Shuswap | |
Province: | British Columbia |
Prov-Status: | active |
Prov-Election-First: | 1991 |
Prov-Election-Last: | 2020 |
Prov-Rep: | Greg Kyllo |
Prov-Rep-Party: | United |
Prov-Rep-Party-Link: | BC United |
Demo-Census-Date: | 2001 |
Demo-Pop: | 49240 |
Demo-Area: | 7714 |
Demo-Cd: | Columbia-Shuswap Regional District |
Demo-Csd: | Salmon Arm, Enderby, Armstrong, Spallumcheen, Sicamous |
Shuswap is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada.
It is the successor riding to the old Salmon Arm riding. For other historical and current federal and provincial ridings in the Shuswap-Kamloops-North Okanagan, please see Kamloops (provincial electoral district), Kamloops (federal electoral district) and Okanagan (electoral districts). All ridings in the southern BC region are "descendants" of the original Yale provincial riding.
Under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed Salmon Arm-Shuswap.[1]
Population, 2001 | 49,240 | |
Population change, 1996–2001 | 1.8% | |
Area (km2) | 7,714 | |
Population density (people per km2) | 6 |
As of the 2020 provincial election, Shuswap comprises 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.[2]
This riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:
|-|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|-|}