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♂ William R. Dick
aliasWilliam R. Dick
Record
16011 · 13706

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 1 0 1
Birth 1 September 1878 → 145 years + 8 months ago
Lived 82 years + 9 months
First mandate 18 July 1928 → 95 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 10 months
Death 1 June 1961 → 62 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 7 months after 1 November 1933
Special notes
None
 
William R. Dick (1878–1961)
© Photo c. 1931 James Skitt Matthews — Public domain
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 5 3 14 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
8 documented challengers
⊖ Dugald Donaghy  m 
⊖ Angus MacInnis  m 
⊖ William C. Shelly  m 
⊖ Nelson Spencer  m 
 		 ⊖ Thomas H. Kirk  m 
⊖ Royal L. (Pat) Maitland  m 
⊖ Helen Smith  f 
⊖ George A. Walkem  m 
 
Eligible: 54,745 Votes: 180,634 Participation: 54.99% Candidacies: 15
Provincial
17		 British Columbia
18 July 1928
General
Plurality-at-large (6)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 29371(F) — 20 Sep 2022 19:59 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
CONS
 4/15 15,968 53.04% +2,792 Loser:
LIB
 13,176 43.77% Dugald Donaghy

Service: 5 years 3 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 29,777 Votes: 41,553 Participation: 69.77% Candidacies: 14
Provincial
18		 British Columbia
1 November 1933
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 29417(F) — 23 Jul 2023 23:10 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
55		 Successor:
CFF
 10,972 52.81% John (Jack) Price

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
William Dick (British Columbia politician)		  2 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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