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♂ Robert Allan Lyons
aliasGus Lyons
Record
37285 · 13735

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 1 0 1
Birth 8 July 1890 → 134 years + 2 months ago
Lived 94 years + 5 months
1st mandate 20 June 1924 → 100 years + 3 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 11 months
Death 27 December 1984 → 39 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 56 years + 5 months after 17 July 1928
Special notes
None
 
Robert Allan (Gus) Lyons (1890–1984)
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Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 4 0 27 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph Clearihue  m 
⊖ Reginald Hayward  m 
⊖ John Oliver  m 
 		 ⊖ James Hawthornthwaite  m 
⊖ Joshua Hinchcliffe  m 
⊖ Harold Twigg  m 
 
Victoria City
Elig. 22,195 Votes: 51,675 Partic.: 58.21%
 !!! 
 Can.: 16
Provincial
16		 British Columbia
20 June 1924
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 29284(F) — 1 Jun 2024 12:52 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
LC
 4/16 5,120 39.63% +982 Loser:
LIB
 4,138 32.03% Melbourne Raynor

Service: 4 years 27 days (Oppo.)
Victoria City
Elig. 23,070 Votes: 57,708 Partic.: 62.54%
 !!! 
 Can.: 12
Provincial
17		 British Columbia
18 July 1928
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 29372(F) — 26 Jul 2023 23:42 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
38		 Successor:
CONS
 7,232 50.13% Harold D. Twigg

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
MAJ Robert Allan "Gus" Lyons		  9 Sep 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Allan Gus Lyons		  9 Sep 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Sep 2024 23:51 (but data presented dynamically)

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