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♂ Robert Burns
aliasRobert Burns
Record
8378 · 1956

Irish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 3 0 3
Birth 5 September 1936 → 87 years + 8 months ago
Lived 77 years + 8 months
First mandate 29 April 1970 → 54 years + 18 days ago
↳ at age 33 years + 7 months
Death 15 May 2014 → 10 years ago
Exit → Death 34 years + 9 months after 8 August 1979
Special notes
None
 
Robert Burns (1936–2014)
© Photo Le Soleil via La Presse — Fair trade
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
Québec 9 3 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ André Léveillé  m 
 		 ⊖ Samuel Walsh  m 
 
Eligible: 46,950 Votes: 36,234 Participation: 77.18% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
29		 Québec
29 April 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 11138(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
PQ
 1/5 16,012 45.16% +4,605 Loser:
QLP
 11,407 32.17% Jean-Robert Ouellet

Service: 3 years 5 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 32,615 Votes: 24,571 Participation: 75.34% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
30		 Québec
29 October 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 6776(F) — 1 Oct 2022 15:27 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
PQ
 1/7 12,198 50.97% +2,276 Loser:
QLP
 9,922 41.46% Charles LePage

Service: 3 years 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 31,511 Votes: 25,490 Participation: 80.89% Candidacies: 9
Provincial
31		 Québec
15 November 1976
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 4664(F) — 19 Feb 2022 16:14 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
PQ
 1/9 15,390 62.15% +9,074 Loser:
QLP
 6,316 25.51% Gilles Houle
After his election:
8 Aug 1979 42
PQ
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 2 years 8 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 29,066 Votes: 20,808 Participation: 71.59% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
31		 Québec
14 November 1979
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 11312(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
43		 Successor:
QLP
 11,775 58.26% Georges Lalande

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Robert Burns		  7 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Burns (Quebec politician)		  7 May 2024
FR Wikipédia
Robert Burns (homme politique québécois)		  7 May 2024

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