Elsie Wayne
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| Member of Parliament for Saint John |
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In office 1993–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Gerald Merrithew |
| Succeeded by | Paul Zed |
| Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Interim |
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In office April 2, 1998 – November 14, 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Jean Charest |
| Succeeded by | Joe Clark |
| Mayor of Saint John, New Brunswick | |
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In office 1983–1993 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Lockhart |
| Succeeded by | Thomas Higgins |
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Elsie Eleanore Fairweather April 20, 1932 Shediac, New Brunswick |
| Died | August 23, 2016 (aged 84) Saint John, New Brunswick |
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| Residence | Saint John, New Brunswick |
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Elsie Eleanore Wayne (née Fairweather; April 20, 1932 – August 23, 2016) was a Canadian politician who served as a Progressive Conservative member of parliament for Saint John from 1993 to 2004. She was born in Shediac, New Brunswick.
In 1977, she was elected to the Saint John municipal council. In 1983, she became the first female mayor of Saint John, and became extremely popular in that city.
In the 1993 federal election, she ran as the governing Progressive Conservative Party's candidate in the riding of Saint John. In this election, the Tories suffered the worst ever defeat for a governing party at the federal level in Canada. Wayne was one of only two Tories elected nationwide, the other being Jean Charest. She was also the only non-Liberal elected in Atlantic Canada that year. She was elected by 4,000 votes, but never faced another contest nearly that close.
In 1998, when Charest resigned the leadership of the PC party to become leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, Wayne was appointed the PC party's interim leader, a post she held until former Prime Minister Joe Clark was elected party leader later that year.
She supported the merger of the Progressive Conservatives (led by Peter MacKay) and the Canadian Alliance (led by Stephen Harper) in 2003.
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