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♂ Melville B. Couvelier
aliasMelville B. Couvelier
Record
13109 · 13507

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 1 2 3
Birth 20 January 1931 → 93 years + 3 months ago
Lived 80 years + 4 months
First mandate 22 October 1986 → 37 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 55 years + 9 months
Death 30 May 2011 → 12 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 19 years + 7 months after 16 October 1991
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 4 11 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
6 documented challengers
⊖ William N. Chant  m 
⊖ Howard R. McDiarmid  m 
⊖ Clive Tanner  m 
 		 ⊕ Terry Huberts  m 
⊖ Waldo M. Skillings  m 
⊖ George S. Wallace  m 
 
Eligible: 41,955 Votes: 58,451 Participation: 69.66% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
29		 British Columbia
27 August 1969
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 30062(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
38
LIB
 6/7 4,497 15.52% -10,946 Winner:
SC
 15,443 53.29% Waldo M. Skillings
Eligible: 25,565 Votes: 19,976 Participation: 78.14% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 British Columbia
30 August 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 30092(F) — 4 Mar 2022 19:54 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
41
LIB
 3/4 3,253 16.47% -7,066 Winner:
PC
 10,319 52.26% George S. Wallace
Eligible: 51,897 Votes: 81,861 Participation: 78.87% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
34		 British Columbia
22 October 1986
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 35872(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
55
SC
 1/5 20,658 50.83% +3,465 Loser:
NDP
 17,193 42.31% Carolyn M. Pickup

Service: 4 years 11 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 29,141 Votes: 23,274 Participation: 79.87% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
35		 British Columbia
17 October 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 7910(F) — 14 Oct 2021 20:01 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
60		 Successor:
NDP
 10,254 44.63% Andrew J. Petter

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Mel Couvelier		 02 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  2 Aug 2023 22:44 (but data presented dynamically)

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