Election Results
Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
| 32nd British Columbia election, 1979 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Social Credit | William Richards Bennett | 20,552 | 62.45% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Hugh Duncan Dendy | 10,881 | 33.06% | unknown | ||
| Progressive Conservative | Ernest Garedner Arthur | 1,479 | 4.49% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 32,912 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 324 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 33rd British Columbia election, 1983 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| Independent | Frederick L. Bartell | 165 | 0.39% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | William Richards Bennett | 27,647 | 66.05% | unknown | ||
| Independent | Peter C.L. Griffiths | 338 | 0.81% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | Robert N, McKee | 848 | 2.03% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Brian Christopher Taylor | 12,859 | 30.72% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 41,857 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 476 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 33rd British Columbia election, 1986 1 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |
| New Republic Party | Frederick L. Bartell | 245 | 0.31% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Larry Chalmers | 23,380 | 29.25% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Hugh Duncan Dendy | 13,035 | 16.31% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | William Henry Gow | 3,225 | 4.03% | unknown | ||
| Liberal | David G. King | 3,651 | 4.57% | unknown | ||
| New Democrat | Eileen M. Robertson | 12,111 | 15.15% | unknown | ||
| Social Credit | Clifford Jack Serwa | 24,287 | 30.38% | unknown | ||
| Total valid votes | 79,934 | 100.00% | ||||
| Total rejected ballots | 1,094 | |||||
| Turnout | % | |||||
| 1 | ||||||
Redistribution of the riding following the 1986 election saw the seat broken into two, Okanagan West and Okanagan East.
Read more about this topic: Okanagan South
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