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♂ Walter Percival Wright
aliasPercy Wright
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 1 0 1
Birth 19 March 1909 → 115 years + 1 month ago
Lived 83 years + 5 months
First mandate 10 June 1953 → 70 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 2 months
Death 1 September 1992 → 31 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 38 years + 10 months after 19 October 1953
Special notes
None
 

Walter Percival Wright (1909–1992)
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Family tie with other documented individual
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Well that's interesting!
Imagine giving up the seat you just won four months earlier for a minister who lost his seat during the general election, and then that guy loses the resulting by-election! That sums up Wright's political life...
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 0 4 9 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ William T. Straith  m 
 
 
Eligible: 34,101 Votes: 24,587 Participation: 72.10% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
24		 British Columbia
10 June 1953
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29823(F) — 4 Mar 2022 10:37 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
44
SC
 1/5 9,032 40.30% +1,839 Loser:
LIB
 7,193 32.09% William T. Straith
After his election:
19 Oct 1953 44
SC
 →
Vac.
 To vacate the seat for someone else
Service: 4 months 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 34,101 Votes: 20,661 Participation: 60.59% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
24		 British Columbia
24 November 1953
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29827(F) — 14 Oct 2021 22:35 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
44		 Successor:
LIB
 8,456 41.33% George F.T. Gregory

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Walter Percival "Percy" Wright		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Walter Percival Wright		 11 Apr 2024

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