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♀ Elizabeth Jane Weir
aliasElizabeth Weir
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 4 1 5
Birth 20 February 1948
Age 76 years + 2 months
First mandate 23 September 1991 → 32 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 7 months
 
Mandate ended 18 years + 7 months ago (25 September 2005)
Special notes
None
 
Elizabeth Jane Weir (1948– )
© Photo Legislative Library, New Brunswick — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 13 11 30 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 51–55
NDP
 1 Party leader 40–57 18 Jun 1988 — 24 Sep 2005 17 3 6

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ David A. Bishop  m 
 		 ⊖ John P. Mooney  m 
 
Eligible: 11,024 Votes: 9,114 Participation: 82.67% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
50		 New Brunswick
12 October 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1801(F) — 6 May 2023 19:02 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
34
NDP
 3/3 1,115 12.31% -3,163 Winner:
PC
 4,278 47.22% David A. Bishop
Eligible: 8,386 Votes: 4,382 Participation: 52.25% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
52		 New Brunswick
23 September 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1680(F) — 15 Sep 2021 09:42 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
43
NDP
 1/4 1,675 38.65% +79 Loser:
LIB
 1,596 36.83% John P. Mooney

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,485 Votes: 5,660 Participation: 59.67% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
53		 New Brunswick
11 September 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 636(F) — 3 Sep 2023 20:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
47
NDP
 1/5 2,901 51.76% +1,088 Loser:
LIB
 1,813 32.35% Robert A. Higgins

Service: 3 years 8 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,554 Votes: 5,180 Participation: 60.56% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
54		 New Brunswick
7 June 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 581(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
51
NDP
 1/4 2,398 46.58% +1,049 Loser:
PC
 1,349 26.20% Tim Clarke

Service: 4 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,768 Votes: 4,487 Participation: 45.94% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 New Brunswick
9 June 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 228(F) — 12 Feb 2022 17:17 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
55
NDP
 1/3 1,929 43.39% +643 Loser:
PC
 1,286 28.92% Dennis Boyle
After her election:
25 Sep 2005 57
NDP
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 2 years 3 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,418 Votes: 4,321 Participation: 58.25% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
55		 New Brunswick
14 November 2005
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10939(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
LIB
 2,367 55.25% Edward J. Doherty

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Library of New Brunswick, Women MLA Listing
Elizabeth Jane Weir		 14 Apr 2024
FR Bibliothèque législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Liste des députées
Elizabeth Jane Weir		 14 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Elizabeth Weir		 14 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Elizabeth Weir (femme politique)		 14 Apr 2024

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