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♂ Donald Grant Devine
aliasGrant Devine
Record
15817 · 3476

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Saskatchewan 3 2 5
Total 3 3 6
Birth 5 July 1944
Age 79 years + 9 months
First mandate 26 April 1982 → 42 years + 3 days ago
↳ at age 37 years + 9 months
 
Mandate ended 28 years + 10 months ago (20 June 1995)
Special notes
None
 
Donald Grant Devine (1944– )
© Photo 1989 Regina Leader-Post via The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, University of Regina — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Devine was the only Progressive Conservative premier in Sas­kat­che­wan's history. Although he was never implicated in any criminal wrong­doing, his reputation was ruined within the new federal Con­ser­va­tive Party when it formed in the early 2000s and he was deemed an undesirable candidate, the result of a number of his former MLAs and staffers having been found guilty of expense account fraud committed during his second term as premier.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Saskatchewan 13 1 22 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. SK 19–22
PC
 1 Party leader 35–48 09 Nov 1979 — 07 Oct 1992 12 10 28
2. SK 20–21
PC
 1 Premier 37–47 26 Apr 1982 — 20 Oct 1991 9 5 24
3. SK 22
PC
 1 Opposition Leader 47–48 02 Dec 1991 — 07 Oct 1992 0 10 5

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
4 documented challengers
⊖ John O. Chapman  m  (2 runoffs)
⊕ Edward Komarnicki  m 
 		 ⊕ Ralph E. Goodale  m 
⊖ Wesley A. Robbins  m 
 
Eligible: 10,591 Votes: 8,313 Participation: 78.49% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
19		 Saskatchewan
18 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 9166(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
34
PC
 2/3 2,466 29.76% -2,273 Winner:
NPD
 4,739 57.20% Wesley A. Robbins
Eligible: 10,060 Votes: 7,932 Participation: 78.85% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
19		 Saskatchewan
26 November 1980
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 13247(F) — 12 Oct 2021 22:53 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
36
PC
 2/3 2,858 36.03% -60 Winner:
NPD
 2,918 36.79% John O. Chapman
Eligible: 10,264 Votes: 9,292 Participation: 90.53% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
20		 Saskatchewan
26 April 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10664(F) — 12 Oct 2021 22:54 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
37
PC
 1/4 5,487 59.21% +2,540 Loser:
NDP
 2,947 31.80% John O. Chapman

Service: 4 years 5 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,924 Votes: 9,538 Participation: 87.31% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
21		 Saskatchewan
20 October 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10729(F) — 12 Oct 2021 22:54 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
42
PC
 1/4 6,037 63.43% +3,271 Loser:
NDP
 2,766 29.06% Dan Tanjerd

Service: 5 years (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,526 Votes: 9,400 Participation: 89.30% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Saskatchewan
21 October 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 13382(F) — 12 Oct 2021 22:55 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
47
PC
 1/3 4,079 43.52% +675 Loser:
NDP
 3,404 36.32% Leonard Haukeness

Service: 3 years 7 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,175 Votes: 7,455 Participation: 66.71% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 Saskatchewan
21 June 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 13448(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
NDP
 2,641 35.61% Larry C. Ward
Eligible: 48,771 Votes: 30,719 Participation: 62.99% Candidacies: 6
Federal
38		 Saskatchewan
28 June 2004
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1260(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
59
IND
 2/6 8,399 27.42% -2,907 Winner:
CPC
 11,306 36.90% Edward Komarnicki

Online biographical references (6)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
The Globe and Mail (21 February 2004), Opinion: Blocking Grant Devine		 09 Apr 2024
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Grant Devine		 09 Apr 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Devine, Donald Grant		 09 Apr 2024
EN Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, University of Regina
Devine, Grant (1944- )		 09 Apr 2024
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: Members of the Legislative Assembly
Devine, Donald Grant 1944 –  (p. 9)		 09 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Grant Devine		 09 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Grant Devine		 09 Apr 2024

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