Herold Leonhard Driedger (March 28, 1942 – October 1, 2024) was a politician in the

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of Manitoba. He was a member of the

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from 1988 to 1990, representing the Winnipeg riding of Niakwa for the

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. Driedger worked as a teacher before entering public life. He first sought election to the Manitoba legislature in the 1986 provincial election, running for Sidney Green's Progressive Party in the riding of

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. He received only 240 votes, as against 4810 for the winning candidate, New Democrat

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. In the 1988 provincial election, he ran as a Liberal in Niakwa and defeated incumbent Progressive Conservative

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by 1354 votes. The Liberals increased their parliamentary representation from one to twenty in this election, and Driedger sat in the official opposition benches for the next two years. In the 1990 election, he was defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate

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in the redistributed riding of

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by 47 votes, amid a general loss of support for the Liberal Party. He has not sought a return to political life since then. In 1989-90, Driedger served as the first vice-president of the Canadian Council of Public Accountants (the president was

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, who was later a

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MP in the

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). He is also a member of the Canadian Prostate Cancer Network.

Election results

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Driedger, Herold 1942 births 2024 deaths Canadian people of German descent Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs Politicians from Winnipeg 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba