Kelowna

Canadian Federal Election
Riding-by-Riding Prediction
Kelowna

Current Prediction:

Riding Profile:
Candidates:

Liberal Party:
	Joe Leask
Canadian Alliance:
	Werner Schmidt
Progressive Conservative Party:
	Doug Mallo
New Democratic Party:
	John Powell
Canadian Action Party:
	Jack Peach

Incumbent:

Werner Schmidt

Previous Result:

	22.40%
	16.79%
	50.01%
	7.60%

Surrounding Ridings:

Misc:

Population:
Avg Household Income
Language (Home)
English
French

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	12/10/00	Mike Parkes	Email: mdparkes@msn.com
Kelowna is as right-wing a riding can get. Werner Schmidt will win again.
	24/10/00	randy gorman	Email:michel@netcom.ca
MR SCHMIDT WILL PROBABLY WIN THIS SEAT AGAIN,HOWEVER HE HAS BEEN A POOR PERFORMER IN THE HOUSE. IF THE LIBERALS CAN RUN A CANDIDATE WITH LOCAL APPEAL THIS RIDING COULD CHANGE. I,M ORIGINALLY FROM EASTERN CANADA,HOWEVER I FIND IT IRONIC WHEN I HEAR THE OLD SLOGAN THE WEST OR BC WANTS IN, HOW CAN GET YOU ANY REAL SAY IF YOU ALWAYS SEND OPPOSITION MP'S TO OTTAWA.HAVING A GOV'T MP SITTING IN CABINET OR CAUCUS EXPRESSING CONCERNS FROM YOUR OWN AREA AND GETTING DONE WHAT IS NEEDED IS IN MY ESTIMATION MORE IMPORTANT. JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT COME ELECTION DAY.
	26/10/00	CM	EMAIL: mayor21@london.com
VERY conservative riding. Should be an easy win for the Alliance.
	29/10/00	A.S.	Email:adma@interlog.com
Notoriously conservative as Kelowna is, Schmidt was only 7 1/2 votes into an absolute majority last time out; but that was not due to greater "urbanity" or to ill-advised Hitler quotes so much as to the game decision by former PC MP Al Horning to try for a comeback. It earned him back one of only 2 PC BC deposits, and the result was a good, solid 2/3 united-right total. Read into that what you may.
	15/11/00	Christopher J. Currie	Email:8cjc1@qlink.queensu.ca
I find it ironic (though not at all surprising) that no one suggested Werner Schmidt for the leadership of the CA. He does have experience as a party leader, after all -- in a previous incarnation, he was the leader of the Alberta Social Credit party for the 1975 Provincial Election, and it was under his stewardship that the mighty Aberhart/Manning machine collapsed to 4 seats, his own not being one of them. I think his promise to eliminate subsidies to the oil and farm sectors might have limited his popularity, or something. (Interestingly, I've recently discovered that a "W. Schmidt" also ran for the Saskatchewan Social Credit Party in the 1960 election, losing badly ... you don't suppose ... ?). More recently, his Hitler quotes (whatever his intentions were), and suggestions that the "homeless problem" doesn't really exist, seem to have confirmed his position on the fringe of the party. This is rural BC, though, and the good people of this riding will no-doubt provide Mr. Schmidt with another four years in which to embarrass his party even further.
	17/11/00	www.castanet.net/news/
Candidates Neck & Neck We've got ourselves a horse race in Kelowna. If the Castanet poll that ran all week is any indication, incumbent MP Werner Schmidt and Liberal hopeful Joe Leask are virtually neck and neck going into the last week of campaigning for the federal election. Between November 13 and 17, visitors to the site were asked who they wanted to represent them. A total of 520 votes were cast and of those 202 were in support of Schmidt, while Leask collected 200. NDP's John Powell received 57 votes, Jack Peach of the Canadian Action party tallied up 35 and Conservative Doug Mallo received 26. "Polls are very interesting to us, but we are going to wait for the final one," said Schmidt's campaign manager Dave Roseberry. "We're glad that there's interest out there and it's an indication that things are fevering up." Meanwhile Leask noted that the Liberals are leading in the national polls. "It's time for the people of Kelowna to have a voice on the government side of the house," he said.

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