Riding profile

Salmon Arm-Shuswap

Provincial riding — BC · Interior

The question

Salmon Arm-Shuswap: a safe seat for the Conservatives?

Current forecast

Con

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
26.2
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Con 52.8%
  • NDP 26.6%
  • GP 10.1%
  • CentreBC 4.3%
  • OneBC 3.8%
  • OTH 2.4%

Watch list

The tightest races

Smallest projected margin. Open one for the numbers.

  1. Surrey-FleetwoodNDP58 %2.0 pt margin
  2. Cowichan ValleyCon54 %2.0 pt margin
  3. Vancouver-LangaraCon62 %2.1 pt margin

In context

How this riding stacks up

Con NDP GP CentreBC
HereSalmon Arm-Shuswap 52.8%26.6%10.1%4.3%
Provincial averageBritish Columbia 42.4% +10.4 39.5% −12.9 9.9% +0.1 3.2% +1.1

Provincial averages computed across the 93 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Editorial read

Salmon Arm-Shuswap, a mixed riding in British Columbia, elected a member with the Conservatives in the previous cycle, with a 22-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Conservatives ahead at 53% vote share, against 27% for the NDP, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

David Williams

Sits with Con

Parliament
43th

Previous election · 2024

Won by
Con
Margin
21.7 pts
Turnout
61.4%
Margin shift vs current projection
+4.6 pts

Detailed result · BC 2024

Candidates and votes

Candidate Party Votes % Occupation
David L. Williams Elected Con — 52.1 —
Sylvia Lindgren NDP — 30.4 —
Jed Wiebe GP — 7.1 —
Greg McCune OTH — — —
Sherry Roy OTH — — —
Last model run
Cycle
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