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♂ W. Wynn Meldrum
aliasW. Wynn Meldrum
Record
42817 · 10983

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 0 3
Birth 27 June 1924 → 99 years + 10 months ago
Lived 88 years + 7 months
First mandate 27 September 1965 → 58 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 41 years + 3 months
Death 13 February 2013 → 11 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 38 years + 2 months after 17 November 1974
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 9 1 18 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 45
LIB
 1 Minister 40–41 13 May 1965 — 05 Apr 1966 0 10 23
 1. Attorney General

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph E. LeBlanc  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. McNevin  m 
 		 ⊖ J. Cléophas Léger  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Percy E. Mitton  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 15,958 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
45		 New Brunswick
27 September 1965
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32517(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
41
LIB
 1/2 10,570 66.24% +5,182 Loser:
PC
 5,388 33.76% Robert V. Landry

Service: 2 years 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 24,686 Votes: 78,552 Participation: 83.66% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32535(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LIB
 1/8 11,785 60.01% +3,309 Loser:
PC
 8,476 43.16% Frank K. Wortman

Service: 3 years 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 27,216 Votes: 81,863 Participation: 82.03% Candidacies: 11
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32566(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
LIB
 2/11 10,495 51.46% +979 Loser:
PC
 9,516 46.66% Frank K. Wortman

Service: 4 years 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,250 Votes: 5,342 Participation: 73.68% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8537(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
PC
 2,402 45.35% Lloyd G. Folkins

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
W. Wynn Meldrum		 24 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 24 Oct 2023 17:03 (but data presented dynamically)

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