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♂ Charles Hubert Witney
aliasBuck Witney
Record
65854 · 3752

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 2 5
Birth 12 July 1919 → 104 years + 10 months ago
Lived 71 years + 10 months
First mandate 14 May 1959 → 65 years + 2 days ago
↳ at age 39 years + 10 months
Death 21 May 1991 → 32 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 21 years + 10 months after 24 June 1969
Special notes
None
 
Charles Hubert (Buck) Witney (1919–1991)
© Photo Ian Witney via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
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
Manitoba 10 1 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas Barrow  m 
 		 ⊖ Bud Jobin  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 5,765 Votes: 4,160 Participation: 72.16% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37649(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
38
PC
 2/3 1,563 37.80% -372 Winner:
LIBP
 1,935 46.80% Francis L. (Bud) Jobin
Eligible: 5,715 Votes: 4,477 Participation: 78.34% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37706(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
PC
 1/3 1,810 40.57% +82 Loser:
LIBP
 1,728 38.74% Francis L. (Bud) Jobin

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,517 Votes: 4,025 Participation: 72.96% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37768(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
PC
 1/3 2,375 59.40% +1,200 Loser:
LIB
 1,175 29.39% Eli Ross

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,254 Votes: 3,933 Participation: 74.86% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13833(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
PC
 1/3 1,750 44.75% +660 Loser:
NDP
 1,090 27.87% Scott Day

Service: 3 years 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,179 Votes: 5,015 Participation: 69.86% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13890(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
49
PC
 2/3 1,675 33.53% -370 Winner:
NDP
 2,045 40.93% Thomas A. Barrow

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Witney, Charles H.		 27 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Witney, Charles H.		 27 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Charles Hubert "Buck" Witney (1919-1991)		 27 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Charles Witney		 27 Apr 2024

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