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♂ Robert Fern Lyons
aliasRobert Lyons
Record
37286 · 14094

Methodist   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 63%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 3 8
Birth 1 July 1856 → 167 years + 10 months ago
Lived 70 years + 5 months
First mandate 23 July 1892 → 131 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 36 years
Death 29 December 1926 → 97 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 5 months after 9 July 1914
Special notes
None
 
Robert Fern Lyons (1856–1926)
© Photo 1902 Representative Men of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — 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
Manitoba 18 0 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 8  
Path points 8  
6 documented challengers
⊖ John Barron  m 
⊖ J.D. Hunt  m 
⊖ Samuel Jacob Thompson  m 
 		 ⊖ John Graham  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ George Rogers  m 
⊖ William Walker  m 
 
Eligible: 1,480 Votes: 1,206 Participation: 81.49% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Manitoba
23 July 1892
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36579(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
CONS
 1/2 644 53.40% +82 Loser:
LIB
 562 46.60% Samuel J. Thompson

Service: 3 years 5 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,509 Votes: 1,172 Participation: 77.67% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Manitoba
15 January 1896
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36625(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
39
CONS
 2/2 501 42.75% -170 Winner:
LIB
 671 57.25% George Rogers
Eligible: 1,897 Votes: 1,524 Participation: 80.34% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36712(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
43
CONS
 1/2 796 52.23% +68 Loser:
LIB
 728 47.77% John G. Barron

Service: 3 years 7 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,913 Votes: 1,694 Participation: 88.55% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36868(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
CONS
 1/2 941 55.55% +188 Loser:
LIB
 753 44.45% John D. Hunt

Service: 3 years 7 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,849 Votes: 1,445 Participation: 78.15% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36917(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
CONS
 1/2 799 55.29% +153 Loser:
LIB
 646 44.71% William Walker

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,842 Votes: 1,529 Participation: 83.01% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36966(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
CONS
 1/2 882 57.68% +235 Loser:
LIB
 647 42.32% Frank Avery

Service: 3 years 11 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,914 Votes: 1,754 Participation: 91.64% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 37014(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
58
CONS
 2/2 843 48.06% -68 Winner:
LIB
 911 51.94% John Graham
Eligible: 1,913 Votes: 1,703 Participation: 89.02% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37068(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
59
CONS
 2/2 770 45.21% -163 Winner:
LIB
 933 54.79% John Graham

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Lyons, Robert Fern		 11 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Lyons, Robert Fern		 11 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Robert Fern Lyons (1856-1926)		 11 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Fern Lyons		 11 May 2024

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