Kamloops—Cariboo

Kamloops—Cariboo
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1966
District abolished	1976
First contested	1968
Last contested	1974

Kamloops—Cariboo was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1968 to 1979.

This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Cariboo and Kamloops ridings.

Members of Parliament[edit]

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Cariboo and Kamloops
28th	1968–1972	Leonard Marchand	Liberal
29th	1972–1974
30th	1974–1979
Riding dissolved into Cariboo—Chilcotin, Kamloops—Shuswap, Okanagan North, Okanagan—Similkameen and Prince George—Bulkley Valley

v t e 1968 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Leonard Stephen Marchand	13,000	40.48
	Progressive Conservative	Edmund Davie Fulton	9,704	30.22
	New Democratic	Vernor Wilfred Jones	7,566	23.56
	Social Credit	Peter Robert Gook	1,842	5.74
Total valid votes			32,112	100.0
This riding was created from Cariboo and Kamloops, which elected a Social Credit and a Progressive Conservative, respectively, in the last election. Davie Fulton was the incumbent from Kamloops.

v t e 1972 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Leonard S. Marchand	14,707	35.19	-5.29
	Progressive Conservative	Roy Hewson	13,993	33.48	+3.26
	New Democratic	John Farr	11,002	26.33	+2.77
	Social Credit	Peter R. Gook	2,089	5.00	-0.74
Total valid votes			41,791	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		-4.28

v t e 1974 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Len Marchand	20,474	41.73	+6.54
	Progressive Conservative	Donald W. Couch	17,328	35.32	+1.84
	New Democratic	Ron Anderson	9,478	19.32	-7.01
	Social Credit	Laurie Brigden	1,782	3.63	-1.37
Total valid votes			49,062	100.0
	Liberal hold		Swing		+2.35