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Cowichan-Newcastle was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared for the 1924 provincial election, [1] and was later redistributed into Cowichan-Malahat and Nanaimo for the 1966 election. [2]

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MLAs elected

ParliamentTermMLA
16th 1924–1928 Cyril Francis Davie
17th 1928–1933
18th 1933–1937 Hugh George Egioke Savage
19th 1937–1941 Samuel Guthrie
20th 1941–1945
21st 1945–1949
22nd 1949–1952 Andrew Mowatt Whisker
23rd 1952–1953 Robert Martin Strachan
24th 1953–1956
25th 1956–1960
26th 1960–1963
27th 1963–1966

Electoral history

Elections

1924 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Cyril Francis Davie 1,24631.26–
Labour Samuel Guthrie 1,13228.40–
Provincial Kenneth Forrest Duncan 87021.83–
Liberal Wymond Wolverton Walkem 73818.51–
Total valid votes3,986100.00 
Source(s)
An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. p. 151. ISBN   0-7718-8677-2.
1928 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Conservative Cyril Francis Davie 2,36058.1726.91
Independent Labour Samuel Guthrie 1,60739.6111.21
Independent St. George Gray902.22New
Total valid votes4,057100.00 
Total rejected ballots1082.59 
Source(s)
An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. p. 161. ISBN   0-7718-8677-2.
1933 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%
Oxford Group Hugh George Egioke Savage 1,65540.88
Co-operative Commonwealth Samuel Guthrie 1,28831.82
Independent Conservative Cyril Francis Davie 58514.45
Liberal David Ramsay52012.85
Total valid votes4,048 100.00
Total rejected ballots6
Source(s)
An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. p. 175. ISBN   0-7718-8677-2.
1937 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Samuel Guthrie 1,56033.581.76
Liberal Arnold Christmas Flett1,22426.3513.50
Independent Hugh George Egioke Savage 1,22226.31-14.57
Conservative Clement Pemberton Deykin63913.76Returned
Total valid votes4,645100.00 
Total rejected ballots420.90 
Source(s)
An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. p. 185. ISBN   0-7718-8677-2.
1941 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Samuel Guthrie 2,75747.2213.64
Liberal Arnold Christmas Flett1,73929.783.43
Conservative Edmund William Neel1,34323.009.24
Total valid votes5,839100.00 
Total rejected ballots611.03 
Source(s)
An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. p. 195. ISBN   0-7718-8677-2.
1945 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Samuel Guthrie 3,76855.338.11
Conservative Macgregor Fullarton Macintosh 3,04244.6721.67
Total valid votes6,810100.00 
Total rejected ballots680.99 
Source(s)
An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. p. 205. ISBN   0-7718-8677-2.
1949 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Coalition Andrew Mowatt Whisker 5,50556.19New
Co-operative Commonwealth Samuel Guthrie 4,19442.818.11
Independent Thomas James Boyles600.61New
Union of Electors Norman Webster Joyce380.39New
Total valid votes9,797100.00 
Total rejected ballots2172.17 
Source(s)
An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. p. 215. ISBN   0-7718-8677-2.
1952 British Columbia general election
Three counts undertaken
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count		%Votes
final count		%
Co-operative Commonwealth Robert Martin Strachan 4,63643.345,69758.36
Liberal Andrew Mowatt Whisker 2,71125.354,06441.64
Social Credit William Hindle Bryant1,88617.63
Conservative James Chesterfield Wragg1,46313.68
Total valid votes10,696100.009,761 91.26
Total rejected/exhausted ballots3343.03935 8.74
[3]
1953 British Columbia general election
Five counts undertaken
PartyCandidateVotes
1st count		%Votes
final count		%
Co-operative Commonwealth Robert Martin Strachan 4,51743.735,34557.95
Social Credit Percy Hawkings2,68626.003,87842.05
Liberal Andrew Mowatt Whisker 2,33022.56
Progressive Conservative James Chesterfield Wragg5104.94
Labor-Progressive Myrtle Woodward Bergren1681.63
Independent William Hindle Bryant1181.14
Total valid votes10,329100.009,223 89.29
Total rejected/exhausted ballots5004.621,106 10.71
[4]
1956 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Robert Martin Strachan 5,01551.187.45
Social Credit Charles William Parker 3,17332.386.38
Liberal Robert James Harvey1,61116.44-6.12
Total valid votes9,799100.00 
Total rejected ballots910.92 
[5]
1960 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Co-operative Commonwealth Robert Martin Strachan 6,26158.687.50
Social Credit Hazel Viola Fee3,03328.43-3.95
Progressive Conservative John Joseph Kerrone1,20611.30Returned
Communist Hjalmar Peter Bergren1701.59New
Total valid votes10,670100.00 
Total rejected ballots1151.07 
[6]
1963 British Columbia general election
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Robert Martin Strachan 5,42250.47-8.21
Social Credit Donald Christopher Morton3,57633.294.86
Liberal George Wilfrid Whittaker9048.42Returned
Progressive Conservative Cyril Craig8407.82-3.48
Total valid votes10,742100.00 
Total rejected ballots920.85 
[7]

Timelines (1924-1963)

Graph of Cowichan-Newcastle election results by share of votes, 1924–1963. First-preference results are noted for the 1952 and 1953 elections.

Further reading

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