
Social Credit | Leonard Bawtree | 10,008 | 45.04% | – | unknown | |
Progressive Conservative | Harold A. Smiley | 1,557 | 7.01% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 22,219 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 293 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Cliff Michael | 14,102 | 52.07% | – | unknown | |
New Democrat | William Stewart King | 12,340 | 45.56% | unknown | ||
Liberal | Basil Edward Studer | 642 | 2.37% | unknown | ||
Total valid votes | 27,084 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 320 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Social Credit | Cliff Michael | 12,302 | 50.72% | – | unknown | |
New Democrat | Gordon S. Priestman | 10,768 | 44.40 | unknown | ||
Liberal | Basil Edward Studer | 786 | 3.24% | unknown | ||
Green | Constance Katherine (Connie) Harris | 397 | 1.64% | – | unknown | |
Total valid votes | 24,253 | 100.00% | ||||
Total rejected ballots | 452 | |||||
Turnout | % |
Following the 1986 election the area was redistributed. The Shuswap area became the Shuswap riding while the Revelstoke area became part of Columbia River-Revelstoke.
Sources
Elections BC Historical Returns
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British Columbia provincial electoral districts (1979–1991)
- Atlin
- Cariboo ‡
- North Peace River
- Omineca
- Prince George North
- Prince George South
- Prince Rupert
- Skeena
- South Peace River
- Boundary-Similkameen ‡
- Columbia River
- Kamloops ‡
- Kootenay
- Nelson-Creston
- Okanagan North
- Okanagan South ‡
- Rossland-Trail
- Shuswap-Revelstoke
- Yale-Lillooet
- Central Fraser Valley ‡
- Chilliwack
- Delta ‡
- Dewdney ‡
- Langley ‡
- Richmond ‡
- Surrey (2) †
- Burnaby-Edmonds
- Burnaby North
- Burnaby-Willingdon
- Coquitlam-Moody
- Maillardville-Coquitlam
- New Westminster
- North Vancouver-Capilano
- North Vancouver-Seymour
- Vancouver Centre (2)
- Vancouver East (2)
- Vancouver-Little Mountain (2)
- Vancouver-Point Grey (2)
- Vancouver South (2)
- West Vancouver-Howe Sound
- Alberni
- Comox
- Cowichan-Malahat
- Esquimalt-Port Renfrew
- Mackenzie
- Nanaimo ‡
- North Island
- Oak Bay-Gordon Head
- Saanich and the Islands ‡
- Victoria (2)
- ‡ – from 1986–1991, was a 2-seat constituency
- † – from 1986–1991, was broken into 3 single-seat constituencies
- Surrey-Guildford-Whalley
- Surrey-Newton
- Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale