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South Okanagan—West Kootenay was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015. [3] Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed ...
The Kootenays are more or less defined by the Kootenay Land District, though some variation exists in terms of what areas are or are not a part.The strictest definition of the region is the drainage basin of the lower Kootenay River from its re-entry into Canada near Creston, through to its confluence with the Columbia at Castlegar (illustrated by a, right).
Federally, the Boundary Country is now part of the South Okanagan—West Kootenay electoral district. Historically it was originally part of the Yale riding (1871-1952) and afterwards had been in the Okanagan Boundary (1952-1966), the Okanagan—Kootenay (1966-1968), and the British Columbia Southern Interior (1997-2015) ridings.
British Columbia Southern Interior (formerly known as Southern Interior, Kootenay—Boundary—Okanagan and West Kootenay—Okanagan) was a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that had been represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015.
The redefined Kootenay—Columbia gains the communities of Nelson, Salmo and Kaslo and their respective surrounding areas from the current electoral district of British Columbia Southern Interior, while losing Nakusp and area to the new district of South Okanagan—West Kootenay and Needles and area to the new district of North Okanagan—Shuswap.
Provincially, Grand Forks is located in the constituency of Boundary-Similkameen, where it is represented by MLA Donegal Wilson (BC Conservative Party), who defeated the NDP incumbent, Roly Russell in this year's Provincial Election, and federally it is located in the South Okanagan—West Kootenay riding and represented by MP Richard Cannings.
The primary agricultural region is the Kootenai Valley of northern Idaho south of Kootenay Lake. [101] The West Kootenay, however, is transitioning from a coal-mining to a tourism-based economy, [108] and the rest of the Kootenay region is also starting to do so. The economy of southeastern British Columbia is becoming increasingly reliant on ...
This is a list of Canada's 338 federal electoral districts (commonly referred to as ridings in Canadian English) as defined by the 2013 Representation Order.. Canadian federal electoral districts are constituencies that elect members of Parliament to House of Commons of Canada every election.