Kamloops — Shuswap 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

Canada

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, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1979 to 1988.

This riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East

Fraser Valley East

Fraser Valley East was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from1968 to 1997.This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Fraser Valley, Kamloops and Okanagan Boundary ridings....

, Kamloops—Cariboo

Kamloops—Cariboo

Kamloops–Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979.This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Cariboo and Kamloops ridings....

 and Okanagan—Kootenay

Okanagan—Kootenay

Okanagan—Kootenay was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979.This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Kamloops, Kootenay East and Okanagan—Revelstoke ridings....

 ridings.

It was abolished in 1987 when it was redistributed into Kamloops

Kamloops (electoral district)

Kamloops was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1935 to 1968, and from 1988 to 2004. From 1998 to 2004, it was known as Kamloops, Thompson and Highland Valleys.-History:...

 and Okanagan—Shuswap

Okanagan—Shuswap

Okanagan—Shuswap is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988.-Geography:...

 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.

Election results

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|CAMERON, Don ||align=right|19,369
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|MARCHAND, Len ||align=right|12,720
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|ANDERSON, Ron H. ||align=right|12,193
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|RIIS, Nelson A.

Nelson Riis

Nelson Andrew Riis currently a businessman and is a former Canadian politician and New Democratic Party Member of Parliament .Riis graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Ed, and MA...

 ||align=right|17,896
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|CAMERON, Don ||align=right|16,046
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|BRYSON, Mack ||align=right| 1,588
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|STOREY, Kyle ||align=right|237
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|RIIS, Nelson A.

Nelson Riis

Nelson Andrew Riis currently a businessman and is a former Canadian politician and New Democratic Party Member of Parliament .Riis graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.Ed, and MA...

 ||align=right|30,512
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|LATTA, Robert Michael ||align=right| 20,500
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|WALLACE, Patricia Anne ||align=right|4,675
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|PURYCH, A. Dean ||align=right|353
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|HARRIS, Connie ||align=right| 216
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|HOUGHTON, E. Neville ||align=right|102
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|MIKULIN, Leon ||align=right| 65

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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