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7 unusual facts about Member of the Legislative Assembly


Allan Studholme

As a result of his involvement in support of striking streetcar workers he was elected to the Ontario legislature from Hamilton East in a 1906 by-election as an Independent Labour MLA becoming the first Labour member of the Ontario legislature.

Andrew Burchill Lynch

Rich Coleman, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fort Langley-Aldergrove, regarded Lynch's newsletter as "required reading" for MLAs.

Assam Legislative Assembly

The legislative assembly comprises 126 Members of Legislative Assembly, directly elected from single-seat constituencies.

Gade Venkata Reddy

He has been elected to serve as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Bapatla Assembly constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India, between 1999 and 2004 and since 2009.

Leopold Macaulay

He was first elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Toronto area riding of York South in 1926.

Nova Scotia Liberal Party

The two parties have a shared membership, and Liberal Members of Parliament often become Liberal Members of the Legislative Assembly, and vice versa.

Umlesh Yadav

She is the first politician to be disqualified by the Election Commission of India for a period of three years for suppression of her election expenses incurred when she was elected as an MLA to the Bisauli constituency in the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, 2007.


Bachchu Kadu

Bachchu Kadu is an Independent MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) from Achalpur, India who had climbed an overhead water tank with his supporters and threatened to jump down if the police apprehended them in December 2006.

Barry Elsby

Barry Elsby is a British born, Falkland Islands doctor and politician, who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency since a by-election in 2011 which filled the seat vacated by Emma Edwards.

Cambridge Bay Airport

On 14 May 2008 a press release from the then Premier of Nunavut, Paul Okalik, and Member of the Legislative Assembly, Keith Peterson, indicated that over the next three years the runway would be widened and lengthened.

David Brand

A member of the Liberal Party, he was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1945 to 1975, and also the 19th and longest-serving Premier of Western Australia, serving four terms from the 1959 to the 1971 elections.

Garry Edwards

Garry Keith Edwards MP is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Swansea in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2011 New South Wales state election.

Gavin Short

Gavin Phillip Short (born 1962) is a Falkland Islands politician who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency since the 2009 general election, winning re-election in 2013.

Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

The governing New Democratic Party (NDP) lost its thin majority in the legislature when one of its Members of the Legislative Aseembly, Jim Walding, moved to an opposition party and voted along with the rest of the opposition against the proposed budget, a matter of confidence and supply.

MacNutt, Saskatchewan

The former District of Landestreu was renamed in 1909 to honour Thomas MacNutt, the area Member of the Legislative Assembly at the time.

Mark Allan Robinson

In the spring of 1998, Parksville-Qualicum Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Paul Reitsma had been caught by Cam Purdy, editor of local Parksville newspaper, Parksville/Qualicum Beach Morning Sun, writing letters to the editor for years praising himself and signing them under fabricated names.

Maurice Morrow, Baron Morrow

He is one of two Democratic Unionist MLAs for Fermanagh and South Tyrone alongside Arlene Foster, and was made a life peer in June 2006.

Melissa James Gibson

The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver.

Mike Rendell

Michael Rendell (born 1944) is a British-born Falkland Islands politician and former Royal Marine who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2005 until 2009.

Mohd Amanullah Khan

Moh Amanullah Khan served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Chandrayangutta constituency in Andhra Pradesh, India, between 1978 and 1999.

Palle Raghunatha Reddy

Palle Raghunatha Reddy is a current Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Andhra Pradesh, state in southern part of India, representing the constituency of Puttaparthi for the Telugu Desam Party.

Phil Gaglardi

Gaglardi was first elected to the legislature in the 1952 election as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) as part of the British Columbia Social Credit League.

Pictou East

Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since the 2013 election is Tim Houston of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia who replaced Clarrie MacKinnon of the New Democratic Party of Nova Scotia.

Pictou West

Its Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) since 2013 has been Karla MacFarlane of the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia (PC).

Rajendra Darda

Rajendra Jawaharlal Darda is a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) from the Aurangabad East constituency and is a Cabinet Minister for Education, Government of Maharashtra in India.

Rajendra Patni

He is a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Karanja constituency from Washim District in Maharashtra.

Randy Thorsteinson

Thorsteinson's new party gained momentum immediately following the 2004 federal election when Edmonton Norwood Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gary Masyk crossed the floor to join the Alberta Alliance, and bring Alberta Alliance representation into the legislature.

Sanikiluaq

The community is in the Hudson Bay Electoral District and the previous member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut is Peter Kattuk who was replaced by Allan Rumbolt in the 2008 general election.

Shamanuru Shivashankarappa

Shamanur Shivashankarappa (Kannada: ಶಾಮನೂರು ಶಿವಶಂಕರಪ್ಪ )(Born: 16th June, 1931, Davangere) is the present Cabinet Minister for Horticulture and Agro Marketing, Government of Karnataka and incumbent Member of the Legislative Assembly of Davanagere South Assembly Constituency.

Sharon Halford

Sharon Halford (born 27 November 1953) is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2009 until 2013.

Slugger O'Toole

Research commissioned in the summer of 2008 by Stratagem in association with ComRes revealed that 96% of the members of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLAs) read the blog "regularly" or "occasionally".

Suresh Shetty

Suresh Hirayenna Shetty is a Member of the Legislative Assembly from the Andheri (east) constituency and Minister of Health in the Maharashtra government of Cabinet rank.

Tiruppattur, Vellore

Tirupattur's population and land area are good enough to have political representations in the state legislature of Tamil Nadu (Member of the Legislative Assembly), and part of Thiruvannamalai constituency for the central/federal legislature of India (Member of Parliament as of 2009 elections).

