1. Dianne Lynn Watts was born on October 30,1959 and is a former politician in British Columbia, Canada.
17 Facts About Dianne Watts
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Previously, Watts served as the mayor of Surrey, the second-largest city in the province from 2005 to 2014.
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Dianne Watts was elected in 2005 to this office as the city's first female mayor.
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Dianne Watts studied at Mount Pleasant Elementary School and Templeton Secondary School in Vancouver's east side before moving to Kelowna.
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Dianne Watts was a stay-at-home mother with two daughters prior to being a campaign manager for new provincial MLA and family friend Bonnie McKinnon in 1991.
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Dianne Watts later won a seat on city council in 1996 with Doug McCallum's Surrey Electors Team.
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Dianne Watts ran as an independent candidate, defeating incumbent Doug McCallum at the polls on November 19,2005, who had been her political ally as recently as 2003.
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Dianne Watts's election affected regional politics as well, since she replaced McCallum on the board of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.
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Dianne Watts created a political slate called "Surrey First" for the 2008 municipal elections.
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Dianne Watts had been touted as a possible future Premier of British Columbia.
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Dianne Watts was a driving force behind the controversial 2011 Surrey Regional Economic Summit, in which former US presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton were featured speakers.
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At the April 2014 opening ceremony for the new City Hall in Surrey City Centre, Dianne Watts announced that she would not seek re-election as mayor in the November 2014 municipal election.
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Dianne Watts won her first federal election campaign on October 19,2015, and was the only Conservative candidate elected in Surrey's four ridings in the 2015 federal election.
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Dianne Watts announced on September 24,2017, her resignation from the House of Commons in order to seek the leadership of the British Columbia Liberal Party.
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Whilst failing to secure a plurality of votes in any of the rounds, Dianne Watts led the leadership race vote until the fifth ballot when she lost to Andrew Wilkinson.
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Dianne Watts married her first husband in 1977 at the age of 18.
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Dianne Watts spent the next few years travelling to places like Australia, Nepal and South America before returning to British Columbia sometime in the late 1980s.