 British Columbia electoral district | |||
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| Provincial electoral district | |||
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
| MLA |
Liberal | ||
| District created | 2008 | ||
| First contested | 2009 | ||
| Last contested | 2020 | ||
| Demographics | |||
| Population (2006) | 51,958 | ||
| Electors (2013) | 44,830 | ||
| Area (km²) | 1,139.78 | ||
| Pop. density (per km²) | 45.6 | ||
| Census division(s) | Regional District of Central Okanagan | ||
| Census subdivision(s) | Central Okanagan J, Kelowna, Tsinstikeptum 9, Tsinstikeptum 10, West Kelowna | ||
Kelowna West, formerly Westside-Kelowna, is a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, established by the Electoral Districts Act, 2008. It was first contested in the 2009 general election. The riding was created out of parts of Okanagan-Westside, Kelowna-Lake Country and Kelowna-Mission. It was renamed Kelowna West in the 2015 electoral redistribution with only minor boundary changes.
Just weeks after the 2013 British Columbia election, newly re-elected MLA Ben Stewart resigned to allow Premier Christy Clark, who had lost her own seat, to run in a by-election.[1]
Clark resigned the seat and leadership of the BC Liberals effective August 4, 2017, after losing a confidence vote. A by-election for the seat was held on February 14, 2018.[2]
Under the 2021 British Columbia electoral redistribution the riding will be divided, with portions on the west side of Okanagan Lake being redistributed to the new district of West Kelowna-Peachland and portions east of Okanagan Lake in the City of Kelowna transferring to the new district of Kelowna Centre.[3]
The riding contains the city of West Kelowna, all of the Regional District of Central Okanagan west of Lake Okanagan and north of Peachland and the central part of the city of Kelowna.[4]
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westside-Kelowna | ||||
| 39th | 2009–2013 | Ben Stewart | Liberal | |
| 40th | 2013 | |||
| 2013–2017 | Christy Clark | |||
| Kelowna West | ||||
| 41st | 2017 | Christy Clark | Liberal | |
| 2018 – August 2019 | Ben Stewart | |||
| August–October 2019[5] | Independent | |||
| October 2019 – 2020 | Liberal | |||
| 42nd | November 2020–present | |||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ben Stewart | 12,991 | 49.89 | −6.39 | $25,167.49 | |||
| New Democratic | Spring Hawes | 8,854 | 34.00 | +10.49 | $3,285.58 | |||
| Green | Peter Truch | 3,274 | 12.57 | −0.10 | $3,191.00 | |||
| Libertarian | Matt Badura | 474 | 1.82 | +1.01 | $0.00 | |||
| Independent | Magee Mitchell | 446 | 1.71 | – | $472.20 | |||
| Total valid votes | 26,039 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | ||||||||
| Turnout | ||||||||
| Registered voters | ||||||||
| Source: Elections BC[6][7] | ||||||||
| British Columbia provincial by-election, February 14, 2018 | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ben Stewart | 8,406 | 56.28 | −2.77 | $87,790 | |||
| New Democratic | Shelley Cook | 3,511 | 23.51 | −1.63 | $49,337 | |||
| Green | Robert Stupka | 1,893 | 12.67 | −1.00 | $54,984 | |||
| Conservative | Mark Thompson | 1,006 | 6.73 | – | $6,419 | |||
| Libertarian | Kyle Michael Ernest Geronazzo | 121 | 0.81 | – | $250 | |||
| Total valid votes | 14,937 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 35 | 0.23 | +0.07 | |||||
| Turnout | 14,972 | 31.55 | −9.29 | |||||
| Registered voters | 47,461 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | −0.57 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[8] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Christy Clark | 15,674 | 58.98 | +0.98 | $80,880 | |||
| New Democratic | Shelley Cook | 6,712 | 25.25 | −5.71 | $26,274 | |||
| Green | Robert Mellalieu | 3,628 | 13.65 | – | $1,399 | |||
| Independent | Brian Thiesen | 570 | 2.14 | – | $2,045 | |||
| Total valid votes | 26,584 | 100.0 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 128 | 0.48 | +0.32 | |||||
| Turnout | 26,712 | 55.46 | +14.62 | |||||
| Registered voters | 48,162 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +3.34 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[9] | ||||||||
| British Columbia provincial by-election, July 10, 2013: Westside-Kelowna | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Christy Clark | 11,758 | 62.66 | +4.58 | $56,758 | |||
| New Democratic | Carole Gordon | 5,563 | 29.64 | −1.20 | $38,827 | |||
| Conservative | Sean Upshaw | 1,115 | 5.94 | −5.14 | $9,755 | |||
| Independent | Dayleen Van Ryswyk | 134 | 0.71 | – | $373 | |||
| Independent | John Marks | 74 | 0.39 | – | $250 | |||
| Independent | Silverado Brooks Socrates | 46 | 0.25 | – | $250 | |||
| Vision | JB Bhandari | 45 | 0.24 | – | $2,261 | |||
| Independent | Korry Zepik | 31 | 0.17 | – | $440 | |||
| Total valid votes | 18,766 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 31 | 0.16 | −0.80 | |||||
| Turnout | 18,797 | 40.84 | −6.68 | |||||
| Registered voters | 46,021 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +2.89 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[10][11] | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Ben Stewart | 12,405 | 58.07 | +4.75 | $74,230 | |||
| New Democratic | Carole Gordon | 6,588 | 30.84 | +1.66 | $37,807 | |||
| Conservative | Brian Guillou | 2,368 | 11.09 | -1.94 | $4,295 | |||
| Total valid votes | 21,361 | 100.00 | – | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 209 | 0.97 | +0.42 | |||||
| Turnout | 21,570 | 47.52 | +0.15 | |||||
| Registered voters | 45,389 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +1.55 | ||||||
| Source: Elections BC[12] | ||||||||
| 2009 British Columbia general election: Westside-Kelowna | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | Expenditures | ||||
| Liberal | Ben Stewart | 10,334 | 53.33 | $95,251 | ||||
| New Democratic | Tish Lakes | 5,656 | 29.19 | $26,122 | ||||
| Conservative | Peter Neville | 1,772 | 9.14 | $9,705 | ||||
| Green | Robin McKim | 1,617 | 8.34 | $1,075 | ||||
| Total valid votes | 19,379 | 99.45 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 107 | 0.55 | ||||||
| Turnout | 19,486 | 47.35 | ||||||
| Registered voters | 41,155 | |||||||
| Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | ||
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| Preceded by | Constituency represented by the premier of British Columbia 2013–2017 |
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