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♀ Hilda Pauline Watson
aliasHilda Watson
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
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Yukon 3 1 4
Birth 13 January 1922 → 102 years + 3 months ago
Lived 75 years + 6 months
First mandate 8 September 1970 → 53 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 7 months
Death 14 July 1997 → 26 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 7 months after 19 November 1978
Special notes
None
 
Hilda Pauline Watson (1922–1997)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Yukon — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ Wade Istchenko Grandson  
 
Well that's interesting!
Watson was the first woman leader of a political party in Canada (and the Yukon). The 1978 general election was the first partisan election in the territory. While her Progressive Conservative Party won a majority government, she herself lost her seat in Kluane by 38 votes while an independent conservative candidate won 49. Perhaps that is why we forget that she was the first woman to lead a party?
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Yukon 7 8 7 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. YT 23
PC
 1 Party leader 55–56 01 Jan 1978 — 27 Nov 1978 0 10 26

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Al Falle  m 
⊖ Alice McGuire  f 
 		 ⊖ John O. Livesey  m  (4 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 619 Votes: 423 Participation: 68.34% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
22		 Yukon
8 September 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Majority
ID: 30348(F) — 17 Jan 2023 17:20 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
IND
 1/2 314 75.30% +211 Loser:
IND
 103 24.70% John O. Livesey

Service: 4 years 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 602 Votes: 427 Participation: 70.93% Candidacies: 5
Territorial
23		 Yukon
7 October 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Majority
ID: 30338(F) — 17 Jan 2023 18:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
IND
 1/5 123 28.87% +17 Loser:
IND
 106 24.88% John O. Livesey
After her election:
2 May 1975 53
IND
 →
Vac.
 Amidst controversy
Service: 6 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 571 Votes: 415 Participation: 72.68% Candidacies: 4
Territorial
23		 Yukon
3 November 1975
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Majority
ID: 30355(F) — 17 Jan 2023 18:51 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
IND
 1/4 178 43.41% +52 Loser:
IND
 126 30.73% John O. Livesey

Service: 3 years 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 454 Votes: 389 Participation: 85.68% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
24		 Yukon
20 November 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27123(F) — 28 Dec 2021 21:19 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent → (Party leader)
Age
56
PC
 2/3 150 38.76% -38 Winner:
LIB
 188 48.58% Alice McGuire

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Hilda Watson		 14 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Hilda Watson		 14 Apr 2024
EN Yukon Legislature Speaks
Hilda Watson		 14 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 14 Apr 2024 13:47 (but data presented dynamically)

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