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♀ Janet Corinne Brown
aliasJan Brown
Record
7648 · 798

☆   Croatian-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 1 2
Birth 23 June 1947
Age 76 years + 10 months
First mandate 25 October 1993 → 30 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 46 years + 4 months
 
Mandate ended 26 years + 10 months ago (1 June 1997)
Special notes
None
 
Janet Corinne (Jan) Brown (1947– )
© Photo 1994 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Elected MP for Calgary Southeast along with 51 other Reform Party candidates in the 1993 federal election, Brown drew admiration in 1994 when she placed a rose on the empty desk of rival Bloc Québécois and official opposition leader Lucien Bouchard who was fighting for his life as a result of necrotizing fasciitis. Considered a mod­er­ate, she openly spoke out against the right wing of Reform, behaviour which, in May 1996, led her to being suspended from the party along with two controversial members of that right wing. Sitting as an independent for the remainder of the 35th Parliament, she ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in Calgary Southwest in the 1997 general election against her former leader, Preston Manning, finishing a distant third.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 3 7 6

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Larry R. Heather  m 
⊕ Lee Richardson  m 
 		 ⊕ E. Preston Manning  m 
 
Eligible: 86,430 Votes: 56,255 Participation: 65.09% Candidacies: 7
Federal
35		 Alberta
25 October 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 3150(F) — 30 Jun 2023 08:06 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
46
REF
 1/7 33,564 59.85% +22,277 Loser:
PC
 11,287 20.13% Lee Richardson
After her election:
14 May 1996 48
REF
 →
IREF
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
31 May 1996 48
IREF
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
Service: 3 years 7 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 72,239 Votes: 48,238 Participation: 66.78% Candidacies: 7
Federal
36		 Alberta
2 June 1997
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2850(F) — 30 Jun 2023 22:32 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
49
PC
 3/7 8,617 17.90% -19,295 Winner:
REF
 27,912 57.99% E. Preston Manning

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Ms. Jan Brown, M.P.		 08 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Madame Jan Brown, députée		 08 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Jan Brown		 08 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  8 Apr 2024 22:00 (but data presented dynamically)

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