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♂ Walter C. Weir
aliasWalter C. Weir
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 4 0 4
Birth 7 June 1929 → 94 years + 10 months ago
Lived 55 years + 10 months
First mandate 14 May 1959 → 64 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 29 years + 11 months
Death 17 April 1985 → 39 years ago
Exit → Death 13 years + 7 months after 1 September 1971
Special notes
None
 
Walter C. Weir (1929–1985)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
It is difficult not to think of Weir, a Progressive Conservative and 15th premier of Manitoba, as anything but a sore loser. Upon the defeat of his government on Election Night 1969, Weir told his supporters, "The people have spoken. And the people are wrong."
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 12 3 15 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 28–29
PC
 1 Party leader 38–41 25 Nov 1967 — 26 Feb 1971 3 3 1
2. MB 28
PC
 1 Premier 38–40 27 Nov 1967 — 24 Jun 1969 1 6 28
3. MB 29
PC
 1 Opposition Leader 40–41 25 Jun 1969 — 13 Aug 1970 1 1 19

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊖ C. Lemington (Lem) Shuttleworth  m 
 
 
Eligible: 7,029 Votes: 5,526 Participation: 78.62% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37718(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
29
PC
 1/3 2,386 43.34% +357 Loser:
LIBP
 2,029 36.86% C. Lemington (Lem) Shuttleworth

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,814 Votes: 5,303 Participation: 77.83% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37780(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
33
PC
 1/4 2,828 53.44% +1,292 Loser:
LIB
 1,536 29.02% Frank Anderson

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,598 Votes: 5,200 Participation: 78.81% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13844(F) — 20 Mar 2022 22:05 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
PC
 1/4 2,136 41.29% +521 Loser:
LIB
 1,615 31.22% Don McNabb

Service: 3 years 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,285 Votes: 6,283 Participation: 75.84% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13901(F) — 20 Mar 2022 22:11 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
40
PC
 1/3 3,525 56.26% +1,812 Loser:
NDP
 1,713 27.34% Emile Roy
After his election:
1 Sep 1971 42
PC
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 2 years 2 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,285 Votes: 7,147 Participation: 86.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
16 November 1971
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13942(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
42		 Successor:
PC
 3,532 50.39% David R. Blake

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Weir, Walter C.		 06 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Weir, Walter C.		 06 Mar 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Walter Cox-Smith Weir (1929-1985)		 06 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Walter Weir		 06 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Walter Weir		 06 Mar 2024

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