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♀ Paula Jean Biggar
aliasPaula Biggar
Record
4786 · 5717

Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 1 4
Birth 9 May 1955
Age 68 years + 11 months
First mandate 28 May 2007 → 16 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 52 years
 
Mandate ended 5 years + 10 days ago (22 April 2019)
Special notes
None
 
Paula Jean Biggar (1955– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Prince Edward Island — 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 11 10 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Trish Altass  f 
⊕ Hilton MacLennan  m 
 		 ⊕ Philip W. Brown  m 
 
Eligible: 3,715 Votes: 2,787 Participation: 75.02% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
63		 Prince Edward Island
28 May 2007
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2322(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
LIB
 1/2 1,599 58.06% +444 Loser:
PC
 1,155 41.94% Philip W. Brown

Service: 4 years 4 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,436 Votes: 2,463 Participation: 71.68% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
64		 Prince Edward Island
3 October 2011
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 6559(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
LIB
 1/2 1,390 57.27% +353 Loser:
PC
 1,037 42.73% Jim Henwood

Service: 3 years 7 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,455 Votes: 2,688 Participation: 77.80% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
65		 Prince Edward Island
4 May 2015
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7202(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
LIB
 1/4 1,147 42.96% +337 Loser:
PC
 810 30.34% Ryan Williams

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,093 Votes: 3,110 Participation: 75.98% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
66		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 2019
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 25958(F) — 3 Apr 2023 20:20 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
63
LIB
 3/4 882 28.54% -219 Winner:
GRN
 1,101 35.63% Trish Altass

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid [Eds.])
Biggar, Paula Jean		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Paula Biggar		 11 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Paula Biggar		 11 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 11 Apr 2024 21:42 (but data presented dynamically)

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