What is "okanagan--similkameen"

''This article is for the electoral district. For the regional district by this name, see the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen.

Okanagan—Similkameen was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1988.

The riding was created in 1976 from parts of Fraser Valley East, Kamloops—Cariboo and Okanagan Boundary ridings.

It consisted of:

• the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen
• part of the Regional District of Central Okanagan lying west of the westerly boundaries of Electoral Area A and Electoral Area I
• part of the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary lying west of the westerly boundary of Electoral Area B
• part of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District lying east of the easterly boundary of Electoral Area I and south of the southerly boundaries of Electoral Area J and Electoral Area L.