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♂ Herold Leonhart Driedger
aliasHerold Driedger
Record
17016 · 3902

German-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 28 March 1942
Age 82 years
First mandate 26 April 1988 → 36 years + 1 day ago
↳ at age 46 years
 
Mandate ended 33 years + 7 months ago (10 September 1990)
Special notes
None
 
Herold Leonhart Driedger (1942– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba — 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 2 4 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
4 documented challengers
⊕ Louise Dacquay  f 
⊕ Gérard Lécuyer  m 
 		 ⊖ Abe Kovnats  m 
⊖ Reginald A. (Al) Patterson  m 
 
Eligible: 12,924 Votes: 8,988 Participation: 69.55% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9382(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
43
P
 4/4 240 2.68% -4,570 Winner:
NDP
 4,810 53.71% Gérard Lécuyer
Eligible: 22,705 Votes: 18,082 Participation: 79.64% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Manitoba
26 April 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 9435(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
LIB
 1/4 8,576 47.48% +1,354 Loser:
PC
 7,222 39.99% Abe Kovnats

Service: 2 years 4 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 15,084 Votes: 10,995 Participation: 72.89% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
35		 Manitoba
11 September 1990
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9479(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
48
LIB
 2/4 4,418 40.30% -47 Winner:
PC
 4,465 40.72% Louise Dacquay

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Driedger, Herold		 21 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Driedger, Herold		 21 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Herold Driedger		 21 Apr 2024

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