- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1419
Delves, Margaret Jean (Peggy)
(1943 – )- Nationality Australian
- Born 1 January, 1943
- Occupation Political candidate
Summary
Margaret Delves was a candidate for election only once, but had a long association with politics. She was an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Murrumbidgee in 1984.
Details
Peggy Delves was born and bred in the Griffith area. She was electorate secretary for A. R. L. Gordon, MLA for Murrumbidgee 1976-84. Upon his retirement, she was preselected by the ALP to contest the seat. Peggy is married, and she and her husband run a farm growing wheat, rice, citrus and grapes.
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Delves, Margaret Jean (1943-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-698069
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html