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♀ Shirley T. Dysart
aliasShirley T. Dysart
Record
18068 · 2602

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 5 0 5
Birth 22 February 1928 → 96 years + 2 months ago
Lived 88 years + 9 months
First mandate 18 November 1974 → 49 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 46 years + 8 months
Death 14 December 2016 → 7 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 21 years + 3 months after 10 September 1995
Special notes
None
 
Shirley T. Dysart (1928–2016)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, New Brunswick — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Upon her first election in Saint John North in 1974, Dysart was the first Liberal woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. Moreover, she was the first woman speaker.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 20 9 18 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 50
LIB
 1 ✓ Party leader 56–57 01 Feb 1985 — 03 May 1985 0 3 2
2. NB 50
LIB
 1 ✓ Opposition Leader 56–57 01 Feb 1985 — 03 May 1985 0 3 2
3. NB 52
LIB
 1 Speaker 63–66 08 Oct 1991 — 01 May 1994 2 6 23
4. NB 52
LIB
 2 Speaker 66–67 01 Dec 1994 — 10 Sep 1995 0 9 9

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Hugh J. Flemming  m 
 
 
Eligible: 6,677 Votes: 4,533 Participation: 67.89% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8528(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
LIB
 1/3 2,231 49.45% +73 Loser:
PC
 2,158 47.83% Hugh J. Flemming

Service: 3 years 11 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,019 Votes: 4,237 Participation: 60.36% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8471(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
LIB
 1/3 1,976 47.00% +299 Loser:
PC
 1,677 39.89% Garry Bona

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,712 Votes: 4,934 Participation: 73.51% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
50		 New Brunswick
12 October 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1790(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
LIB
 1/3 2,247 45.91% +327 Loser:
PC
 1,920 39.23% Twyla Hartt

Service: 5 years (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,101 Votes: 4,421 Participation: 72.46% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
51		 New Brunswick
13 October 1987
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1732(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
LIB
 1/3 2,596 59.07% +1,617 Loser:
NDP
 979 22.28% Paul A. MacCovour

Service: 3 years 11 months 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,863 Votes: 4,106 Participation: 70.03% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
52		 New Brunswick
23 September 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1674(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
LIB
 1/4 1,743 42.74% +918 Loser:
COR
 825 20.23% Richard C.S. Kinsella

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,192 Votes: 6,352 Participation: 62.32% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
53		 New Brunswick
11 September 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 639(F) — 10 Apr 2022 12:27 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
67		 Successor:
LIB
 2,454 39.06% Leo A. McAdam

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Shirley Dysart		 16 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Shirley Dysart		 16 Feb 2024
EN Legislative Library of New Brunswick, Women MLA Listing
Shirley Theresa Dysart		 16 Feb 2024
FR Bibliothèque législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Liste des députées
Shirley Theresa Dysart		 16 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Shirley Dysart		 16 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Shirley Dysart		 16 Feb 2024

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