Clive Tanner (January 7, 1934 – September 9, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1991 to 1996, as a British Columbia Liberal Party member for the constituency of Saanich North and the Islands.[1]
Clive Tanner | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Yukon Territorial Council | |
| In office 1970–1974 | |
| Preceded by | Ken McKinnon |
| Succeeded by | riding redistributed |
| Constituency | Whitehorse North |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia | |
| In office 1991–1996 | |
| Preceded by | first member |
| Succeeded by | Murray Coell |
| Constituency | Saanich North and the Islands |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 7, 1934 Edmonton, Middlesex, England |
| Died | September 9, 2022 (aged 88) Sidney, British Columbia, Canada |
| Political party | British Columbia Liberal Party |
Tanner previously lived in Yukon, where he was a member of the Yukon Territorial Council in the 1970s[2] and served as Minister of Health.[3] After the territory introduced partisan elections to the new Legislative Assembly of Yukon in 1977, Tanner ran as the Yukon Liberal Party candidate for Whitehorse Porter Creek West in the 1978 territorial election, but was not elected to the legislature.
He subsequently lived in Sidney, British Columbia, where he owned bookstores in Sidney and Victoria.[4] He was a candidate in the BC Liberal Party's 1987 leadership race to succeed Art Lee,[4] but he withdrew from the race in August after sustaining a leg injury.[5]
Tanner died on September 9, 2022, at his home in Sidney, aged 88.[6]
Electoral record edit
| 1991 British Columbia general election: Saanich North and the Islands | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| Liberal | Clive Tanner | 13,633 | 52.53 | |||||
| New Democratic | Elsie McMurphy | 8,745 | 33.70 | |||||
| Social Credit | Richard Holmes | 2,917 | 11.24 | |||||
| Reform | Don Hutchings | 557 | 2.15 | |||||
| Family Coalition | Thomas Aussenegg | 99 | 0.38 | |||||
| Total valid votes | 25,951 | 100.00 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 307 | 1.17 | ||||||
| Turnout | 26,258 | 82.31 | ||||||
References edit
- ^ Guide Parlementaire Canadien. 1993. ISBN 9780921925316.
- ^ "Two former members defeated as Yukon elects new councillors". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 1970.
- ^ "B.C. a polarized province despite NDP win". Montreal Gazette, October 19, 1991.
- ^ a b "Businessman in Liberal race". Vancouver Sun, April 29, 1987.
- ^ "Leadership may be one-man race". The Globe and Mail, August 27, 1987.
- ^ Depner, Wolf (September 12, 2022). "Clive Tanner, former MLA and Sidney entrepreneur, dies at the age of 88". Victoria News.
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