West Kootenay-Boundary was a provincial

electoral district An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other poli ...

for the

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia is the deliberative assembly of the Parliament of British Columbia, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The Legislative Assembly meets in Victoria. Members are elected from provincial ...

, 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 Rossland-Trail was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia centred on the towns of Rossland and Trail, in the West Kootenay. The riding first appeared in the 1924 election as the result of a redistr ...

with the

Boundary Country The Boundary Country is a historical designation for a district in southern British Columbia lying, as its name suggests, along the boundary between Canada and the United States. It lies to the east of the southern Okanagan Valley and to the west ...

, which had been in the

Okanagan-Boundary Okanagan-Boundary was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia spanning the area from the Similkameen towns of Kaleden and Keremeos to Grand Forks and Christina Lake, and including the southern Okanagan towns o ...

riding (1991–1996) and prior to that the

Boundary-Similkameen Boundary-Similkameen is a provincial riding formed in 2008. It includes the populations of Penticton-Okanagan Valley, West Kootenay-Boundary and Yale-Lillooet. The riding's name corresponds to that of a former riding in the same area, with si ...

riding. For other historical and current ridings in the Kootenay and Boundary Countries please see

Kootenay (electoral districts) {{short description, None Kootenay is a name found in various provincial and federal electoral districts in the Canadian province of British Columbia. This page lists ridings with the name Kootenay in them, and also other ridings within the Koote ...

Demographics

Geography

History

Member of Legislative Assembly

Its MLA is Katrine Conroy, who was first elected in 2005 and represents the New Democratic Party of British Columbia. She continues to hold the seat after the riding was renamed as

Kootenay West Kootenay West was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1988. This riding was created in 1914 from parts of Kootenay riding. It was abolished in 1987 whe ...

, having won four additional elections.

Election results

, - , NDP , Katrine Conroy , align="right", 13,318 , align="right", 60.26% , align="right", , align="right", $51,387 , - , No Affiliation , Glen David Millar , align="right", 180 , align="right", 0.81% , align="right", , align="right", $100 , - , - , NDP , Ed Conroy , align="right", 6,915 , align="right", 31.89% , align="right", , align="right", $26,686

External links

BC Stats Profile - 2001 (pdf)Results of 2001 election (pdf)2001 ExpendituresWebsite of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia {{BritishColumbia-stub