| 2008 Canadian federal election: Kootenay—Columbia | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Conservative | Jim Abbott | 23,402 | 59.59 | +5.24 | $53,536 | |||
| New Democratic | Leon R. Pendleton | 8,892 | 22.64 | -3.23 | ||||
| Green | Ralph Moore | 3,933 | 10.01 | +3.91 | $1,084 | |||
| Liberal | Betty Aitchison | 3,044 | 7.75 | -5.98 | $1,960 | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 39,271 | 100.0 | $99,498 | |||||
| Total rejected ballots | 131 | 0.3 | ||||||
| Turnout | 39,402 | 59.76 | ||||||
| Conservative hold | Swing | +4.24 | ||||||
