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♂ Douglas L. Mowat
aliasDouglas L. Mowat
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 2 1 3
Birth 16 May 1929 → 94 years + 11 months ago
Lived 63 years + 2 months
First mandate 5 May 1983 → 40 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 11 months
Death 11 August 1992 → 31 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 9 months + 26 days after 16 October 1991
Special notes
None
 
Douglas L. Mowat (1929–1992)
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Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Mowat was the first quadriplegic using a wheelchair elected to a Canadian legislature. He was the British Columbia Social Credit MLA for Vancouver-Little Mountain from 1983 to 1991, except from October 3, 1989 to February 14, 1990, when he sat as Independent Social Credit "to spur an 'open and realistic assessment' of [Premier] Vander Zalm's continued leadership."
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 8 5 10 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Arthur R. Cowie  m 
⊖ Grace M. McCarthy  f  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Arthur J. Lee  m 
⊖ Dorothy-Jean O'Donnell  f 
 
Eligible: 55,158 Votes: 82,529 Participation: 74.81% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
33		 British Columbia
5 May 1983
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 35828(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
SC
 2/6 20,400 49.92% +1,457 Loser:
NDP
 18,943 46.36% Jean Swanson

Service: 3 years 5 months 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 55,482 Votes: 82,718 Participation: 74.54% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
34		 British Columbia
22 October 1986
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 35880(F) — 25 Jul 2023 19:03 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
SC
 2/8 15,962 38.59% +245 Loser:
NDP
 15,717 38.00% Colin P. Kelly
After his election:
3 Oct 1989 60
SC
 →
ISC
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
14 Feb 1990 60
ISC
 →
SC
 Changed allegiance (joined government)
Service: 4 years 11 months 24 days (Gov't & Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: 28,941 Votes: 23,269 Participation: 80.40% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
35		 British Columbia
17 October 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 7927(F) — 5 Mar 2022 08:42 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
62
SC
 3/4 5,113 22.27% -6,260 Winner:
LIB
 11,373 49.53% Arthur R. Cowie

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Douglas Lyall "Doug" Mowat		 12 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Doug Mowat		 12 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 12 Feb 2024 22:18 (but data presented dynamically)

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