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♂ Melville Henry Watkins
aliasMel Watkins
Record
64164 · 14895

Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 2 2
Birth 15 May 1932 → 91 years + 11 months ago
Lived 87 years + 10 months
First run 2 June 1997 → 26 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 65 years
Death 2 April 2020 → 4 years + 1 month ago
 
Special notes
One of the founders of The Waffle, a radical wing of Canada's NDP in the late 1960s and early 1970s that es­poused Canadian nationalism and solidarity with Quebec's sovereignty movement.
 
Melville Henry Watkins (1932–2020)
© Photo 2020 Toronto Star — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Maria Minna  f  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Steve Rutchinski  m 
 
Eligible: 68,127 Votes: 45,868 Participation: 67.33% Candidacies: 6
Federal
36		 Ontario
2 June 1997
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2952(F) — 1 Oct 2021 14:25 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
65
NDP
 2/6 10,730 23.55% -11,114 Winner:
LIB
 21,844 47.93% Maria Minna
Eligible: 75,284 Votes: 42,866 Participation: 56.94% Candidacies: 10
Federal
37		 Ontario
27 November 2000
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2716(F) — 1 Oct 2021 14:25 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
68
NDP
 2/10 8,936 20.93% -13,579 Winner:
LIB
 22,515 52.74% Maria Minna

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Mel Watkins		 10 May 2024
FR Wikipédia
Mel Watkins (économiste)		 10 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 10 May 2024 19:43 (but data presented dynamically)

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