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♀ Rosemary Brown
aliasRosemary Brown
Record
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☆   Jamaican-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 4 0 4
Birth 17 June 1930 → 93 years + 10 months ago
Lived 72 years + 10 months
First mandate 30 August 1972 → 51 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 2 months
Death 26 April 2003 → 21 years ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 6 months after 21 October 1986
Special notes
None
 
Rosemary Brown (1930–2003)
© Photo BC NDP — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Upon her election for the NDP in Vancouver-Burrard in the 1972 British Columbia general election, Brown became the first Black female MLA in a Canadian legislature.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 14 1 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Norman Levi  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Bert Price  m 
 
Eligible: 46,132 Votes: 55,314 Participation: 59.95% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
30		 British Columbia
30 August 1972
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 30107(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
NDP
 2/8 12,162 44.47% +4,979 Loser:
SC
 7,183 26.26% George Wainborn

Service: 3 years 3 months 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 49,834 Votes: 55,325 Participation: 55.51% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
31		 British Columbia
11 December 1975
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 30157(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
NDP
 1/8 12,664 46.27% +430 Loser:
SC
 12,234 44.70% Francis A. Hillier

Service: 3 years 4 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 28,648 Votes: 19,330 Participation: 67.47% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 British Columbia
10 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 30169(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
NDP
 1/3 9,634 50.85% +1,259 Loser:
SC
 8,375 44.20% William A. Lewarne

Service: 3 years 11 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 27,428 Votes: 21,358 Participation: 77.87% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
33		 British Columbia
5 May 1983
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 35787(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
NDP
 1/3 10,677 50.70% +585 Loser:
SC
 10,092 47.92% Robert G. Begin

Service: 3 years 5 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 28,313 Votes: 21,718 Participation: 76.71% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 British Columbia
22 October 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 35839(F) — 25 Jul 2023 19:04 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
56		 Successor:
SC
 10,299 48.23% David M. Mercier

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician)		 28 Jan 2024
FR Wikipédia
Rosemary Brown (femme politique canadienne)		 28 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 28 Jan 2024 23:30 (but data presented dynamically)

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