George Hickes (Manitoba politician)

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2007 Manitoba general election: Point Douglas
George Hickes
28th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
In office
November 18, 1999 October 20, 2011
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic George Hickes 2,66566.36−8.50$12,892.59
Liberal Mary Lou Bourgeois59114.72+0.48$11,443.44
Progressive Conservative Alexa Rosentreter48111.98+3.21$1,180.30
Green Kristen Andrews2135.30$84.55
Communist Darrell Rankin 661.64−0.49$373.89
Total valid votes4,016100.00
Rejected and declined ballots290.72-0.69
Turnout4,04540.14−0.10
Electors on the lists10,077
New Democratic hold Swing -4.49
2003 Manitoba general election : Point Douglas
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic George Hickes 2,87774.86+21.52$10,189.54
Liberal Mary Lou Bourgeois54714.23−7.12$7,991.06
Progressive Conservative Wyatt McIntyre3378.77−10.79$10.68
Communist Darrell Rankin 822.13$376.06
Total valid votes3,843100.00
Rejected and declined ballots551.41+0.48
Turnout3,89840.24−18.84
Electors on the lists9,687
New Democratic hold Swing +14.32
1999 Manitoba general election : Point Douglas
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic George Hickes 3,33853.34-9.69$21,952.00
Liberal Ajay Chopra 1,33621.35-1.71$21,013.00
Progressive Conservative Mary Richard 1,22419.56+7.79$20,221.11
Independent Peter Juba3605.75$2,113.33
Total valid votes6,258100.00
Rejected and declined ballots590.93-0.17
Turnout6,31759.080.85
Electors on the lists10,693
New Democratic hold Swing +3.99
1995 Manitoba general election : Point Douglas
PartyCandidateVotes%±%Expenditures
New Democratic George Hickes 3,09563.03+8.32$15,378.00
Liberal Linda Cantiveros 1,13223.05-7.47$15,916.74
Progressive Conservative Claire Riddle57811.77+0.45$13,389.05
First Peoples Party Lyle Morrisseau1052.14no report filed
Total valid votes4,910100.00
Rejected and discarded ballots551.11-0.27
Turnout4,96558.23-2.70
Electors on lists8,527
New Democratic hold Swing +7.90
1990 Manitoba general election : Point Douglas
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic George Hickes 2,77854.72
Liberal Errol Lewis 1,55030.53
Progressive Conservative Calvin Pompana57511.33
Independent William Hawryluk1082.13
Independent Roy Price661.30
Total valid votes5,077100.00
Rejected ballots711.38
Turnout5,14860.92
Electors on lists8,450

All electoral information is taken from Elections Manitoba. Expenditure entries refer to individual candidate expenses.

Footnotes

  1. "MLA Biographies - Living". The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
  2. "Iqaluit candidate George Hickes Jr. asks voters about their Nunavut priorities". Nunatsiaq News , October 2, 2013.
  3. Frank Landry, "Tootoo's special to speaker", Winnipeg Sun, date not listed. Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Ilene K. Grossman, "Speaker George Hickes", Stateline, Volume 14 Number 1, January 2005.
  5. Scott Edmonds, "Inuit MLA first elected Speaker in Manitoba", Globe and Mail, 19 November 1999, A27.
  6. Donald Campbell, "MLA Hickes says program saved him", Winnipeg Free Press , 15 May 1993, City Page and Alice Krueger, "Axe falls on training program", Winnipeg Free Press, 7 March 1995, City Page.
  7. Treena Khan, "City heritage cite celebrates history", Winnipeg Free Press, 15 May 1994, City Page.
  8. The Speaker of the House: George Hickes, Manitoba legislature, accessed 2006.
  9. Pauline Comeau, Elijah, (Vancouver & Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1993), p. 194.
  10. David Kuxhaus, "New Speaker sets historic precedents", Winnipeg Free Press, 19 November 1999, A3.
  11. Grossman, "Speaker George Hickes".
  12. "Aboriginal party in Manitoba would be open to all", Financial Post, 30 October 1994, p. 6.
  13. Doug Nairne, "MLA leaves safe riding for run at Liberals'", Winnipeg Free Press, 27 April 1999, A5.
  14. Kuxhaus, "New Speaker sets historic precedents".
  15. Hansard volume LVIX No. 1-1:30p.m. Wednesday, June 6, 2007; "And so it begins" [editorial], Winnipeg Free Press, 7 June 2007, A10.
  16. Mia Rabson, "Speaker still has whale of a job", Winnipeg Free Press, 7 June 2007, A6.
  17. "George Hickes won't seek re-election after 21 years as NDP MLA". CTV Winnipeg . 10 February 2011. Archived from the original on 18 October 2023.
Political offices
Preceded by Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
November 18, 1999  October 20, 2011
Succeeded by
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
Preceded by
Riding created
Member of the Legislative Assembly for Point Douglas
September 11, 1990  October 3, 2011
Succeeded by