Inky Mark to Retire
Thanks to a reader for passing along this news from this morning's Winnipeg Free Press:
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- Dauphin – Swan River – Marquette, NB - Long-time Conservative M.P. Inky Mark has announced his retirement at the next election, the Free Press' Mia Rabson is reporting this morning. A former mayor of Dauphin, he was first elected to the Commons as a Reform M.P. in 1997 with just 35% of the vote, but increased his vote share in each election since, obtaining some 61% of the vote in 2008. Conservatives will be looking for a replacement candidate (and obviously Mark's announced retirement has the immediate effect of reducing their nominated count by one). The riding was held for one term by the Liberals in 1993, and for one term by the NDP in 1980, but has otherwise stayed in conservative if not Conservative hands the rest of the time since then.
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Labels: 41st General Election Nominations, Conservatives, Retiring Incumbents
posted by The Pundits' Guide at
9:30 AM
2 Comments:
not really that surprised to see that Inky mark is retiring as i had read an article somewhere and it had mentioned he had some health problems and not been in the house much this session . so not running in the next election is not a huge surprise . since its such a conservative riding you have to think the conservative nomination here will be pretty competitive with the ndp's also being more competitive than usual just cause the seat will be vacant .
Hi Anon, That would be my impression as well. You might be interested to see the perspective of an NDP blogger, The Jurist at Accidental Deliberations, who wrote on this same topic last night. I haven't seen anything else written as yet, but if others have references, please feel free to post here.
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