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♂ Harold Arthur Martens
aliasHarold Martens
Record
39636 · 3485

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Saskatchewan 3 2 5
Birth 8 September 1941 → 82 years + 7 months ago
Lived 81 years + 4 months
First mandate 26 April 1982 → 42 years + 7 days ago
↳ at age 40 years + 7 months
Death 8 January 2023 → 1 year + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 6 months after 20 June 1995
Special notes
None
 
Harold Arthur Martens (1941–2023)
© Photo 2023 Swift Current Funeral Home and Crematorium — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Excelsior, Saskatchewan
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

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

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Reginald J. Gross  m  (4 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ John E.N. (Jack) Wiebe  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 8,087 Votes: 6,877 Participation: 85.04% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Saskatchewan
11 June 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 9091(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
33
PC
 3/3 1,847 26.90% -670 Winner:
LIB
 2,517 36.66% John E.N. (Jack) Wiebe
Eligible: 8,268 Votes: 6,827 Participation: 82.57% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
19		 Saskatchewan
18 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 9142(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
37
PC
 2/3 2,203 32.33% -384 Winner:
NPD
 2,587 37.97% Reginald J. Gross
Eligible: 8,125 Votes: 7,151 Participation: 88.01% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
20		 Saskatchewan
26 April 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10679(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
40
PC
 1/4 3,565 49.94% +1,156 Loser:
NDP
 2,409 33.75% Reginald J. Gross

Service: 4 years 5 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,757 Votes: 6,596 Participation: 85.03% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
21		 Saskatchewan
20 October 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10744(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
PC
 1/4 3,694 56.12% +1,485 Loser:
NDP
 2,209 33.56% Reginald J. Gross

Service: 5 years (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,120 Votes: 6,066 Participation: 85.20% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Saskatchewan
21 October 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 13397(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
PC
 1/3 2,682 44.42% +581 Loser:
NDP
 2,101 34.80% Carl Siemens

Service: 3 years 7 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,154 Votes: 8,667 Participation: 77.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 Saskatchewan
21 June 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 13498(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
53		 Successor:
LIB
 4,146 48.04% Glen A. McPherson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: Members of the Legislative Assembly
Martens, Harold Arthur 1941 –  (p. 24)		 14 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Harold Martens		 14 Apr 2024

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