British Columbia electoral district | |
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Defunct federal electoral district | |
Legislature | House of Commons |
District created | 1968 |
District abolished | 1979 |
First contested | 1968 |
Last contested | 1974 |
Coast Chilcotin was a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. It was located in the province of British Columbia.
The riding spanned the southern Coast Mountains and included the Central Coast through Queen Charlotte Strait and Johnstone Strait to the Sunshine Coast and Howe Sound, as well as the Chilcotin Plateau and from the Cariboo down to Howe Sound via Lillooet.
Coast Chilcotin was created in 1966 and incorporated components of these other ridings:
The most significant components were those from Comox—Alberni (the Sunshine Coast), Cariboo and Coast—Capilano. Coast Chilcotin was first used in the Canadian federal election of 1968. It was abolished in 1976 when it was redistributed between:
Elections Canada webpage on Coast Chilcotin