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♂ James W. Dingwell
aliasJames W. Dingwell
Record
16144 · 5610

United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 5 1 6
Birth 14 June 1911 → 112 years + 10 months ago
Lived 75 years + 2 months
First mandate 1 September 1959 → 64 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 2 months
Death 19 August 1986 → 37 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 8 years + 3 months after 23 April 1978
Special notes
None
 
James W. Dingwell (1911–1986) 200x210
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — 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
Prince Edward Island 18 7 17 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Harvey O. Douglas  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ John Claude Matheson  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,810 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
48		 Prince Edward Island
25 May 1955
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25722(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
43
PC
 2/2 843 46.57% -124 Winner:
LIB
 967 53.43% Harvey O. Douglas
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,803 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
49		 Prince Edward Island
1 September 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 25753(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
PC
 1/2 987 54.74% +171 Loser:
LIB
 816 45.26% Harvey O. Douglas

Service: 3 years 3 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,858 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
50		 Prince Edward Island
10 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 25785(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
PC
 1/2 1,084 58.34% +310 Loser:
LIB
 774 41.66% Aldius I. MacKenzie

Service: 3 years 5 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,700 Votes: 1,642 Participation: 96.65% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
51		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25817(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
PC
 1/2 851 55.30% +163 Loser:
LIB
 688 44.70% Don Anderson

Service: 3 years 11 months 10 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,882 Votes: 1,795 Participation: 95.38% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
52		 Prince Edward Island
11 May 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25850(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
PC
 1/2 876 51.87% +63 Loser:
LIB
 813 48.13% Don Anderson

Service: 3 years 11 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,845 Votes: 1,783 Participation: 96.64% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
29 April 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25886(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
PC
 1/3 840 49.41% +51 Loser:
LIB
 789 46.41% John Claude Matheson

Service: 3 years 11 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,943 Votes: 1,818 Participation: 93.57% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4761(F) — 30 Sep 2021 17:01 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
66		 Successor:
PC
 865 48.22% Roderick B. Pratt

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Dingwell, James Walter		 27 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
James Walter Dingwell		 27 Dec 2023

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