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Canada · Federal election review

Merritt: congratulations to the MPs elected in 2025

Merritt’s main federal ridings: elected MPs, parties, returning incumbents, full candidate votes and the margins that decided the April 28, 2025 election.

By West Coast News · Original reporting from Elections Canada official results

Federal election held April 28, 2025 · Official results
Compiled October 25, 2026. This is a dated election review, not election-night coverage or a statement of current House membership.

West Coast News congratulates the successful federal candidates in the ridings serving Merritt and thanks everyone who stood for office and voted. The local winners were Frank Caputo (Conservative). Below are the official results, including the winning margins and whether each winner was an incumbent.

Back to Townline Merritt · National results and province-by-province comparison

Clear win · Re-elected MP

Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola

West Coast News congratulates Frank Caputo (Conservative) on re-election as the MP for Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola in the April 28, 2025 federal election.

Frank Caputo received 32,008 votes (51.5%), finishing 7,047 votes (11.35 percentage points) ahead of Iain Currie (Liberal).

Kamloops—Thompson—Nicola: all candidates and official votes
CandidatePartyVotesShareResult
Frank CaputoConservative32,00851.5%Re-elected MP
Iain CurrieLiberal24,96140.2%Not elected
Miguel GodauNDP3,6815.9%Not elected
Jenna LindleyGreen Party9361.5%Not elected
Chris EnnsPeople's Party - PPC5160.8%Not elected

Turnout: 69.3% · Ballots cast: 62,422 · Valid votes: 62,102 · Rejected ballots: 320.

See which provinces favoured the Liberals and Conservatives, and compare all 343 ridings →

Sources and how to read the results

Candidate votes, affiliations and incumbent markers come from Elections Canada’s official Table 12; turnout, valid votes and rejected ballots come from Table 11. National and province totals below are calculated from that same candidate table so the figures use one consistent snapshot. The asterisk marker for incumbents is defined by Elections Canada. “Not an incumbent” does not mean a person has never held another elected office.

Winner minus runner-up votes; percentage-point margin uses all valid riding votes. Tight finish: under 5 points; decisive win: at least 20 points. These are editorial descriptions, not Elections Canada classifications. “Landslide” has no official threshold here; we use exact margins and “decisive win” instead. Candidate percentages can differ slightly from sums because of rounding.

Each city edition covers its main federal ridings, which can cross municipal boundaries. Riding-wide results are not city-only vote totals. Use Elections Canada’s address lookup to find your own riding. Later by-elections, party changes and court decisions are outside these April 2025 results.

Download all 1,959 candidate results (CSV) · Download the complete results package (JSON) · Original Elections Canada candidate CSV · Original Elections Canada turnout CSV