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♂ Walter E. Clark
aliasWalter E. Clark
Record
11324 · 14189

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 17 July 1890 → 133 years + 9 months ago
Lived 96 years + 8 months
First mandate 27 June 1955 → 68 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 64 years + 11 months
Death 26 March 1987 → 37 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 28 years + 9 months after 15 June 1958
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
Manitoba 2 11 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Pierre-Marcel J. Boulic  m 
 		 ⊖ Abram W. Harrison  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 4,840 Votes: 3,623 Participation: 74.86% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
27 June 1955
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37630(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
64
LIBP
 1/3 1,849 51.04% +276 Loser:
PC
 1,573 43.42% Pierre-Marcel J. Boulic

Service: 2 years 11 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,490 Votes: 4,730 Participation: 72.88% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37670(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
67
LIBP
 2/2 2,227 47.46% -238 Winner:
PC
 2,465 52.54% Abram W. Harrison
Eligible: 6,491 Votes: 5,041 Participation: 77.66% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37727(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
68
LIBP
 2/3 1,843 36.71% -702 Winner:
PC
 2,545 50.70% Abram W. Harrison

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Clark, Walter Ernest		 02 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Clark, Walter Ernest		 02 Aug 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Walter Ernest Clark (1890-1987)		 02 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Walter Clark (Canadian politician)		 02 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  2 Aug 2023 16:42 (but data presented dynamically)

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