# North Okanagan

North Okanagan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1916. Following the 1975 election boundary revisions accompanied the riding's renaming to Okanagan North. The riding was originally part of the Yale riding until 1890, and when first that riding was broken up the Okanagan was in Yale-East (1894–1900), and then in Okanagan (1903–1912). Both North Okanagan and South Okanagan were created in advance of the 1916 election.

## Notable MLAs

* Price Ellison
* Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald, 1916–1928, 1933-1945 (d. in office), Liberal
* Lorne Shantz - Social Credit
* Patricia Jordan

## Election results

Note: Winners of each election are in bold.
14th British Columbia election, 1916 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures |
| | Conservative | Price Ellison | 948 | 42.92% | unknown |
| | Liberal | Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald | 1,261 | 57.08% | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 2,209 | 100.00% |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | |
vte1920 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Liberal | Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald | 2,037 | 53.51 |
| | United Farmers | William Frederick Laidman | 1,770 | 46.49 |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 3,807 | 100.00 |
16th British Columbia election, 1924 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Provincial | Richard John Coltart | 1,070 | 26.08% |
| | Independent Conservative | Price Ellison | 764 | 18.62% |
| | Conservative | Arthur Thomas Howe | 907 | 22.11% |
| | Liberal | Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald | 1,362 | 33.20% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 4,103 | 100.00% |
1928 British Columbia general election :
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % |
| | Independent Farmer | Arthur Thomas Howe | 128 | 2.93% |
| | Conservative | William Farris Kennedy | 2,361 | 54.03% |
| | Liberal | Peter Douglas Van Kleeck | 1,881 | 43.04% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 4,370 | 100.00% |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 57 |
18th British Columbia election, 1933 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stephen Freeman | 868 | 17.95% | | unknown |
| | Non-Partisan Independent Group | Matthew Hassen | 1,646 | 34.04% | – | unknown |
| | Liberal | Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald | 2,322 | 48.01% | | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 4,836 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 46 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
19th British Columbia election, 1937 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Stephen Freeman | 700 | 13.70% | unknown |
| | Conservative | Gordon Lindsay | 1,719 | 33.65% | unknown |
| | Liberal | Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald | 2,689 | 52.64% | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 5,108 | 100.00% |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 81 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | |
20th British Columbia election, 1941 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Gordon Daniel Herbert | 1,071 | 18.16% | unknown |
| | Conservative | Lindsay Gordon | 2,320 | 39.33% | unknown |
| | Liberal | Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald | 2,508 | 42.52% | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 5,899 | 100.00% |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 79 | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | |
21st British Columbia election, 1945 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Coalition | Kenneth Cattanach MacDonald $^7$ | 2,990 | 59.78% | – | unknown |
| | Social Credit Alliance | Oswald Scheir | 430 | 8.60% | | unknown |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Leonard Warner Wood | 1,582 | 31.63% | | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 5,002 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 102 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
| $^7$ Died after the election and before the opening of the new legislature. |||||||
22nd British Columbia election, 1949 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William Alfred Monk | 2,657 | 32.61% | | unknown |
| | Coalition | Charles William Morrow | 4,966 | 60.95% | – | unknown |
| | Social Credit | Lorne Shantz | 525 | 6.44% | | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 8,148 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 190 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
23rd British Columbia election, 1952$^8$ :
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | David Fremont Buell Kinloch | 1,240 | 13.08% | - | -.- % | unknown |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William Alfred Monk | 1,786 | 18.85% | - | -.- % | unknown |
| | Liberal | Charles William Morrow | 2,104 | 22.20% | 3,063 | 35.99% | unknown |
