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By Pete McIntyre

Federal election

Okanagan and other B.C. regional election results

Sep 20, 2021 | 8:30 PM

UPDATE: 9:15 p.m.

The Okanagan will stay ‘Tory Blue’ with new mandates for Mel Arnold in North Okanagan-Shuswap with his third term, Tracy Gray re-elected to her second term in Kelowna-Lake Country and Dan Albas to his fourth term in Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola.

Kelowna-Lake Country results (Image credit: The Canadian Press)

Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola results (Image credit: The Canadian Press)

South Okanagan-West Kootenay has incumbent Richard Cannings of the NDP defeated Conservative Helena Konanz.

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UPDATE:

Preliminary figures is showing that Kelowna Lake Country riding will stay with the Conservatives.

As of 7:45, the riding is one of twelve projected ridings in B.C. by The Canadian Press

There are three Conservative and three NDP wins as well as six Liberal seats projected

Kelowna-Lake Country is the only Okanagan riding that has a projection as of 7:45, with Tracy gray exepcted to win her second term

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We are following the results of the federal ridings in our region including Kelowna-Lake Country where Conservative Tracy Gray is looking to win a second term, facing four challengers.

In the October 2019 election, Gray, a former business owner and Kelowna city councillor, defeated Liberal incumbent MP Stephen Fuhr by 8,870 votes.

Dan Albas of the Conservatives is looking to win his fourth term in the Central Okanagan -Similkameen-Nicola riding. He won by almost 15,000 votes over the Liberal candidate in 2019.

Albas, a martial arts instructor, is up against four challengers in the riding.

Further south, Richard Cannings of the New Democrats is seeking a third term as the MP for South Okanagan-West Kootenay after winning over Conservative candidate Helena Konanz by about 700 votes two years ago.

And in the Kamloops area, veteran Conservative MP Cathy MacLeod has retired from politics and Frank Caputo is looking to continue the party’s winning ways in the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding.