Okanagan Centre

Okanagan Centre
British Columbia electoral district
Defunct federal electoral district
Legislature	House of Commons
District created	1987
District abolished	1996
First contested	1988
Last contested	1993

Okanagan Centre was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997. This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen, and eliminated in 1996 when it was merged into Kelowna.

Members of Parliament

Parliament	Years		Party
Riding created from Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen
34th	1988–1993	Al Horning	Progressive Conservative
35th	1993–1997	Werner Schmidt	Reform
Riding dissolved into Kelowna

1993 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Reform	Werner Schmidt	30,653	46.62	+32.09
	Liberal	Murli Pendharkar	15,667	23.83	+6.77
	Progressive Conservative	Al Horning	12,608	19.18	-18.07
	New Democratic	Bryan Mciver	4,556	6.93	-23.28
	National	Jack Davis	1,080	1.64	–
	Green	David Hughes	665	1.01	+0.06
	Natural Law	Douglas Walker	208	0.32	–
	Canada Party	Faye Stroo	179	0.27	–
	Independent	Trevor L. Adams	134	0.20	–
Total valid votes			65,750	100.0
	Reform gain from Progressive Conservative		Swing		+12.66

1988 Canadian federal election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
	Progressive Conservative	Al Horning	19,485	37.25
	New Democratic	Bryan Mciver	15,800	30.21
	Liberal	Murli Pendharkar	8,922	17.06
	Reform	Werner Schmidt	7,599	14.53
	Green	David Hughes	496	0.95
Total valid votes			52,302	100.0
This riding was created from parts of Okanagan North and Okanagan—Similkameen, both of which elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election.