Cowichan-Alberni

Last updated September 19, 2023

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

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

Political geography

Notable elections

First Nations

Notable MLAs

Electoral history

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 Dunsmuir ²	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 McPhee ³	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	%
	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%

v t e 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
	Labour 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

Elections BC historical returns

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