Cowichan-Malahat

Cowichan-Malahat was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia. It first appeared in the general election of 1966. In the 1991 general election, it was succeeded by Cowichan-Ladysmith and Malahat-Juan de Fuca.

MLAs elected

Parliament	Term	MLA
28th	1966–1969		Robert Martin Strachan
29th	1969–1972
30th	1972–1975
31st	1975–1979		Barbara Wallace
32nd	1979–1983
33rd	1983–1986
34th	1986–1991		Graham Bruce

Election results

Elections

1966 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Robert Martin Strachan	5,646	52.08	–
	Social Credit	Patrick James Rogers	4,412	40.70	–
	Liberal	Joseph Haddock	783	7.22	–
Total valid votes			10,841	100.00
Total rejected ballots			81	0.74

1969 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Robert Martin Strachan	7,411	47.78	-4.30
	Social Credit	Charles McGregor Ennals	7,107	45.82	5.12
	Liberal	James Robert Bigsby	916	5.91	-1.31
	Independent	Kenneth Leslie Craig Hassenen	76	0.49	New
Total valid votes			15,510	100.00
Total rejected ballots			127	0.81

1972 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Robert Martin Strachan	10,672	58.51	10.73
	Social Credit	Kathleen Grouhel	4,555	24.97	-20.85
	Progressive Conservative	GJames William Quaife	2,101	11.52	New
	Liberal	Daniel R. Clemmens	842	4.62	-1.29
	Independent	Kenneth Leslie Craig Hassenen	70	0.38	-0.11
Total valid votes			18,240	100.00
Total rejected ballots			203	1.10

1975 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Barbara Wallace	10,245	47.73	-10.78
	Social Credit	Charles McGregor Ennals	9,066	42.24	17.27
	Liberal	Jevington Blair Tothill	1,595	7.43	2.81
	Independent	Andrew Basil Bigg	559	2.60	2.22
Total valid votes			21,465	100.00
Total rejected ballots			188	0.87

1979 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Barbara Wallace	9,839	52.62	4.89
	Social Credit	Henry Rex Hollett	7,746	41.43	-0.81
	Progressive Conservative	Kenneth Paskin	1,113	5.95	Returned
Total valid votes			18,698	100.00
Total rejected ballots			180	0.95

1983 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	New Democratic	Barbara Wallace	11,655	51.00	-1.62
	Social Credit	Graham Bruce	10,143	44.38	2.95
	Western Canada Concept	James Ivan Turnbull	609	2.67	New
	Liberal	Irwin Wield (Bill) Steele	345	1.51	Returned
	Independent	Louis James Lesosky	101	0.44	New
Total valid votes			22,853	100.00
Total rejected ballots			245	1.06

1986 British Columbia general election
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Social Credit	Graham Bruce	11,744	50.96	6.58
	New Democratic	Carolyn Judith Askew	10,442	45.31	-5.69
	Liberal	Paul Olthof	860	3.73	2.22
Total valid votes			23,046	100.00
Total rejected ballots			317	1.36

Timeline (1966-1986)

Graph of Cowichan-Malahat election results by share of votes, 1966–1986.

Further reading

• An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 (PDF). Victoria: Elections British Columbia. 1988. ISBN 0-7718-8677-2.