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♀ Gwen Charles
aliasGwen Charles
Record
10483 · 3905

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 19 July 1949
Age 74 years + 9 months
First mandate 26 April 1988 → 36 years + 2 days ago
↳ at age 38 years + 9 months
 
Mandate ended 33 years + 7 months ago (10 September 1990)
Special notes
None
 
Gwen Charles (1949– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of 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  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Gregory Dewar  m 
⊕ Terence J. (Terry) Sargeant  m 
 		 ⊖ Howard R. Pawley  m 
 
Eligible: 12,502 Votes: 9,368 Participation: 74.93% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9390(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
36
LIB
 3/4 1,023 10.94% -4,112 Winner:
NDP
 5,135 54.93% Howard R. Pawley
Eligible: 13,448 Votes: 10,820 Participation: 80.46% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Manitoba
26 April 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 9447(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
LIB
 1/4 3,821 35.35% +184 Loser:
NDP
 3,637 33.64% Terence J. (Terry) Sargeant

Service: 2 years 4 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,758 Votes: 10,242 Participation: 74.44% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
35		 Manitoba
11 September 1990
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9504(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
41
LIB
 3/3 3,009 29.47% -726 Winner:
NDP
 3,735 36.58% Gregory Dewar

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Charles, Gwen		 24 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Charles, Gwen		 24 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Gwen Charles		 24 Feb 2024

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