Victor Dominello

Victor Michael Dominello MP (born 30 July 1967 in Ryde, New South Wales), an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing the electorate of Ryde for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2008, and is the Minister for Citizenship, Communities and Aboriginal Affairs since 2011 in the Coalition state government.

Vision Vancouver

The choices were Gregor Robertson (a local 'Green' businessman, owner of the Happy Planet juice company and a New Democratic Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Vancouver-Fairview), Raymond Louie (serving Vision city councillor), and Allan De Genova (Independent Vancouver Park Board Commissioner who defected from the NPA because of his dislike of Sam Sullivan's leadership).

Yogi Huyghebaert

Delwood Frederick "Yogi" Huyghebaert, O.M.M., C.D. (Lt Colonel-Ret) (born 27 May 1944) is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Wood River, Saskatchewan.


see also

Alex Moore

Alexander Moore, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1919–1926

Alphonse Couturier

Alphonse Couturier (Liberal politician) (1902–1995), a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec for Rivière-du-Loup

Arthur Dixon

Arthur J. Dixon (1919–2007), former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Athanase Laurent Charles Coquerel

After the revolution of February 1848, Coquerel was elected a member of the National Assembly, where he sat as a moderate republican, subsequently becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly following the May 1849 election, won by the conservative Parti de l'Ordre.

Bloy

Harry Bloy (born 1946), BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the province of British Columbia, Canada

Bruce Smith

Bruce Atherton Smith (1937–2006), former member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

Charles French

Charles Daniel French (1884–1954), Canadian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

Charles Woodward

Charles A. Woodward - (1852-1937), Canadian merchant, founder of the Woodward's Department Stores Limited and Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Charlotte-The Isles

Rick Doucet, is the current member of the Legislative Assembly represented this riding.

Coral Harbour

Patterk Netser, former member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Nanulik.

D. K Shivakumar

He is in the Congress Member of the Legislative Assembly from Kanakapura consitituency.

Damodaran

S. Damodaran, Indian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu

Davie

Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for Lillooet (1882-1890) and during that time the eighth Premier of British Columbia, Canada (1887-1889)

Donald Stewart

Donald Morton Stewart (born 1923), former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northwest Territories

Forbes George Vernon

Forbes George Vernon (21 August 1843 – 20 January 1911), Lieutenant (ret.) British Army, was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Canadian province of British Columbia from 1875 to 1882, and from 1886 to 1894, representing the riding of Yale.

Fred Archer

Fred W. Archer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1913–1917

Fremantle state by-election, 2009

The Greens candidate, Adele Carles, won the by-election, and in doing so became the first Greens member of the Legislative Assembly.

George Bryson

George Bryson Sr., a member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, father of the below

George Klein

George Klyne (1828–1875), Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba

Harold Riley

Harold William Hounsfield Riley (1877–1946), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Harry Hands

He was a member of the legislative assembly of the Cape Colony from 1912–1913 and 1916-1918 he served as mayor of Cape Town.

Henry Atkins

Henry B. Atkins former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Herbert Wilfred Herridge

In the 1941 provincial election he won a seat in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly becoming the CCF Member of the Legislative Assembly for Rossland-Trail.

James Durand

His son, James, later also became a member of the Legislative Assembly.

James Foster

James L. Foster, former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1971–1979

John Buckland

John Francis Buckland (1825–1910), Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland

John Downes

John K. Downes, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, 1922–1927

Johnston Parish, New Brunswick

Johnston Parish established in 1839 from Wickham Parish: named for Hugh Johnston (1790-1850), who was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick: his father, Hugh Johnston (1756-1829), was also a Member of the Legislative Assembly.

Joseph Gould

His son Isaac James later served as a member of the legislative assembly for the province of Ontario and in the federal parliament.

Lelant

Philip Christophers, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

Louis Guillet

His sister Marie married Alexis Rivard, who was also a member of the legislative assembly, and his brother Valère represented Saint-Maurice in the legislative assembly.

Nikotimasi Fatafehi Laufilitonga Kakau Vaha'i

Nikotimasi Fatafehi Laufilitonga Kakau Vahaʻi of Tonga (born September 1971), styled simply the Hon. Vaha'i in most references, is the Lord Vaha'i of Fo'ui, as well as a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the Nobles in Tonga, holding one of three such seats for the Nobles of Tongatapu.

Northern Territory general election, 1980

The only independent member of the Legislative Assembly, Dawn Lawrie, retained her seat of Nightcliff.

Peter Baker

Peter Baker (Canadian politician), former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories

Philippe Panet

His brother Louis later became a member of the Canadian Senate and his brother Charles was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.

Razack

K. M. Abdul Razack, Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu

Robert A. Campbell

Robert Adam Campbell, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1894-1899

Ron Huntington

His daughter Vicki Huntington is a current member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia.

Salwa Judum

Mahendra Karma, a Congress Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) and the leader of opposition in the State Legislative Assembly became the public front and took the Bijapur-based movement to Dantewada, Katreli and other parts of the region.

Samuel Barnes

Samuel A. Barnes (1876–1941), former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Sheldon M. Chumir Centre

The facility is named for Sheldon Chumir, a long-time Liberal Party Member of the Legislative Assembly for Alberta who represented constituents in Calgary in the provincial government.

Sudarsanam

D. Sudarsanam was an Indian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Tamil Nadu.

Suvendu Adhikari

Credited as the man who galvanised the people of Nandigram under the umbrella of the Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee, when rumours of land acquisition for a chemical hub had triggered a movement, Suvendu Adhikari was a member of the Legislative Assembly from Contai.

Velshi

Murad Velshi (born 1935), businessman in Africa and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario; father of Ali Velshi