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♂ Walter Ernest Clark
aliasWalter Clark
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 17 July 1890 → 133 years + 10 months ago
Lived 96 years + 8 months
First mandate 27 June 1955 → 68 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 64 years + 11 months
Death 26 March 1987 → 37 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 28 years + 9 months after 15 June 1958
Special notes
None
 
Walter Ernest Clark (1890–1987)
© Photo Association of Manitoba Municipalities via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve RM Argyle, Manitoba
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 2 11 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Marcel Boulic  m 
 		 ⊖ Abram W. Harrison  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 4,840 Votes: 3,623 Participation: 74.86% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
27 June 1955
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37630(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
64
LIBP
 1/3 1,849 51.04% +276 Loser:
PC
 1,573 43.42% Pierre-Marcel J. Boulic

Service: 2 years 11 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,490 Votes: 4,730 Participation: 72.88% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37670(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
67
LIBP
 2/2 2,227 47.46% -238 Winner:
PC
 2,465 52.54% Abram W. Harrison
Eligible: 6,491 Votes: 5,041 Participation: 77.66% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37727(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
68
LIBP
 2/3 1,843 36.71% -702 Winner:
PC
 2,545 50.70% Abram W. Harrison

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Clark, Walter Ernest		 18 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Clark, Walter Ernest		 18 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Walter Ernest Clark (1890-1987)		 18 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Walter Clark (Canadian politician)		 18 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 18 May 2024 12:04 (but data presented dynamically)

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