|align="right"|21.57% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |Progressive Conservative |Hubert Stuart Harrison Smith |align="right"|1,256 |align="right"|9.34% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |Liberal |Joseph M. Barre |align="right"|1,238 |align="right"|9.20% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|13,454 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|301 !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |} |- |Progressive Conservative |James Marshall |align="right"|2,488 |align="right"|18.68% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |Liberal |Arthur Parsons Dawe |align="right"|642 |align="right"|4.82% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|13,322 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|115 !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |} |- |Liberal |Leo Joseph Matte |align="right"|1,274 |align="right"|10.65% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|11,957 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|135 !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |} |- |Liberal |Robert Dickson Knox |align="right"|1,957 |align="right"|10.81% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|18,109 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|205 !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |} |- |Liberal |Roger MacPhail Tait |align="right"|3,917 |align="right"|16.13% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |Progressive Conservative |James Crosland Doak |align="right"|2,188 |align="right"|9.01% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|24,287 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|304 !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |} |- |Progressive Conservative |Derril Thomas Warren |align="right"|6,023 |align="right"|24.44% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |Liberal |John Dyck |align="right"|2,434 |align="right"|9.88% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown } |Independent |Kenneth Leslie Craig Hasanen |align="right"|26 |align="right"|.11% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|26,642 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|113 !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" |align="left" colspan=7|Reason for by-election: Resignation of W.A.C. Bennett on June 5, 1973, upon retirement from politics. |} |- |Liberal |Tom Finkelstein |align="right"|2,072 |align="right"|6.37% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |Progressive Conservative |Alex William Crouch |align="right"|1,712 |align="right"|5.26% |align="right"| |align="right"|unknown |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|32,553 !align="right"|100.00% !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|209 !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|% !align="right"| !align="right"| |- bgcolor="white" !align="right" colspan=7|5 27th Premier of British Columbia. |} Redistribution of the riding following the 1975 election saw adjustments of its boundaries and a new name, Okanagan South, for the 1979 election. External links Sources Elections BC website - historical election data Former provincial electoral districts of British Columbia