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♂ Merryl Lawton
aliasMerryl Lawton
Record
34748 · 4186

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth c. 1949
Age ± 75 years
First mandate 6 November 1984 → 39 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age ± 35 years
 
Mandate ended 35 years + 7 months ago (5 September 1988)
Special notes
None
 

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 3 9 29 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 8,509 Votes: 5,714 Participation: 67.15% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
54		 Nova Scotia
6 November 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1546(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±35
PC
 1/3 3,451 60.66% +1,794 Loser:
LIB
 1,657 29.13% Paul Scovil

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,399 Votes: 6,690 Participation: 79.65% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 Nova Scotia
6 September 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1494(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±39		 Successor:
LIB
 3,514 52.87% Joseph H. Casey

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Lawton, Merryl (p. 150)		 21 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Merryl Lawton		 21 Aug 2023

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