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Cowichan-Alberni

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Cowichan-Alberni was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It appeared in the 1894 general election only. It was formed by combining the Alberni riding and parts of the older Cowichan riding. Alberni riding and Cowichan riding were restored for the 1898 election.

Demographics

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Population, 1986
Population change, 1903–1986
Area (km2)
Population density (people per km2)

Political geography

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Notable elections

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First Nations

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Notable MLAs

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Electoral history

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Note: Winners in each election are in bold.

7th 1894 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Government Theodore Davie Accl. - % unknown
Government James Mitchell Mutter Accl. - % unknown
Total valid votes - - %
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
8th 1898 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Government James Dunsmuir2 297 64.71% unknown
Opposition William James McAllan 162 35.29% unknown
Total valid votes 459 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %

2. Later 14th Premier of British Columbia 1900-1902

9th 1900 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Government Joseph McPhee3 279 45.22% unknown
Opposition Lewis Alfred Mounce 338 54.78% unknown
Total valid votes 188 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %

3. McPhee was nominated as a Liberal candidate in opposition to Mounce who campaigned as a Conservative Party supporter. According to the Nanaimo Herald both were anti-Martin but the Vancouver Province and Victoria Times listed both as Government.

10th 1903 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Conservative Robert Grant 361 53.24% unknown
  Liberal Frederick McBain Young 317 46.76% unknown
Total valid votes 678 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
11th British Columbia election, 1907
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Liberal John Bertram Bennett 292 43.98% unknown
Conservative Robert Grant 372 56.02% unknown
Total valid votes 664 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
12th British Columbia election, 1909
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Socialist James Cartwright 206 20.96% unknown
Independent Conservative Henry Essen Young 154 15.67%
  Liberal James McKelvey Forrest 172 17.50% unknown
Conservative Michael Manson 451 45.88% unknown
Total valid votes 983 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
13th British Columbia election, 1912
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Socialist Wallis Walter Lefeaux 355 33.84% unknown
Conservative Michael Manson 694 66.16% unknown
Total valid votes 1,049 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
14th British Columbia election, 1916
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Conservative Michael Manson 882 41.47% unknown
Socialist William Arthur Pritchard 246 11.57% unknown
  Liberal Hugh Stewart 916 43.07% unknown
Social Democratic George Edgar Winkler 83 3.90%
Total valid votes 812 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
15th British Columbia election, 1920
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Conservative William Edward Anderson 1,233 29.90% unknown
Independent Liberal William Wallace Burns McInnes 731 17.73%
  Peoples Party (Farmer-Labour) Thomas Menzies 1,354 32.83% unknown
  Liberal Patrick Daly 806 19.54% unknown
Total valid votes 4,124 100.00%
Total rejected ballots
Turnout %
16th British Columbia election, 1924
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Conservative William Duncan 815 28.41%
Provincial George Every-Clayton 793 27.64%
Independent Liberal Paul Phillips Harrison 1,261 43.95%
Total valid votes 2,869 100.00%
1928 British Columbia general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Conservative George Kerr McNaughton 2,058 53.85
Liberal John William McKenzie 1,497 39.17
Independent Labour William Law 267 6.99
Total valid votes 3,822 100.00
Total rejected ballots 70
18th British Columbia election, 1933
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Harold Tuttle Allen 1,590 36.03% unknown
Independent Co-operative Commonwealth George Robert Bates 276 6.25% unknown
  Liberal Laurence Arnold Hanna 2,204 49.94% unknown
United Front (Workers and Farmers) Hugh Gray Russell 259 5.87%
  Independent Ernest Richard Tarling 84 1.90% unknown
Total valid votes 4,413 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 34
Turnout %
19th British Columbia election, 1937
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Colin Cameron 2,336 44.83% unknown
  Liberal Laurence Arnold Hanna 1,876 36.00% unknown
Conservative Gordon Noel Money 999 19.17% unknown
Total valid votes 5,211 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 80
Turnout %
20th British Columbia election, 1941
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Colin Cameron 3,126 45.31% unknown
  Liberal William Edward Mantle 2,158 31.28% unknown
Conservative Edward Roger Gibson Richardson 1,615 23.41% unknown
Total valid votes 6,899 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 166
Turnout %
21st British Columbia election, 1945
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Colin Cameron 3,362 44.69% unknown
Labor-Progressive Thomas McEwen 729 9.69% unknown
