What started out appearing to be a tight race in the riding of Okanagan Lake West-South Kelowna became a decisive win for incumbent Conservative MP Dan Albas.

Early in the evening on April 28, Liberal candidate Juliette Sicotte was ahead in the count, but as the night continued, support for Albas surged.

By 7:45 a.m the following morning, with more than 99 per cent of the ballots counted, Albas had 32,460 votes, or 51.1 per cent support.

Sicotte was second, with 27,938 ballots, had 43.9 per cent support.

"I just want to say thank you to the voters," Albas told Black Press Media when it became clear he would win. "I also want to say thank you to my competitors because we live in a democracy and it wouldn't be democracy without a choice, and I believe that every single one of the other candidates felt that they were putting themselves forward for the right reasons."

Albas, who is returning to Parliament for a fifth term, singled out the hard work of his campaign team.

"(Knocking) on tens of thousands of doors and handing out signs working hard at this election. And I think tonight feels good, but there's a lot of work ahead and, being a member of Parliament's an honour. I'll try to represent everyone as best I can."

The remaining four candidates had significantly lower levels of support.

New Democrat Harpreet Badohal had 2,148 votes or 3.4 per cent support, Green candidate Louise Lecouffe had 634 votes or 1.0 per cent support, People香蕉视频直播檚 Party of Canada candidate had 302 votes or 0.5 per cent support and Gary Suddard with the Canadian Future Party had 93 votes, representing 0.1 per cent support.

With 218 of 220 polls reporting, a total of 63,575 of 89,399 ballots had been counted. This represented 71.11 per cent of eligible electors.

Boundaries for the riding were re-drawn out of the former Central Okanagan-Similkameen-Nicola and Kelowna-Lake Country ridings. 

In the last election, voters leaned to the Conservatives. The redistributed results from the 2021 federal election had 48.35 per cent support for the Conservatives, 23.22 per cent support for the Liberals, 18.89 per cent support for the New Democrats, 6.79 per cent supporting the People香蕉视频直播檚 Party of Canada and 2.75 per cent supporting the Green Party of Canada.

Throughout the history of the region, communities in the area have tended to elect right-of-centre candidates to represent them in the House of Commons. The most recent example was in the 1988 federal election when Jack Whittaker of the New Democratic Party was elected to represent the former riding of Okanagan-Similkameen-Merritt.

Nationally, Canadians elected 343 Members of Parliament in the federal election. 

The Liberal Party of Canada has formed the government since 2015, first with a majority and then with two minority governments. 

In 2019 and 2021, the Conservatives received a greater share of the popular vote across Canada, but the Liberals won more seats in the House of Commons.