Riding profile

Similkameen--South Okanagan--West Kootenay

Federal riding — BC · Rural · bc interior

The question

Similkameen--South Okanagan--West Kootenay: who wins this toss-up?

Editorial read

Similkameen--South Okanagan--West Kootenay, a rural riding in British Columbia, elected a member with the Conservative Party in the previous cycle, with a 7-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Liberal Party ahead at 39% vote share, against 39% for the Conservative Party, and the race could swing. Linguistic profile: 0% francophone, 95% anglophone.

Sitting member

Helena Konanz

Sits with Conservative

Since
2025-04-28
Parliament
45th

Current forecast

Liberal

Toss-up

Probability
58%
Mean margin (pts)
1.9
P(close race)
96%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Liberal 39.0%
  • Conservative 38.5%
  • NDP 9.2%
  • Green 1.5%
  • PPC 1.5%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Liberal Conservative NDP Green
HereSimilkameen--South Okanagan--West Kootenay 39.0%38.5%9.2%1.5%
Provincial averageBritish Columbia 41.9% −2.9 35.8% +2.7 10.6% −1.4 2.6% −1.1
National averageCanada 41.9% −2.9 34.8% +3.7 14.2% −5.0 2.1% −0.6

Provincial averages computed across the 343 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · FED 2025

Won by
Conservative
Margin
6.8 pts
Turnout
71.5%
Margin shift vs current projection
-4.9 pts

Detailed result · FED 2025

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
Helena Konanz Elected Conservative 30,054 44.1 City Councillor
Gloria Morgan Liberal 25,431 37.3 Retired Lawyer
Linda Sankey NDP 11,033 16.2 Executive Director, SOS Brain Injury Society
Philip Mansfield Green 1,044 1.5 Software Engineering Manager
Barry Dewar PPC 654 1.0 Retired

Demographics

Who lives here

Linguistic profile

  • Francophone 0.4%
  • Anglophone 95.4%
  • Non-francophone (other) 4.2%

Data source : Statistics Canada — 2021 Census

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Last model run
Cycle
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