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♂ Carlito M. Benito
aliasCarlito M. Benito
Record
4047 · 3108

☆   Filipino-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 2 3
Birth 21 February 1954
Age 70 years + 2 months
First mandate 3 March 2008 → 16 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 54 years
 
Mandate ended 12 years + 7 days ago (22 April 2012)
Special notes
None
 
Carlito M. Benito (1954– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Benito made a campaign promise that, if elected, he would donate his salary to charity, but when elected, the Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA claimed that he didn't mean he'd give away his entire salary — just a part of it.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 4 1 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
4 documented challengers
⊕ Christina Gray  f 
⊖ Weslyn M. Mather  f  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Donald L. Massey  m 
⊕ Sohail Quadri  m 
 
Eligible: 18,546 Votes: 10,075 Participation: 54.32% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Alberta
12 March 2001
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8679(F) — 8 Mar 2022 12:42 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
47
PC
 2/3 4,402 43.81% -518 Winner:
LIB
 4,920 48.97% Donald L. Massey
Eligible: 29,297 Votes: 10,868 Participation: 37.10% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
27		 Alberta
3 March 2008
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8847(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
54
PC
 1/5 4,752 43.87% +756 Loser:
LIB
 3,996 36.89% Weslyn M. Mather

Service: 4 years 1 month 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 25,920 Votes: 14,220 Participation: 54.86% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
28		 Alberta
23 April 2012
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8901(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
58
IND
 5/6 545 3.88% -4,397 Winner:
PC
 4,942 35.21% Sohail Quadri

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Carlito M. Benito		 21 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Carl Benito		 21 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 21 Feb 2024 09:21 (but data presented dynamically)

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