Capilano—Howe Sound

Capilano—Howe Sound was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997. This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Capilano and Cariboo—Chilcotin ridings.

Capilano—Howe Sound

British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	1996
First contested	1988
Last contested	1993

It was abolished in 1996 when it was merged into West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast riding.

It consisted of the northwest part of the North Vancouver District Municipality, the District Municipality of West Vancouver, the part of electoral Area B of the Greater Vancouver Regional District west of the Capilano River and north of Electoral Area A, the Village of Lions Bay, Electoral Area C of the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, except Electoral Areas A and B and the Village of Lillooet.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Capilano and Cariboo—Chilcotin
34th	1988–1993		Mary Collins	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997		Herb Grubel	Reform
Riding abolished: see West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast

Electoral history

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Herb Grubel	17,752	41.87	+33.70
	Liberal	Audrey Sojonky	13,609	32.10	+2.42
	Progressive Conservative	Mary Collins	7,331	17.29	-29.49
	New Democratic	Sandra Bauer	1,443	3.40	-10.89
	National	Doris Fuller	1,385	3.27	–
	Green	Peggy Stortz	428	1.01	–
	Natural Law	William Alexander Cameron	266	0.63	–
	No affiliation	Audrey Ashley	100	0.24	–
	Libertarian	Bill Tomlinson	73	0.17	-0.23
	Commonwealth of Canada	Rolf A.F. Witzsche	15	0.04	–
Total valid votes			42,402	100.0
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+15.64

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Mary Collins	20,219	46.78
	Liberal	John D. Pozer	12,828	29.68
	New Democratic	Olga Kempo	6,174	14.29
	Reform	Neil Thompson	3,531	8.17
	Rhinoceros	Alfred "The Alien" Frinton	292	0.68
	Libertarian	Bill Tomlinson	173	0.40
Total valid votes			43,217	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Capilano and Cariboo—Chilcotin, both of which elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election. Mary Collins was the incumbent from Capilano.

See also

• List of Canadian electoral districts
• Historical federal electoral districts of Canada