Kamloops—Shuswap

Kamloops — Shuswap was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 1988. This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan—Kootenay ridings.

Kamloops—Shuswap

British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1976
District abolished	1987
First contested	1979
Last contested	1984

It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Kamloops and Okanagan—Shuswap ridings.

It consisted of:

• the part of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lying east of Electoral Areas E and I and north of Electoral Area M; and
• the part of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District lying west of Electoral Area B.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
Riding created from Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan—Kootenay
31st	1979–1980		Donald Niel Cameron	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1980–1984		Nelson Riis	New Democratic
33rd	1984–1988
Riding dissolved into Kamloops and Okanagan—Shuswap

Election results

1984 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Nelson A. Riis	30,512	54.08	+4.05
	Progressive Conservative	Robert Michael Latta	20,500	36.33	-8.53
	Liberal	Patricia Anne Wallace	4,675	8.29	+3.85
	Rhinoceros	A. Dean Purych	353	0.63	-0.03
	Green	Connie Harris	216	0.38	–
	Confederation of Regions	E. Neville Houghton	102	0.18	–
	Independent	Leon Mikulin	65	0.12	–
Total valid votes			56,423	100.0
	New Democratic hold		Swing		+6.29

1980 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Nelson A. Riis	17,896	39.10	+11.57
	Progressive Conservative	Don Cameron	16,046	35.06	-8.68
	Liberal	Malcolm Bates (Mack) Bryson	11,588	25.32	-3.40
	Rhinoceros	Kyle Storey	237	0.52	–
Total valid votes			35,767	100.0
	New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+10.69

1979 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Don Cameron	19,369	43.74
	Liberal	Len Marchand	12,720	28.72
	New Democratic	Ron H. Anderson	12,193	27.53
Total valid votes			44,282	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan—Kootenay, which elected two Progressive Conservatives and one Liberal (Kamloops—Cariboo). Liberal Leonard Marchand was the incumbent from Kamloops—Cariboo.

See also

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