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♂ Walter Eric Darby
aliasWalter Eric Darby
Record
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Anglican   ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 2 1 3
Birth 21 November 1903 → 120 years + 5 months ago
Lived 76 years + 3 months
First mandate 1 August 1949 → 74 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 8 months
Death 17 March 1980 → 44 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 24 years + 9 months after 24 May 1955
Special notes
None
 
Walter Eric Darby (1903–1980)
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Harry A. Darby (1865–1952) Father  
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 5 9 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Ernest H. Strong  m 
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,582 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
45		 Prince Edward Island
15 September 1943
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25636(F) — 14 Feb 2022 15:03 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
39
LIB
 2/2 714 45.13% -154 Winner:
PC
 868 54.87% Ernest H. Strong
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
46		 Prince Edward Island
1 August 1949
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25686(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 1 year 8 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,185 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
47		 Prince Edward Island
26 April 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25700(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
LIB
 1/2 1,153 52.77% +121 Loser:
PC
 1,032 47.23% J. Foster Sharpe

Service: 4 years 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,446 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
48		 Prince Edward Island
25 May 1955
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25732(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
51		 Successor:
PC
 1,357 55.48% L. George Dewar

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Darby, K.C., Honourable Walter Eric		 17 Mar 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Walter Eric Darby		 17 Mar 2024

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