| | Social Credit League | Lorne Shantz | 4,347 | 45.87% | 5,447 | 64.01% |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 9,477 | 100.00% | 8,510 | % | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 392 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
| $^8$ Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; first and final of three (3) counts shown only. |||||||
24th British Columbia election, 1953 $^9$ :
| Party | Candidate | Votes 1st count | % | Votes final count | % | ±% |
| | Progressive Conservative | Neville Ross Patrick Duke | 700 | 7.77% | - | -.- % | unknown |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Bruce Edward Emerson | 1,749 | 19.42% | 1,868 | 21.10% | unknown |
| | Labor-Progressive | Nicholas (Nick) Klim | 90 | 1.00% | - | -.-% |
| | Social Credit | Lorne Shantz | 4,398 | 48.82% | 4,578 | 51.71% |
| | Liberal | Franklyn Valair | 2,071 | 22.99% | 2,407 | 27.19% | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 9,008 | 100.00% | 8,853 | % | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 477 | | | | |
| Total Registered Voters | Total Registered Voters | | | | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | % | | | | |
| $^9$ Preferential ballot; final count is between top two candidates from first count; intermediary counts (of 3) not shown. |||||||
25th British Columbia election, 1956 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | John A. Davis | 2,272 | 27.14% | | unknown |
| | Labor-Progressive | Nicholas (Nick) Klim | 88 | 1.05% | | unknown |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | William Alfred Monk | 1,429 | 17.07% | | unknown |
| | Social Credit | Lorne Shantz | 4,583 | 54.74% | – | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 8,372 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 184 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
26th British Columbia election, 1960 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | John A. Davis | 1,817 | 17.16% | | unknown |
| | Labor-Progressive | Nicholas (Nick) Klim | 91 | 0.86% | | unknown |
| | Progressive Conservative | John M. Kosty | 1,098 | 10.37% | | unknown |
| | Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. | Isabella Pothecary $^{10}$ | 3,028 | 28.60% | | unknown |
| | Social Credit | Lorne Shantz | 4,553 | 43.01% | – | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 10,587 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 118 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
| $^{10}$ In 1963 Statement of Votes listed as Isobel. |||||||
27th British Columbia election, 1963 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Frank F. Becker | 2,076 | 20.75% | | unknown |
| | Progressive Conservative | Harry W. Byatt | 1,765 | 17.64% | | unknown |
| | Social Credit | George William McLeod | 4,157 | 41.55% | – | unknown |
| | New Democratic | Isobel Pothecary | 2,008 | 20.07% | | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 10,006 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 69 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
28th British Columbia election, 1966 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Frank F. Becker | 2,408 | 30.46% | | unknown |
| | Social Credit | Patricia Jordan | 3,841 | 48.59% | – | unknown |
| | New Democratic | James McAnulty | 1,535 | 19.42% | | unknown |
| | Independent | Ellwood Charles Rice | 121 | 19.42% | | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 7,905 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 63 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
29th British Columbia election, 1969 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Social Credit | Patricia Jordan | 6,610 | 60.01% | – | unknown |
| | Liberal | Robert Richard Neil | 2,127 | 19.31% | | unknown |
| | New Democratic | Colleen Wilhelmina Pringle | 2,278 | 20.68% | | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 11,015 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 103 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
30th British Columbia election, 1972 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Kenneth Leyden Christensen | 2,960 | 20.81% | | unknown |
| | Social Credit | Patricia Jordan | 5,323 | 37.43% | – | unknown |
| | Progressive Conservative | Brian George Usher | 2,080 | 14.63% | | unknown |
| | New Democratic | Jerry Winters | 3,859 | 27.13% | | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 14,222 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 118 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
31st British Columbia election, 1975 :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± | Expenditures |
| | Liberal | Daniel Gaetano DeGirolamo | 2,305 | 12.32% | | unknown |
| | New Democratic | James Arthur Foord | 6,510 | 34.78% | | unknown |
| | Social Credit | Patricia Jordan | 9,900 | 52.90% | – | unknown |
| Total valid votes | Total valid votes | Total valid votes | 18,715 | 100.00% | |
| Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | Total rejected ballots | 165 | | |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | % | | |
Redistribution of the riding following the 1975 election saw adjustments of its boundaries and a new name, Okanagan North.