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♂ D. James Walding
aliasD. James Walding
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 1 6
Birth 9 May 1937 → 86 years + 11 months ago
Lived 69 years + 11 months
First mandate 5 April 1971 → 53 years + 22 days ago
↳ at age 33 years + 10 months
Death 23 April 2007 → 17 years ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 11 months after 25 April 1988
Special notes
None
 
D. James Walding (1937–2007)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A disgruntled Manitoba NDP backbencher, Walding brought down his own government in 1988 by voting against the budget. A majority government had never before been defeated by a vote from one of its own.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 17 0 16 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 32
NDP
 1 Speaker 44–48 25 Feb 1982 — 17 Mar 1986 4 0 20

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Jackson A. Hardy  m 
⊖ Joseph C. Stangl  m 
 		 ⊖ Daniel P. Kennedy  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 10,617 Votes: 7,224 Participation: 68.04% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13924(F) — 25 Mar 2022 15:09 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
32
NDP
 2/3 2,564 35.69% -23 Winner:
PC
 2,587 36.01% Jackson A. Hardy
Eligible: inc. Votes: 9,399 Participation: 83.05% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
5 April 1971
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13940(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
NDP
 1/4 3,378 35.94% +295 Loser:
LIB
 3,083 32.80% Daniel P. Kennedy

Service: 2 years 2 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,546 Votes: 9,911 Participation: 85.84% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9222(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
36
NDP
 1/3 3,870 39.25% +105 Loser:
LIB
 3,765 38.18% Daniel P. Kennedy

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,154 Votes: 9,447 Participation: 84.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9283(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
NDP
 1/3 3,924 41.62% +534 Loser:
PC
 3,390 35.95% Gil Shaw

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,974 Votes: 10,458 Participation: 80.61% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9340(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
NDP
 1/3 5,504 52.80% +1,268 Loser:
PC
 4,236 40.64% John Robertson

Service: 4 years 4 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,285 Votes: 9,805 Participation: 73.81% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9397(F) — 20 Mar 2022 22:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
NDP
 1/3 4,430 45.32% +558 Loser:
PC
 3,872 39.62% Paul Herriot
After his election:
8 Mar 1988 50
NDP
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 2 years 1 month 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,296 Votes: 10,514 Participation: 79.08% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
34		 Manitoba
26 April 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 9454(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
LIB
 4,431 42.22% Robert D. Rose

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Walding, Derek James		 26 Jan 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Walding, Derek James		 26 Jan 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Derek James "Jim" Walding (1937-2007)		 26 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Jim Walding		 26 Jan 2024

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Rev.: 26 Jan 2024 22:28 (but data presented dynamically)

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