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♀ Patricia Janet Mella
aliasPat Mella
Record
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Roman Catholic   ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 1 4
Birth 29 August 1943
Age 80 years + 8 months
First mandate 29 March 1993 → 31 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 49 years + 7 months
 
Mandate ended 20 years + 7 months ago (28 September 2003)
Special notes
None
 
Patricia Janet Mella (1943– )
© Photo PEI Famous 5 — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ Don McDougall (1937–) Brother  
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 10 5 28 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. PE 58–59
PC
 1 Party leader 46–52 15 Jan 1990 — 03 May 1996 6 3 18
2. PE 59
PC
 1 Opposition Leader 49–53 29 Mar 1993 — 17 Nov 1996 3 7 19

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Betty Jean Brown  f 
 		 ⊕ Thomas J. Dunphy  m 
 
Eligible: 8,905 Votes: 7,383 Participation: 82.91% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
58		 Prince Edward Island
29 May 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2458(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
45
PC
 2/2 3,136 43.44% -947 Winner:
LIB
 4,083 56.56% Thomas J. Dunphy
Eligible: 9,831 Votes: 8,215 Participation: 83.56% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
59		 Prince Edward Island
29 March 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2436(F) — 30 Sep 2021 20:18 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
49
PC
 1/3 4,486 55.29% +1,160 Loser:
LIB
 3,326 41.00% Betty Jean Brown

Service: 3 years 7 months 19 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,848 Votes: 3,427 Participation: 89.06% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
60		 Prince Edward Island
18 November 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2391(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
PC
 1/3 2,357 68.98% +1,443 Loser:
LIB
 914 26.75% Mary Hughes

Service: 3 years 4 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,040 Votes: 3,514 Participation: 86.98% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
61		 Prince Edward Island
17 April 2000
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2364(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
PC
 1/3 2,399 68.54% +1,547 Loser:
LIB
 852 24.34% Viola Evans-Murley

Service: 3 years 5 months 11 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,658 Votes: 3,792 Participation: 81.41% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
62		 Prince Edward Island
29 September 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2333(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
60		 Successor:
PC
 2,350 62.12% David T. McKenna

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.])
Mella, M.A., Patricia "Pat" Janet		 11 Apr 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Mella, M.A., Honourable Patricia Janet		 11 Apr 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Patricia (Pat) Janet Mella		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Pat Mella		 11 Apr 2024

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