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♀ Beatrice Ann Firth
aliasBea Firth
Record
19859 · 7107

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Yukon 4 1 5
Birth 27 January 1946 → 78 years + 3 months ago
Lived 62 years + 4 months
First mandate 7 June 1982 → 41 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 4 months
Death 20 June 2008 → 15 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 11 years + 8 months after 29 September 1996
Special notes
None
 
Beatrice Ann (Bea) Firth (1946–2008)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Yukon — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
In 1991, along with Alan Nordling, Firth did not agree with the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party being renamed the Yukon Party, so they left the caucus and sat as independent MLAs. Both ran as such and won in the 1992 general election, although unofficially they referred to themselves as the Independent Alliance Party. By the 1996 general election, Nordling had accepted the name change and ran under that banner, but lost. Firth, on the other hand, had still not accepted the change and declined to run.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Yukon 14 3 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Maurice J. Byblow  m 
⊕ Ronald S. Veale  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Paul Thériault  m 
 
Eligible: 1,496 Votes: 871 Participation: 58.22% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
24		 Yukon
9 March 1981
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27135(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:43 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
35
PC
 2/3 335 38.51% -50 Winner:
LIB
 385 44.25% Ronald S. Veale
Eligible: 1,630 Votes: 1,264 Participation: 77.55% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
25		 Yukon
7 June 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27150(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:43 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
PC
 1/3 562 44.50% +93 Loser:
LIB
 469 37.13% Ronald S. Veale

Service: 2 years 11 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,444 Votes: 1,058 Participation: 73.27% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
26		 Yukon
13 May 1985
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 27166(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
PC
 1/3 627 59.60% +367 Loser:
NDP
 260 24.71% Betty Irwin

Service: 3 years 9 months 6 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,521 Votes: 1,173 Participation: 77.12% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
27		 Yukon
20 February 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 27184(F) — 28 Feb 2022 10:43 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
PC
 1/3 648 55.53% +208 Loser:
NDP
 440 37.70% John Sheppard
After her election:
15 Jun 1991 45
PC
 →
IAP
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 3 years 7 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,175 Votes: 968 Participation: 82.38% Candidacies: 4
Territorial
28		 Yukon
19 October 1992
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  YP  Minority
ID: 27200(F) — 28 Feb 2022 10:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
IND
 1/4 384 39.71% +91 Loser:
YP
 293 30.30% Dale Stokes
After her election:
20 Oct 1992 46
IND
 →
IAP
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 3 years 11 months 10 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,111 Votes: 852 Participation: 76.69% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
29		 Yukon
30 September 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 27217(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:44 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
LIB
 476 57.70% Susan J. Edelman

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Bea Firth		 24 Apr 2024
EN Yukon Legislature Speaks
Beatrice (Bea) Firth		 24 Apr 2024

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