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♀ Thelma Bessie Forbes
aliasThelma Forbes
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Manitoba 3 0 3
Birth 26 September 1910 → 113 years + 7 months ago
Lived 101 years + 3 months
First mandate 26 November 1959 → 64 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 2 months
Death 5 January 2012 → 12 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 42 years + 6 months after 24 June 1969
Special notes
None
 
Thelma Bessie Forbes (1910–2012)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba via MSH — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
First elected in a 1959 by-election, Forbes, a Manitoba Progressive Conservative, became that assembly's first woman Speaker on February 28, 1963.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 9 6 26 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 27
PC
 1 Speaker 52–55 28 Feb 1963 — 22 Jun 1966 3 3 25

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Welland (Stoney) Stonehouse  m 
 		 ⊖ Charles R. Turner  m 
 
Eligible: 6,540 Votes: 4,032 Participation: 61.65% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
26 November 1959
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37749(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
49
PC
 1/2 2,378 58.98% +724 Loser:
LIBP
 1,654 41.02% John L. Sundell

Service: 3 years 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,510 Votes: 5,002 Participation: 76.84% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37761(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
PC
 1/3 2,746 55.58% +818 Loser:
LIB
 1,928 39.02% Welland (Stoney) Stonehouse

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,244 Votes: 4,240 Participation: 67.91% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13829(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
PC
 1/2 2,331 55.25% +443 Loser:
LIB
 1,888 44.75% Duncan Campbell

Service: 3 years 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,647 Votes: 5,977 Participation: 69.12% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13917(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
PC
 3,053 51.51% M. Earl McKellar

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Forbes, Thelma		 09 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Forbes, Thelma		 09 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Thelma Bessie Brown Forbes (1910-2012)		 09 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Thelma Forbes		 09 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Apr 2024 22:16 (but data presented dynamically)

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