Coalition Herbert John Welch 3,432 45.62% unknown
Total valid votes 7,523 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 161
Turnout %
22nd British Columbia election, 1949
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Colin Cameron 5,238 40.81% unknown
Coalition Herbert John Welch 7,596 59.19% unknown
Total valid votes 12,834 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 435
Turnout %
23rd British Columbia election, 1952 1
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
% ±%
  Progressive Conservative W. Bruce Gordon 1,868 13.58% -- --.--% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William Campbell Moore 5,369 39.03% 7,098 57.67% unknown
Social Credit League Cyril Hugh Poole 2,987 21.71%
  Liberal Herbert John Welch 3,532 25.68% 5,210 42.33% unknown
Total valid votes 13,756 100.00% 12,308 %
Total rejected ballots 446
Turnout 77.94%
1(Preferential ballot: 1st and 3rd counts of three shown only)
24th British Columbia election, 1953 2
Party Candidate Votes
1st count
% Votes
final count
% ±%
  Liberal John Wesley Baikie 2,944 21.71% - -.-% unknown
  Labour Progressive Party John Higgin 357 2.63% - -.-% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. William Campbell Moore 5,462 40.28% 6,717 53.83% unknown
Social Credit League Cyril Hugh Poole 4,420 32.59% 5,762 46.17%
  Progressive Conservative Nugent Watson Spinks 378 2.79% -- --.--% unknown
Total valid votes 13,561 100.00% 12,479 %
Total rejected ballots 717
Turnout 77.94%
2Preferential ballot: 1st and 4th counts of four shown only)
25th British Columbia election, 1956
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Robert John Campbell 4,916 41.63% unknown
  Liberal Robert George McPhee 2,339 19.81% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Cyril Newman 4,555 38.57% unknown
Total valid votes 11,810 100.00%
Total valid votes 11,810 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 183
Turnout %
26th British Columbia election, 1960
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Liberal William Wallace Baikie 2,759 17.47% unknown
Social Credit Daniel Robert John Campbell 6,100 38.63% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Alan Gray 653 4.14% unknown
Communist John Higgin 207 1.31% unknown
  Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Frederick Charles Wood 6,072 38.45% unknown
Total valid votes 15,791 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 248
Turnout %
27th British Columbia election, 1963
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Robert John Campbell 6,598 42.38% unknown
  Liberal David Alexander Elrix 1,259 8.09% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Duncan McIntyre Fraser 1,475 9.47% unknown
New Democratic Frederick Sidney Williams 6,238 40.06% unknown
Total valid votes 15,570 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 150
Turnout %
28th British Columbia election, 1966
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Robert John Campbell 5,449 49.39% unknown
  Liberal Joseph J. Cvetkovich 1,276 11.57% unknown
New Democratic Neville Shanks 4,308 39.05% unknown
Total valid votes 11,033 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 104
Turnout %
29th British Columbia election, 1969
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Robert John Campbell 7,910 45.61% unknown
  Liberal Olga Ruth Henrietta Chown 2,303 13.28% unknown
New Democratic Harry Harris 7,131 41.12% unknown
Total valid votes 17,344 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 194
Turnout %
30th British Columbia election, 1972
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Robert John Campbell 6,376 29.00% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Lawrence Foort 1,166 5.30% unknown
New Democratic Karen Elizabeth Sanford 12,540 57.40% unknown
  Liberal Patrick Melvin Thompson 1,903 8.66% unknown
Total valid votes 21,985 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 135
Turnout %
31st British Columbia election, 1975
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Daniel Edgard Hanuse 10,171 38.90% unknown
  Liberal Norman L. McLaren 1,381 5.28% unknown
New Democratic Karen Elizabeth Sanford 10,650 40.73% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Victor Albert Stephens 3,906 15.09% unknown
Total valid votes 26,148 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 454
Turnout %
32nd British Columbia election, 1979
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Delbert Keith Doll 9,390 42.57% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Eric Harry Kellow 2,251 10.20% unknown
New Democratic Karen Elizabeth Sanford 10,420 47.23% unknown
Total valid votes 22,061 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 315
Turnout %
33rd British Columbia election, 1983
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
  Liberal Thomas John Finnie 502 1.71% unknown
Western Canada Concept Allan Wayne Griffiths 1,104 3.75% unknown
New Democratic Karen Elizabeth Sanford 13,719 46.58% unknown
Social Credit George Herbert Parke Smith 13,422 45.57% unknown
  Independent Victor Albert Stephens 705 2.39% unknown
Total valid votes 29,452 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 258
Turnout %
44th British Columbia election, 1986
Party Candidate Votes % ± Expenditures
Social Credit Stanley Brian Hagen 15,833 51.15
New Democratic Karen Elizabeth Sanford 13,562 43.82% unknown
  Liberal John G. (Jack) Setter 985 3.18% unknown
  Progressive Conservative Terry Ian 573 1.85% unknown
Total valid votes 30,953 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 276
Turnout %

Sources

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Elections BC historical returns