Kelowna, Okanagan and B.C. Interior/regional ridings

Oct 24, 2020 | 8:13 PM Pete McIntyre

10:10 p.m.

The three Kelowna ridings are all being held by the Liberals with Norm Letnick in Kelowna-Lake Country (fourth term), Renee Merrifield, the new candidate in Kelowna-Mission taking over from Steve Thomson, and Ben Stewart winning a second term in Kelowna-West.

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Dan Ashton of Liberals has won a third term in Penticton, while the NDP stole one from the Liberals in Boundary Similkameen with regional district director Roly Russel beating Petra Veintimilla of the Liberals, winning in the riding held by Liberal Linda Larson since 2013.

The two Kamloops ridings with Peter Milobar and Todd Stone both stayed Liberal.

Fraser Nicola has returned to Liberal Jackie Tegart defeating Aaron Sumexheltza of the NDP.

8:55 p.m.

Kelowna West

13 of 113 polls reporting:

421 Ben Stewart

384 Spring Hawes

232 Peter Truch

22 Maggie Mitchell

21 Matt Badura

Kelowna Mission

38 of 114 polls:

Renee Merrified 1531

Krystal Smith 750

Amanda Poon 587

Kelowna Lake Country

24 of 117 polls:

Norm Letnick 861

Justin Kulik 439

John Janmaat 264

Kyle Geronazzo 46

Silverado Socrates 11

Kelowna has been a Liberal stronghold for many years.

In Kelowna-Lake Country, Norm Letnick is seeking a fourth term for the Liberals, Ben Stewart is looking to win his second term in Kelowna-West and business person Renee Merrified is the new Liberal candidate in Kelowna-Mission, taking over for the retiring Steve Thomson.

The Kelowna area ridings are all expected to stay Liberal, but in addition to Vernon-Monashee, there are three other toss up ridings in our region according to 338Canada.

One is Kamloops-North Thompson where Liberal incumbent Peter Milobar is facing a strong challenge from the NDP’s Sadie Hunter.

Boundary-Similkameen is also a toss up in the race to replace the retiring Linda Larson of the Liberals with Liberal Petra Ventimilla and the NDP’s Roly Russell in a tight battle.

Columbia River-Revelstoke is also a tight race according to Canada 338, with incumbent Liberal Doug Clovechok possibly trailing New Democrat Nicole Cherlet.