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♀ Darlene Compton
aliasDarlene Compton
Record
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Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 In office
Prince Edward Island
Government
 Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 2 5
Birth 21 January 1961
Age 63 years + 3 months
First mandate 4 May 2015 → 8 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 54 years + 3 months
 
 
Special notes
None
 
Darlene Compton (1961– ) 200x212
© 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 8 11 27 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. PE 67
PC
 1 Speaker 62–63 12 May 2023 — 0 11 20

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Charles E. McGeoghegan  m  (3 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 3,283 Votes: 2,287 Participation: 69.66% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
63		 Prince Edward Island
15 October 2007
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25934(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
46
PC
 2/5 828 36.20% -431 Winner:
LIB
 1,259 55.05% Charles E. McGeoghegan
Eligible: 3,146 Votes: 2,486 Participation: 79.02% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
64		 Prince Edward Island
3 October 2011
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 6537(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
50
PC
 2/4 1,127 45.54% -8 Winner:
LIB
 1,135 45.86% Charles E. McGeoghegan
Eligible: 3,130 Votes: 2,676 Participation: 85.50% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
65		 Prince Edward Island
4 May 2015
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7180(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
54
PC
 1/4 1,203 45.12% +108 Loser:
LIB
 1,095 41.07% Charles E. McGeoghegan

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,831 Votes: 2,977 Participation: 77.71% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
66		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 2019
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 25939(F) — 22 Sep 2021 16:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
PC
 1/3 1,545 52.53% +764 Loser:
GRN
 781 26.56% James Sanders

Service: 3 years 11 months 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,933 Votes: 2,596 Participation: 66.01% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
67		 Prince Edward Island
3 April 2023
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 39004(F) — 21 Nov 2023 05:56 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
PC
 1/4 1,510 58.69% +990 Loser:
LIB
 520 20.21% Katherine Bryson

Service: 1 year 29 days (Gov't)

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.])
Compton, Darlene		 21 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Darlene Compton		 21 Jan 2024
FR Wikipédia
Darlene Compton		 21 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 21 Jan 2024 10:00 (but data presented dynamically)

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