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♂ H. Bennett Carr
aliasH. Bennett Carr
Record
9633 · 5645

Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 20%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 1 4 5
Birth 21 December 1929 → 94 years + 5 months ago
Lived 81 years + 3 months
First mandate 4 December 1972 → 51 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 11 months
Death 21 March 2011 → 13 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 36 years + 10 months after 28 April 1974
Special notes
None
 
H. Bennett Carr (1929–2011) 200x261
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — 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
Prince Edward Island 1 4 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ J. Sinclair Cutcliffe  m 
⊖ Harold P. Smith  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ David H. Ford  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,028 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
50		 Prince Edward Island
10 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 25810(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
32
PC
 2/2 949 46.79% -130 Winner:
LIB
 1,079 53.21% Harold P. Smith
Eligible: 2,341 Votes: 2,143 Participation: 91.54% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
51		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25842(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
36
PC
 2/2 991 49.04% -39 Winner:
LIB
 1,030 50.96% Harold P. Smith
Eligible: 4,286 Votes: 3,906 Participation: 91.13% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
52		 Prince Edward Island
11 May 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25870(F) — 14 Feb 2022 22:05 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
40
PC
 2/2 1,831 49.02% -73 Winner:
LIB
 1,904 50.98% J. Sinclair Cutcliffe
Eligible: 4,286 Votes: 3,663 Participation: 85.46% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
52		 Prince Edward Island
4 December 1972
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25883(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
PC
 1/3 1,910 52.14% +301 Loser:
LIB
 1,609 43.93% David H. Ford

Service: 1 year 4 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,117 Votes: 4,596 Participation: 89.82% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
29 April 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25906(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
44
PC
 2/3 2,010 45.97% -117 Winner:
LIB
 2,127 48.65% David H. Ford

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
InMemoriam.ca, H. Bennett Carr		 26 Dec 2023
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Carr, C.L.U., Howard Bennett		 26 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Bennett H. Carr		 26 Dec 2023

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