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♀ Karen Haslam
aliasKaren Haslam
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
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Ontario 1 1 2
Birth 19 April 1946
Age 78 years
First mandate 6 September 1990 → 33 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 4 months
 
Mandate ended 28 years + 10 months ago (7 June 1995)
Special notes
None
 
Karen Haslam (1946– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Ontario — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
In October 1991, Haslam, at the time the Ontario NDP Minister of Culture and Communication, was escorting then Prince Charles on a tour of the Art Gallery of Ontario when she caught her heel in a door sill and her shoe fell off. Charles gallantly picked it up and offered it back to her, to which she said, "My gracious, my prince is handing me my shoe... Thank goodness it fits."
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Stratford, Ontario (2000–2003)
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
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Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 4 9 0 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Bert Johnson  m 
 
 
Eligible: 48,350 Votes: 32,027 Participation: 66.24% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
35		 Ontario
6 September 1990
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 5513(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:22 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
44
NDP
 1/4 11,712 36.83% +2,991 Loser:
LIB
 8,721 27.42% Gerry Teahen

Service: 4 years 9 months 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 49,097 Votes: 30,883 Participation: 62.90% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
36		 Ontario
8 June 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 5363(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:22 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
49
NDP
 2/5 8,445 27.55% -5,290 Winner:
PC
 13,735 44.81% Bert Johnson

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Karen Haslam		 19 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Karen Haslam		 19 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Karen Haslam		 19 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 19 Apr 2024 00:12 (but data presented dynamically)

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