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{{short description|Canadian politician}}
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'''Iva Yeo''' (born June 5, 1939 in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]])<ref name=normandin>{{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide |year=1989 |last=Normandin |first=Pierre G}}</ref> is a [[politician]] in Manitoba, [[Canada]].  She was a member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Manitoba]] from 1988 to 1990, representing the [[Winnipeg, Manitoba|Winnipeg]] riding of [[Sturgeon Creek (Manitoba riding)|Sturgeon Creek]] for the [[Manitoba Liberal Party]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/legislature/members/mla_bio_living.html#X,%20Y%20&%20Z |title=MLA Biographies - Living |publisher = The Legislative Assembly of Manitoba |accessdate=2010-05-22 }}</ref><ref name=cbc>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbc.ca/manitobavotes2007/riding/043 |title=Manitoba Votes 2007|publisher= CBC |accessdate=2010-05-22 }}</ref>

==Background==
The daughter of Arthur W.S. Hay and Irene Stewart, she was educated at the [[Winnipeg General Hospital]] and the [[University of Saskatchewan]], and worked as a [[nurse educator]] at the [[St. Boniface School for Practical Nurses]], as well as working in student affairs at [[St. Boniface Schools of Nursing]]. In 1961, she married Dr. Thomas Archie Yeo.<ref name=normandin/>

==Political career==
She served as a school trustee in the 1980s, in the district of Silver Heights-Booth.
In the [[1988 Manitoba general election|provincial election of 1988]], she defeated incumbent [[Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba|Progressive Conservative]] [[Frank Johnston (politician)|Frank Johnston]] by 659 votes in Sturgeon Creek.  The Manitoba Liberals increased their parliamentary representation from one to twenty in this election, and Yeo sat in the official opposition for the next two years.  In the [[1990 Manitoba general election|1990 provincial election]], she lost to Tory [[Gerry McAlpine]] by 769 votes<ref name=cbc/> amid a general loss of support for her party.

==Election results==
{{1988 Manitoba general election/Sturgeon Creek}}
{{1990 Manitoba general election/Sturgeon Creek}}

==References==
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[[Category:Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs]]
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[[Category:Women MLAs in Manitoba]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba]]

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