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♂ Donald Warder Orchard
aliasDon Orchard
Record
47260 · 3836

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 0 5
Birth 11 April 1946
Age 78 years
First mandate 11 October 1977 → 46 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 31 years + 6 months
 
Mandate ended 29 years + 3 days ago (24 April 1995)
Special notes
None
 
Donald Warder Orchard (1946– )
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 17 6 8 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 9,802 Votes: 7,481 Participation: 76.32% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9263(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
31
PC
 1/3 5,214 69.78% +4,073 Loser:
LIB
 1,141 15.27% Vic Epp

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 12,229 Votes: 8,213 Participation: 67.16% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9320(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
35
PC
 1/4 6,361 77.64% +5,499 Loser:
NDP
 862 10.52% Jeff Taylor

Service: 4 years 4 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,660 Votes: 8,089 Participation: 63.89% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9380(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
PC
 1/5 5,270 65.19% +4,326 Loser:
COR
 944 11.68% Abe Giesbrecht

Service: 2 years 1 month 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,823 Votes: 9,102 Participation: 70.98% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Manitoba
26 April 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 9437(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
PC
 1/4 6,043 66.44% +3,872 Loser:
LIB
 2,171 23.87% Marilyn Skubovius

Service: 2 years 4 months 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 12,017 Votes: 7,010 Participation: 58.33% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
35		 Manitoba
11 September 1990
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9494(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
PC
 1/3 5,497 78.73% +4,664 Loser:
LIB
 833 11.93% Marilyn Skubovius

Service: 4 years 7 months 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,287 Votes: 8,209 Participation: 61.78% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
36		 Manitoba
25 April 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9549(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
49		 Successor:
PC
 5,092 62.28% Peter G. Dyck

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Orchard, Donald		 11 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Orchard, Donald		 11 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Donald Warder "Don" Orchard		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Donald Orchard		 11 Apr 2024

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