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♂ Howard Bennett Carr
aliasBennett Carr
Record
9633 · 5645

Anglican     
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 20%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 1 4 5
Birth 21 December 1929 → 94 years + 8 months ago
Lived 81 years + 3 months
1st mandate 4 December 1972 → 51 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 11 months
Death 21 March 2011 → 13 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 36 years + 10 months after 28 April 1974
Special notes
None
 
Howard Bennett Carr (1929–2011)
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — Fair use
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
✗
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Cty Co. West Royalty, Prince Edward Island
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 1 4 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ J. Sinclair Cutcliffe  m 
⊖ Harold P. Smith  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ David H. Ford  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Queens 4th - Councillor
Elig. inc. Votes: 2,028 Partic.: inc. Can.: 2
Provincial
50		 Prince Edward Island
10 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 25810(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
32
PC
 2/2 949 46.79% -130 Winner:
LIB
 1,079 53.21% Harold P. Smith
Queens 4th - Councillor
Elig. 2,341 Votes: 2,143 Partic.: 91.54%
 !!! 
 Can.: 2
Provincial
51		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25842(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
36
PC
 2/2 991 49.04% -39 Winner:
LIB
 1,030 50.96% Harold P. Smith
Queens 2nd - Assemblyman
Elig. 4,286 Votes: 3,906 Partic.: 91.13%
 !!! 
 Can.: 2
Provincial
52		 Prince Edward Island
11 May 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25870(F) — 14 Feb 2022 22:05 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
40
PC
 2/2 1,831 49.02% -73 Winner:
LIB
 1,904 50.98% J. Sinclair Cutcliffe
Queens 2nd - Assemblyman
Elig. 4,286 Votes: 3,663 Partic.: 85.46%
 !!! 
 Can.: 3
Provincial
52		 Prince Edward Island
4 December 1972
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25883(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
PC
 1/3 1,910 52.14% +301 Loser:
LIB
 1,609 43.93% David H. Ford

Service: 1 year 4 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Queens 2nd - Assemblyman
Elig. 5,117 Votes: 4,596 Partic.: 89.82%
 !!! 
 Can.: 3
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
29 April 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25906(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
44
PC
 2/3 2,010 45.97% -117 Winner:
LIB
 2,127 48.65% David H. Ford

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
InMemoriam.ca, H. Bennett Carr		  2 Sep 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Carr, C.L.U., Howard Bennett		  2 Sep 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Bennett H. Carr		  2 Sep 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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