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West Kootenay-Boundary was a provincial

Provinces and territories of Canada

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electoral district

Electoral district

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for the Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is one of two components of the Parliament of British Columbia, the provincial parliament ....

of British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

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from 2001 to 2009.

The seat combined the Rossland/Trail/Castlegar area (the putative West Kootenay component) that had previously been in Rossland-Trail

Rossland-Trail

Rossland-Trail was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the towns of Rossland and Trail, in the West Kootenay. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a redistribution of the former ridings of Greenwood and...

with the Boundary Country

Boundary Country

The Boundary Country is a historical designation for a district in southern British Columbia lying, as its name suggests, along the boundary between Canada and the United States. It lies to the east of the southern Okanagan Valley and to the west of the West Kootenay. It is often included in...

, which had been in the Okanagan-Boundary

Okanagan-Boundary

Okanagan-Boundary was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia spanning the area from the Similkameen towns of Kaleden and Keremeos to Grand Forks and Christina Lake, and including the southern Okanagan towns of Okanagan Falls, Oliver, Osoyoos, Rock Creek and...

riding (1991–1996) and prior to that the Boundary-Similkameen

Boundary-Similkameen

Boundary-Similkameen is a new riding which was formed in 2008 assembled together with populations of Penticton-Okanagan Valley, West Kootenay-Boundary and Yale-Lillooet...

riding.

For other historical and current ridings in the Kootenay

Kootenays

The Kootenay Region comprises the southeastern portion of British Columbia. It takes its name from the Kootenay River, which in turn was named for the Ktunaxa First Nation first encountered by explorer David Thompson.-Boundaries:The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Kootenay Land...

and Boundary Countries please see Kootenay (electoral districts)

Kootenay (electoral districts)

Kootenay is a name found in various provincial and federal electoral districts in the Canadian province of British Columbia. This page lists ridings with the name Kootenay in them, and also other ridings within the Kootenay region....

Demographics

Population, 2001	44,794
Population Change, 1996–2001	-2.6%
Area (km²)	9,926
Pop. Density (people per km²)	4.5

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA

Member of the Legislative Assembly

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is Katrine Conroy

Katrine Conroy

Katrine Conroy is a former MLA for West Kootenay-Boundary in the Canadian province of British Columbia.She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the 2005 election. She is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party...

. She was first elected in 2005. She represents the New Democratic Party of British Columbia

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

The New Democratic Party of British Columbia is a social-democratic political party in British Columbia, Canada. The party currently forms the official opposition to the governing British Columbia Liberal Party following the 2009 provincial election in British Columbia.The BC NDP is the provincial...

Election results

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|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|Katrine Conroy

Katrine Conroy

British Columbia Liberal Party

The British Columbia Liberal Party is the governing political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected for government in 1916, the party went into decline after 1952, with its rump caucus merging with the Social Credit Party for the 1975 election...

Green Party of British Columbia

The Green Party of British Columbia is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. It is led by former Esquimalt municipal councillor, university professor and businessperson Jane Sterk, she was elected by the party in 2007. Penticton realtor and columnist Julius Bloomfield serves as the deputy...

British Columbia Conservative Party

The British Columbia Conservative Party is a political party in British Columbia, Canada. First elected as the government in 1903, the party went into decline after 1933...

|Barry Edward Chilton
|align="right"|802
|align="right"|3.63%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$1,170

|No Affiliation
|Glen David Millar
|align="right"|180
|align="right"|0.81%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$100

|Bloc BC
|A.J. van Leur
|align="right"|59
|align="right"|0.27%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$100
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|22,100
!align="right"|100%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|123
!align="right"|0.56%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|22,223
!align="right"|68.6%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}
|-

| style="width: 130px" |BC Liberal

British Columbia Liberal Party

|Sandy Santori

Sandy Santori

Sandy Santori is a former Canadian politician, who served as a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005. He had previously served as the Mayor of Trail, British Columbia and in his youth was the goalie of the Nelson Bantams team that won the 1969 Bantam...

|align="right"|10,784
|align="right"|49.74%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$48,035
|-

|NDP

New Democratic Party of British Columbia

|Ed Conroy

Ed Conroy (politician)

Ed Conroy is a Canadian politician, who was MLA for Rossland-Trail in the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1991 to 2001. He is a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party....

Green Party of British Columbia

British Columbia Marijuana Party

The British Columbia Marijuana Party is a minor political party in the Canadian province of British Columbia that advocates the legalisation of cannabis....

|Brian Taylor
|align="right"|840
|align="right"|3.88%
|align="right"|
|align="right"|$100
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Valid Votes
!align="right"|21,682
!align="right"|100.00%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Total Rejected Ballots
!align="right"|71
!align="right"|0.33%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|- bgcolor="white"
!align="right" colspan=3|Turnout
!align="right"|21,753
!align="right"|74.42%
!align="right"|
!align="right"|
|}

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