West Kootenay-Boundary

West Kootenay-Boundary was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada from 2001 to 2009.

The seat combined the Rossland/Trail/Castlegar area (the putative West Kootenay component) that had previously been in Rossland-Trail with the Boundary Country, which had been in the Okanagan-Boundary riding (1991–1996) and prior to that the Boundary-Similkameen riding.

For other historical and current ridings in the Kootenay and Boundary Countries please see Kootenay (electoral districts).

Demographics

Population, 2001	44,794
Population Change, 1996–2001	-2.6%
Area (km²)	9,926
Pop. Density (people per km²)	4.5

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Katrine Conroy. She was first elected in 2005. She represents the New Democratic Party of British Columbia.

Election results

B.C. General Election 2005 West Kootenay-Boundary
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	NDP	Katrine Conroy	13,318	60.26%		$51,387
	Liberal	Pam Lewin	6,180	27.96%		$97,658
	Green	Donald Pharand	1,561	7.06%	–	$1,879
	Conservative	Barry Edward Chilton	802	3.63%		$1,170
	No Affiliation	Glen David Millar	180	0.81%		$100
	Bloc	A.J. van Leur	59	0.27%		$100
Total valid votes			22,100
Total rejected ballots			123	0.56%
Turnout			22,223	68.6%

B.C. General Election 2001: West Kootenay-Boundary
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Liberal	Sandy Santori	10,784	49.74%		$48,035
	NDP	Ed Conroy	6,915	31.89%		$26,686
	Green	Patricia Pépé	2,004	9.24%	–	$961
	Unity	Mark McLaren	1,139	5.25%		$3,582
	Marijuana	Brian Taylor	840	3.88%		$100
Total valid votes			21,682	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			71	0.33%
Turnout			21,753	74.42%

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British Columbia provincial electoral districts (2001–2009)

North / Central	Bulkley Valley-Stikine Cariboo North Cariboo South North Coast Peace River North Peace River South Prince George-Mount Robson Prince George North Prince George-Omineca Skeena

Southern Interior	Columbia River-Revelstoke East Kootenay Kamloops Kamloops-North Thompson Kelowna-Lake Country Kelowna-Mission Nelson-Creston Okanagan-Westside Okanagan-Vernon Penticton-Okanagan Valley Shuswap West Kootenay-Boundary Yale-Lillooet

Fraser Valley / South LM	Abbotsford-Clayburn Abbotsford-Mount Lehman Chilliwack-Kent Chilliwack-Sumas Delta North Delta South Fort Langley-Aldergrove Langley Maple Ridge-Mission Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows Richmond Centre Richmond East Richmond-Steveston Surrey-Cloverdale Surrey-Green Timbers Surrey-Newton Surrey-Panorama Ridge Surrey-Tynehead Surrey-Whalley Surrey-White Rock

Vancouver / North LM	Burnaby-Edmonds Burnaby North Burnaby-Willingdon Burquitlam Coquitlam-Maillardville New Westminster North Vancouver-Lonsdale North Vancouver-Seymour Port Coquitlam-Burke Mountain Port Moody-Westwood Vancouver-Burrard Vancouver-Fairview Vancouver-Fraserview Vancouver-Hastings Vancouver-Kensington Vancouver-Kingsway Vancouver-Langara Vancouver-Mount Pleasant Vancouver-Point Grey Vancouver-Quilchena West Vancouver-Capilano West Vancouver-Garibaldi

Vancouver Island / South Coast	Alberni-Qualicum Comox Valley Cowichan-Ladysmith Esquimalt-Metchosin Malahat-Juan de Fuca Nanaimo Nanaimo-Parksville North Island Oak Bay-Gordon Head Powell River-Sunshine Coast Saanich North and the Islands Saanich South Victoria-Beacon Hill Victoria-Hillside

See also:	1999 electoral redistribution 2001 general election 2005 general election 2008 electoral redistribution Defunct districts

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