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♀ Myrna Driedger
aliasMyrna Driedger
Record
17017 · 3938

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 7 0 7
Birth c. 1952
Age ± 72 years
First mandate 28 April 1998 → 25 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age ± 46 years
 
Mandate ended 6 months + 25 days ago (2 October 2023)
Special notes
None
 
Myrna Driedger (c.1952– )
© 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 25 4 29 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 41–42
PC
 1 Speaker 64–71 18 May 2016 — 08 Nov 2023 7 5 21

Electoral history

Races 7  
Path points 8  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,252 Participation: 39.50% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
36		 Manitoba
28 April 1998
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13945(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±46
PC
 1/3 2,767 52.68% +1,243 Loser:
LIB
 1,524 29.02% Alan McKenzie

Service: 1 year 4 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,515 Votes: 9,983 Participation: 73.87% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
37		 Manitoba
21 September 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9585(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±47
PC
 1/3 5,437 54.72% +3,114 Loser:
LIB
 2,323 23.38% Alana McKenzie

Service: 3 years 8 months 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,677 Votes: 8,240 Participation: 60.25% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
38		 Manitoba
3 June 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9642(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±51
PC
 1/3 3,961 48.32% +1,161 Loser:
LIB
 2,800 34.16% Rick Ross

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,832 Votes: 8,221 Participation: 59.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
39		 Manitoba
22 May 2007
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9699(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±55
PC
 1/3 4,469 54.61% +1,866 Loser:
NDP
 2,603 31.81% Mel Willis

Service: 4 years 4 months 11 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,249 Votes: 8,705 Participation: 61.09% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
40		 Manitoba
4 October 2011
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9756(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±59
PC
 1/4 4,838 55.83% +2,237 Loser:
NDP
 2,601 30.01% Paul Beckta

Service: 4 years 6 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,450 Votes: 8,830 Participation: 65.65% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
41		 Manitoba
19 April 2016
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9813(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±64
PC
 1/4 5,298 60.67% +4,111 Loser:
LIB
 1,187 13.59% Paul Brault

Service: 3 years 4 months 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 18,257 Votes: 11,289 Participation: 61.83% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
42		 Manitoba
10 September 2019
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27357(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±67
PC
 1/4 6,203 55.19% +4,180 Loser:
NDP
 2,023 18.00% Sophie Brandt Murenzi

Service: 4 years 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,699 Votes: 12,320 Participation: 62.54% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
43		 Manitoba
3 October 2023
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 39065(F) — 14 Oct 2023 10:15 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±71		 Successor:
PC
 6,088 49.72% Kathleen Cook

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Driedger, Myrna		 10 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Driedger, Myrna		 10 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Myrna Driedger		 10 Feb 2024

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