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♀ Margaret Anne Mitchell
aliasMargaret Mitchell
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 4 1 5
Birth 17 July 1925 → 98 years + 9 months ago
Lived 91 years + 7 months
First mandate 22 May 1979 → 44 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 10 months
Death 8 March 2017 → 7 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 23 years + 4 months after 24 October 1993
Special notes
None
 
Margaret Anne Mitchell (1925–2017)
© Photo 1988 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Mitchell, the NDP MP for Vancouver East from 1979 to 1993, was one of the first politicians to raise the issue of violence against women, but when she demanded that the government take action to stop domestic violence, some male MPs in the House laughed. Prior to that, in 1980, after voting against a pay raise for MPs, she donated her additional pay to establish the Margaret Mitchell Fund for Women.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 14 5 0

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
4 documented challengers
⊕ Kimball M. Cariou  m 
⊕ Arthur J. Lee  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Miguel Figueroa  m 
⊕ Anna M. Terrana  f 
 
Eligible: 51,646 Votes: 32,071 Participation: 62.10% Candidacies: 6
Federal
31		 British Columbia
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4363(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
53
NDP
 1/6 13,697 42.71% +1,175 Loser:
LIB
 12,522 39.04% Arthur J. Lee

Service: 8 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 51,646 Votes: 32,718 Participation: 63.35% Candidacies: 7
Federal
32		 British Columbia
18 February 1980
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4081(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
NDP
 1/7 14,245 43.91% +1,266 Loser:
LIB
 12,979 40.01% Arthur J. Lee

Service: 4 years 6 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 50,076 Votes: 36,007 Participation: 71.90% Candidacies: 6
Federal
33		 British Columbia
4 September 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 3796(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
NDP
 1/6 18,464 51.79% +9,420 Loser:
LIB
 9,044 25.37% Shirley M. Wong

Service: 4 years 2 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 39,272 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Federal
34		 British Columbia
21 November 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 3501(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
NDP
 1/8 20,108 51.20% +8,416 Loser:
LIB
 11,692 29.77% Raymond Leung

Service: 4 years 11 months 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 69,381 Votes: 40,123 Participation: 57.83% Candidacies: 13
Federal
35		 British Columbia
25 October 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 3199(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
68
NDP
 2/13 12,339 31.19% -1,898 Winner:
LIB
 14,237 35.98% Anna M. Terrana

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Margaret Anne Mitchell, M.P.		 18 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Margaret Anne Mitchell, députée		 18 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Margaret Mitchell (Canadian politician)		 18 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 18 Apr 2024 22:30 (but data presented dynamically)

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