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♀ Melanie Wight
aliasMelanie Wight
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth Unknown
   
First mandate 4 October 2011 → 12 years + 6 months ago
 
Mandate ended 8 years + 10 days ago (18 April 2016)
Special notes
None
 
Melanie Wight (? – )
© 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 4 6 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Cindy Lamoureux  f 
 
 
Eligible: 11,025 Votes: 5,191 Participation: 47.08% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
40		 Manitoba
4 October 2011
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9754(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
?
NDP
 1/5 3,063 59.34% +1,749 Loser:
PC
 1,314 25.46% Rick Negrych

Service: 4 years 6 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,883 Votes: 5,725 Participation: 52.60% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
41		 Manitoba
19 April 2016
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9812(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
?
NDP
 2/5 1,775 31.28% -866 Winner:
LIB
 2,641 46.55% Cindy Lamoureux

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Wight, Melanie		 27 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Wight, Melanie		 27 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Melanie Wight		 27 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Melanie Wight		 27 Feb 2024

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