Salmon Arm-Shuswap (formerly Shuswap from 1991 until 2024) is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.

It is the successor riding to the old Salmon Arm riding. The riding adopted its current name and had minor boundary changes from the 2024 election, which implemented the results of the 2021 redistribution.

Demographics

{| class="wikitable"

|Population, 2001

|49,240

|-

|Population change, 1996–2001

|1.8%

|-

|Area (km<sup>2</sup>)

|7,714

|-

|Population density (people per km<sup>2</sup>)

|6

|}

Geography

As of the 2020 provincial election, Shuswap comprised the western portion of the Columbia-Shuswap Regional District and the northwestern portion of the Regional District of North Okanagan. It is located in southern British Columbia. Communities in the electoral district consist of Salmon Arm, Armstrong, Spallumcheen, Enderby, and Sicamous.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Election results

{| class="wikitable"

|-

! colspan="4" | 2020 provincial election redistributed results

|-

! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="130px" colspan="2" | Party

! bgcolor="#DDDDFF" width="30px" | %

|-

| | &nbsp;

| Liberal ||align=right| 51.2

|-

| | &nbsp;

| New Democratic ||align=right| 34.1

|-

| | &nbsp;

| Green ||align=right| 14.6

|-

| | &nbsp;

| Conservative ||align=right| 0.1

|}

|-

|NDP

|Steve Gunner

|align="right"|7,051

|align="right"|30.54%

|align="right"|

|align="right"|$41,011

| Conservative

| Beryl Ludwig

|align="right"|2,374

|align="right"|10.28%

|align="right"|

|align="right"|$9,378

|}

|NDP

|Wayne Fowler

|align="right"|3,788

|align="right"|16.46%

|align="right"|$12,950

|No Affiliation

|Jeanette (N.O.) McLennan

|align="right"|119

|align="right"|0.52%

|align="right"|$100

|}

|-

|NDP

|Calvin White

|align="right"|7,869

|align="right"|31.63%

|align="right"|

|align="right"|$37,552

|-

|No Affiliation

|Gordon Campbell

|align="right"|810

|align="right"|3.26%

|align="right"|

|align="right"|

|Independent

|Merv Ritchie

|align="right"|204

|align="right"|0.82%

|align="right"|

|align="right"|$505

|}

|-

|NDP

|Shannon O'Neill

|align="right"|7,687

|align="right"|35.50%

|align="right"|

|align="right"|$33,572

|-

|}

See also

  • List of electoral districts in the Okanagan
  • List of British Columbia provincial electoral districts
  • Canadian provincial electoral districts
  • Yale (provincial electoral district)

References

  • BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)
  • Results of 2001 election (pdf)
  • 2001 Expenditures
  • Results of 1996 election
  • 1996 Expenditures
  • Results of 1991 election
  • 1991 Expenditures
  • Website of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia