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♂ Gordon Lank
aliasGordon Lank
Record
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United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 40%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Prince Edward Island 2 2 4
Total 2 3 5
Birth 17 November 1941 → 82 years + 5 months ago
Lived 80 years + 1 month
First mandate 23 April 1979 → 45 years + 10 days ago
↳ at age 37 years + 5 months
Death 13 January 2022 → 2 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 35 years + 8 months after 20 April 1986
Special notes
None
 
Gordon Lank (1941–2022)
© Photo 2022 Federico Cahis / CBC — 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 6 11 26 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Catherine S. Callbeck  f 
⊕ Gordon MacInnis  m 
 		 ⊖ David H. Ford  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 6,214 Votes: 5,433 Participation: 87.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4765(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
36
PC
 2/3 2,586 48.25% -60 Winner:
LIB
 2,646 49.37% David H. Ford
Eligible: 6,546 Votes: 5,609 Participation: 85.69% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4733(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
37
PC
 1/3 3,008 54.22% +696 Loser:
LIB
 2,312 41.67% David H. Ford

Service: 3 years 5 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,499 Votes: 6,104 Participation: 81.40% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
56		 Prince Edward Island
27 September 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2515(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
PC
 1/2 3,380 56.40% +767 Loser:
LIB
 2,613 43.60% Ernest Smith

Service: 3 years 6 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,875 Votes: 6,978 Participation: 88.61% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Prince Edward Island
21 April 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2483(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
44
PC
 2/3 3,173 45.81% -220 Winner:
LIB
 3,393 48.99% Gordon MacInnis
Eligible: inc. Votes: 18,075 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
34		 Prince Edward Island
21 November 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 3651(F) — 30 Jan 2022 16:25 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
47
PC
 2/3 7,260 40.17% -2,121 Winner:
LIB
 9,381 51.90% Catherine S. Callbeck

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Salwire (15 January 2022), Obituaries: Gordon Lank		 26 Dec 2023
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Lank, Gordon		 26 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Gordon Lank		 26 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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