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♂ Robert Stirton Thornton
aliasRobert Thornton
Record
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Protestant   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 4 2 6
Birth 8 May 1863 → 161 years ago
Lived 73 years + 4 months
First mandate 7 March 1907 → 117 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 9 months
Death 17 September 1936 → 87 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 14 years + 2 months after 17 July 1922
Special notes
None
 
Robert Stirton Thornton (1863–1936)
© Photo 1894 The Canadian Album: Men of Canada or Success by Example 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 11 4 8 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Edward Briggs  m 
⊖ Duncan McLeod  m 
 		 ⊖ William Chalmers  m 
⊖ John Reid  m  (4 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 1,500 Votes: 1,163 Participation: 77.53% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36900(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
LIB
 1/2 602 51.76% +41 Loser:
CONS
 561 48.24% Edward Briggs

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,688 Votes: 1,480 Participation: 87.68% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36949(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
47
LIB
 2/2 737 49.80% -6 Winner:
CONS
 743 50.20% John C.W. Reid
Eligible: 2,248 Votes: 2,050 Participation: 91.19% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36997(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
51
LIB
 1/2 1,127 54.98% +204 Loser:
CONS
 923 45.02% John C.W. Reid

Service: 1 year 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 2,304 Votes: 1,997 Participation: 86.68% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37047(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
LIB
 1/2 1,146 57.39% +295 Loser:
CONS
 851 42.61% John C.W. Reid

Service: 4 years 10 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,362 Votes: 2,691 Participation: 80.04% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37148(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
LIB
 1/2 1,503 55.85% +315 Loser:
CONS
 1,188 44.15% John C.W. Reid

Service: 2 years 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,298 Votes: 2,651 Participation: 80.38% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37196(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
59
LIB
 3/3 810 30.55% -202 Winner:
PROG
 1,012 38.17% Duncan S. McLeod

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Thornton, Robert Stirton M.D.		 12 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Thornton, Robert Stirton (Dr.)		 12 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Robert Stirton Thornton (1863-1936)		 12 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Stirton Thornton		 12 May 2024

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