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♂ David Robert Blake
aliasDave Blake
Record
5271 · 3797

Protestant   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 0 5
Birth 20 March 1925 → 99 years + 3 months ago
Lived 82 years + 11 months
First mandate 16 November 1971 → 52 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 46 years + 7 months
Death 25 February 2008 → 16 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 19 years + 10 months after 25 April 1988
Special notes
None
 
David Robert Blake (1925–2008)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair use
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
Manitoba 16 5 4 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Dennis Heeney  m 
 
 
Eligible: 8,285 Votes: 7,147 Participation: 86.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
16 November 1971
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13942(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
PC
 1/3 3,532 50.39% +1,184 Loser:
NDP
 2,348 33.50% Emil Shellborn

Service: 1 year 7 months 11 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,729 Votes: 7,248 Participation: 83.03% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9203(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
PC
 1/3 3,777 52.28% +1,069 Loser:
NDP
 2,708 37.49% Lawrence Bell

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,003 Votes: 6,979 Participation: 77.52% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9260(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
PC
 1/4 3,912 56.13% +1,601 Loser:
NDP
 2,311 33.16% John Martens

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,260 Votes: 7,581 Participation: 67.33% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9317(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
PC
 1/2 4,160 55.05% +763 Loser:
NDP
 3,397 44.95% Garry Grant

Service: 4 years 4 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,457 Votes: 7,946 Participation: 69.35% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9376(F) — 12 Aug 2023 22:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
PC
 1/4 3,316 41.77% +947 Loser:
NDP
 2,369 29.84% Garry Grant

Service: 2 years 1 month 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,756 Votes: 8,478 Participation: 72.12% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Manitoba
26 April 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 9433(F) — 12 Aug 2023 22:48 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
63		 Successor:
PC
 3,669 43.36% Harold Gilleshammer

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Blake, David Robert		 20 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Blake, David Robert		 20 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
David Robert "Dave" Blake (1925-2008)		 20 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Dave Blake		 20 May 2024

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