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♀ Sarah Jean Lea
aliasJeannie Lea
Record
34825 · 5708

Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 1 0 1
Birth 16 October 1950
Age 73 years + 6 months
First mandate 29 March 1993 → 31 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 42 years + 5 months
 
Mandate ended 27 years + 11 months ago (15 May 1996)
Special notes
Lea's husband, James, is the grandson of Walter Lea, Liberal premier of Prince Edward Island in 1930–31 and 1935 until his death.
 

Sarah Jean Lea (1950– ?)
No photo 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 3 1 16 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Diane D. Griffin  f 
 
 
Eligible: 10,132 Votes: 7,744 Participation: 76.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
59		 Prince Edward Island
29 March 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2424(F) — 3 Nov 2023 06:32 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
LIB
 1/3 3,934 51.52% +634 Loser:
PC
 3,300 43.22% Diane D. Griffin
After her election:
15 May 1996 45
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 3 years 1 month 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,476 Votes: 2,878 Participation: 82.80% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
60		 Prince Edward Island
18 November 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2386(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
46		 Successor:
LIB
 1,348 47.03% J. Paul Connolly

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.])
Lea, Sarah Jean 		11 Apr 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Lea, Sarah Jean "Jeannie"		 11 Apr 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Jeannie Lea		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Jeannie Lea		 11 Apr 2024

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