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♂ Francis Daniel Watts
aliasBuck Watts
Record
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Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 1 4
Birth 9 November 1944
Age 79 years + 5 months
First mandate 28 May 2007 → 16 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 62 years + 6 months
 
Mandate ended 5 years + 11 days ago (22 April 2019)
Special notes
None
 
Francis Daniel (Buck) Watts (1944– )
© 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

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. PE 65
LIB
 1 Speaker 70–74 04 May 2015 — 22 Apr 2019 3 11 18

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Mildred A. Dover  f 
 		 ⊖ Elmer E. MacFadyen  m 
 
Eligible: 3,472 Votes: 2,970 Participation: 85.54% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
62		 Prince Edward Island
29 September 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2334(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
58
LIB
 2/3 1,253 42.55% -375 Winner:
PC
 1,628 55.28% Mildred A. Dover
Eligible: 3,600 Votes: 2,855 Participation: 79.31% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
63		 Prince Edward Island
28 May 2007
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2307(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
62
LIB
 1/4 1,577 55.39% +475 Loser:
PC
 1,102 38.71% Elmer E. MacFadyen

Service: 4 years 4 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,710 Votes: 2,701 Participation: 72.80% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
64		 Prince Edward Island
3 October 2011
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 6558(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
66
LIB
 1/5 1,304 48.53% +168 Loser:
PC
 1,136 42.28% Glen Kelly

Service: 3 years 7 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,886 Votes: 2,978 Participation: 76.63% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
65		 Prince Edward Island
4 May 2015
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7201(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
70
LIB
 1/4 1,354 45.65% +528 Loser:
PC
 826 27.85% Darren Creamer

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,100 Votes: 2,479 Participation: 60.46% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
66		 Prince Edward Island
15 July 2019
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 25944(F) — 4 Jul 2022 23:17 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
74		 Successor:
PC
 1,080 43.72% Natalie Jameson

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.])
Watts, Francis Daniel "Buck"		 24 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Buck Watts		 24 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Buck Watts		 24 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 24 Apr 2024 19:54 (but data presented dynamically)

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