Comox – Powell River was a federal electoral district

Electoral district (Canada)

An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

 in British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1979 to 1988.

This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Coast Chilcotin

Coast Chilcotin

Coast Chilcotin was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. It was located in the province of British Columbia.- Geography :...

, Comox–Alberni and Skeena

Skeena (electoral district)

Skeena was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 2004.-Geography:This was a rural, mostly wilderness, riding in northwestern B.C...

 ridings.

It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Comox—Alberni and North Island – Powell River ridings.

It consisted of

• the Mount Waddington Regional District;
• the Powell River Regional District, except Lasqueti Island and the adjacent smaller islands;
• the Comox–Strathcona Regional District;
• the Central Coast Regional District;
• the southern part of the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District, i.e., the part lying south of a line drawn from east to west along Finlayson Channel
  Finlayson Channel
  Finlayson Channel is a channel of the British Columbia Coast. It is a northern extension of Milbanke Sound. To its west are Swindle and Sarah Islands, to its east Roderick, Susan and Dowager Islands. It was first charted in 1793 by James Johnstone, one of George Vancouver's lieutenants during his...
  
  , Sarah Passage, Tolmie Channel, Meyers Passage and Laredo Sound; and
• the Sunshine Coast Regional District.

Election results

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|SKELLY, Ray ||align=right|22,075
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|LAZERTE, Al ||align=right|17,556
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|PEARSALL, Jack ||align=right|9,910
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|PEDERSON, Sy ||align=right| 314
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|SKELLY, Raymond ||align=right|25,007
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|LAZERTE, Al ||align=right|16,545
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|MCLOUGHLIN, Shirley ||align=right|9,221
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|PEDERSON, Sy ||align=right| 292
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|SKELLY, Raymond ||align=right|27,288
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|HICKS, Mike ||align=right|26,566
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|NESBITT, Wayne ||align=right|5,790
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|WHITE, Wayne D. ||align=right| 505
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|GRIFFITHS, Allan W. ||align=right|452
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|HIGGIN, Rob ||align=right| 357
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|PEDERSON, Sy ||align=right| 215

See also

• List of Canadian federal electoral districts
• Past Canadian electoral districts

External links

• Riding history from the Library of Parliament
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