Robert Carman Coates

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Robert Carman Coates

Statistics

Races

11

Race Wins

11

Total Votes

171,011

Affiliated Parties

Progressive Conservative Party

Electoral Record

Cumberland–Colchester

— Nova Scotia

1984 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		24,180

Ron Creighton	Liberal Party of Canada		12,489

Jessie Mae McCarron	New Democratic Party		5,527

Cumberland–Colchester

— Nova Scotia

1980 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		18,463

Walter T. Purdy	Liberal Party of Canada		13,737

Hayden M. Trenholm	New Democratic Party		7,111

Robert Bob Kirk	Independent		337
Dean Whalen	Independent		194

Cumberland–Colchester

— Nova Scotia

1979 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		22,827

Sam Brushett	Liberal Party of Canada		12,154

Hayden M. Trenholm	New Democratic Party		5,662

Robert Bob Kirk	Independent		294

Cumberland–Colchester North

— Nova Scotia

1974 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		18,078

Sam Brushett	Liberal Party of Canada		13,666

Allan McLean Marchbank	New Democratic Party		2,369

Beatrice Holmes	Social Credit Party of Canada		133

Cumberland–Colchester North

— Nova Scotia

1972 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		19,455

R.M. Dick Van Snick	Liberal Party of Canada		10,163

Allan McLean Marchbank	New Democratic Party		3,635

Robert Kirk	No affiliation		245

Cumberland–Colchester North

— Nova Scotia

1968 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		18,446

Harry Flemming	Liberal Party of Canada		10,139

Gordon S. Schurman	New Democratic Party		1,696

— Nova Scotia

1965 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		9,560

C. Elmer Bragg	Liberal Party of Canada		7,088

Carson C. Spicer	New Democratic Party		1,327

— Nova Scotia

1963 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		9,034

H. Keith Russell	Liberal Party of Canada		8,082

Carson Carlyle Spicer	New Democratic Party		874

— Nova Scotia

1962 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		9,524

H. Keith Russell	Liberal Party of Canada		7,817

Carson Carlyle Spicer	New Democratic Party		1,265

John Vincent Forbes	Social Credit Party of Canada		165

— Nova Scotia

1958 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		11,379

Azel Randolph Lusby	Liberal Party of Canada		7,525

— Nova Scotia

1957 General Election

Robert Carman Coates	Progressive Conservative Party		10,065

Azel Randolph Lusby	Liberal Party of Canada		8,398

Occupation History

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