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♀ Jane Stopford Purves
aliasJane Purves
Record
51117 · 4043

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 1 2
Birth 22 July 1949 → 74 years + 9 months ago
Lived 63 years + 10 months
First mandate 27 July 1999 → 24 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 50 years
Death 1 June 2013 → 10 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 9 years + 9 months after 4 August 2003
Special notes
None
 
Jane Stopford Purves (1949–2013)
© Photo 2002 Andrew Vaughan (The Canadian Press) via Global News — 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
Nova Scotia 4 0 8 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Peter Delefes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ C. Edwin Kinley  m 
 		 ⊕ Daniel Graham  m 
 
Eligible: 13,694 Votes: 9,300 Participation: 67.91% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1396(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
PC
 1/5 3,392 36.83% +434 Loser:
NDP
 2,958 32.11% Peter Delefes

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 12,499 Votes: 8,176 Participation: 65.41% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
59		 Nova Scotia
5 August 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 1290(F) — 9 Feb 2022 12:51 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
54
PC
 3/5 2,466 30.27% -576 Winner:
LIB
 3,042 37.34% Daniel Graham

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Purves, Jane Stopford (p. 232)		 13 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Jane Purves		 13 Apr 2024

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