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♀ Mabel Margaret DeWare
aliasMabel Margaret DeWare
Record
15871 · 2625

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 1 3
Birth 9 August 1926 → 97 years + 8 months ago
Lived 96 years
First mandate 23 October 1978 → 45 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 2 months
Death 17 August 2022 → 1 year + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 34 years + 10 months after 12 October 1987
Special notes
None
 
Mabel Margaret DeWare (1926–2022)
© Photo Michael Bedford Photography via Parlinfo — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
After visiting a mine in northern New Brunswick early in her tenure as Minister of Labour, DeWare was questioned on what she could possibly know about "labour." Not missing a beat, she retorted to the assembly of men, "I know more about labour than any of you ever will! A woman in labour always delivers!"
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 8 11 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊕ James E. Lockyer  m 
 
 
Eligible: 10,017 Votes: 7,356 Participation: 73.44% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8457(F) — 9 Apr 2022 17:46 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
52
PC
 1/3 4,211 57.91% +1,380 Loser:
LIB
 2,831 38.93% Donald A. Canning

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,881 Votes: 7,795 Participation: 78.89% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
50		 New Brunswick
12 October 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1776(F) — 9 Apr 2022 17:46 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
PC
 1/3 4,242 54.84% +1,350 Loser:
LIB
 2,892 37.39% Wayne Patterson

Service: 5 years (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,904 Votes: 7,602 Participation: 76.76% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
51		 New Brunswick
13 October 1987
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1718(F) — 9 Apr 2022 17:46 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
61
PC
 2/3 1,916 25.36% -2,937 Winner:
LIB
 4,853 64.24% James E. Lockyer

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Library of New Brunswick, Women MLA Listing
Mabel Margaret DeWare		 27 Mar 2024
FR Bibliothèque législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Liste des députées
Mabel Margaret DeWare		 27 Mar 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Mabel M. DeWare, Senator		 27 Mar 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Mabel M. DeWare, sénatrice		 27 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Mabel DeWare		 27 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Mabel DeWare		 27 Mar 2024

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