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♂ Barry W. Hicken
aliasBarry W. Hicken
Record
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Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 2 5
Birth 8 August 1946
Age 77 years + 8 months
First mandate 21 April 1986 → 38 years + 13 days ago
↳ at age 39 years + 8 months
 
Mandate ended 27 years + 5 months ago (17 November 1996)
Special notes
None
 

Barry W. Hicken (1946– ?)
No image available
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 10 6 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Patrick G. Binns  m 
 		 ⊖ Lowell S. Johnston  m 
 
Eligible: 2,090 Votes: 1,817 Participation: 86.94% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
56		 Prince Edward Island
27 September 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2530(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
36
LIB
 2/2 856 48.28% -61 Winner:
PC
 917 51.72% Lowell S. Johnston
Eligible: 1,998 Votes: 1,914 Participation: 95.80% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
57		 Prince Edward Island
21 April 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2498(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
LIB
 1/2 1,013 54.23% +158 Loser:
PC
 855 45.77% Edwin McKie

Service: 3 years 1 month 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,042 Votes: 1,790 Participation: 87.66% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
58		 Prince Edward Island
29 May 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2466(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
LIB
 1/2 1,218 69.20% +676 Loser:
PC
 542 30.80% Dorothy MacKenzie

Service: 3 years 9 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,995 Votes: 1,757 Participation: 88.07% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
59		 Prince Edward Island
29 March 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2416(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
LIB
 1/2 1,202 70.37% +696 Loser:
PC
 506 29.63% Wesley Stead

Service: 3 years 7 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,713 Votes: 2,457 Participation: 90.56% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
60		 Prince Edward Island
18 November 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2395(F) — 30 Sep 2021 20:19 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
50
LIB
 2/3 1,022 41.83% -287 Winner:
PC
 1,309 53.58% Patrick G. Binns

Online biographical references (4)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid [Eds.])
Hicken, Barry Wayne		 26 Dec 2023
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Hicken, Barry W.		 26 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Barry W. Hicken		 26 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Barry Hicken		 26 Dec 2023

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