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♂ Stanley Ronald Basford
aliasStanley Ronald Basford
Record
2958 · 37

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 5 1 6
Birth 22 April 1932 → 92 years ago
Lived 72 years + 9 months
First mandate 8 April 1963 → 61 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 30 years + 11 months
Death 31 January 2005 → 19 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 25 years + 8 months after 21 May 1979
Special notes
None
 
Stanley Ronald Basford (1932–2005)
© Photo 1974 House of Commons (Canada) — 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
Canada 16 1 8

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 28–29
LIB
 1 Minister of State/responsible 39–42 28 Jan 1972 — 07 Aug 1974 2 6 10
2. CA 28–29
LIB
 1 Minister of State/responsible 39–42 28 Jan 1972 — 07 Aug 1974 2 6 10
3. CA 30
LIB
 1 Minister 42–43 08 Aug 1974 — 25 Sep 1975 1 1 17
4. CA 30
LIB
 1 Minister 43–46 26 Sep 1975 — 02 Aug 1978 2 10 7
5. CA 30
LIB
 1 ✓ Minister 45 28 Jan 1978 — 01 Feb 1978 0 0 4
 1. Urban Affairs
 2. Housing [Urban Affairs]
 3. National Revenue
 4. Justice and Attorney General
 5. Solicitor General [Int]

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas Rodney Berger  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Raymond Parkinson  m 
 		 ⊖ David W. Kilgour  m 
⊖ John Russell Taylor  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 29,148 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Federal
25		 British Columbia
18 June 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 24534(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to Parliament
Age
30
LIB
 2/4 9,079 31.15% -94 Winner:
NDP
 9,173 31.47% Thomas R. Berger
Eligible: inc. Votes: 32,001 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Federal
26		 British Columbia
8 April 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 24798(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
30
LIB
 1/5 12,048 37.65% +2,050 Loser:
NDP
 9,998 31.24% Thomas R. Berger

Service: 2 years 6 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 27,926 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Federal
27		 British Columbia
8 November 1965
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 25067(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
33
LIB
 1/4 10,807 38.70% +1,574 Loser:
NDP
 9,233 33.06% Raymond Parkinson

Service: 2 years 7 months 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 45,323 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Federal
28		 British Columbia
25 June 1968
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 9907(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
36
LIB
 1/4 25,426 56.10% +14,275 Loser:
NDP
 11,151 24.60% William H. Deverell

Service: 4 years 4 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 68,748 Votes: 46,777 Participation: 68.04% Candidacies: 7
Federal
29		 British Columbia
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10164(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
LIB
 1/7 19,341 41.35% +5,185 Loser:
PC
 14,156 30.26% John McDonald

Service: 1 year 8 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 68,748 Votes: 45,677 Participation: 66.44% Candidacies: 6
Federal
30		 British Columbia
8 July 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10428(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
LIB
 1/6 19,064 41.74% +1,921 Loser:
PC
 17,143 37.53% Doug Davis

Service: 4 years 10 months 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 70,355 Votes: 44,541 Participation: 63.31% Candidacies: 6
Federal
31		 British Columbia
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4362(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
LIB
 15,430 34.64% Arthur Phillips

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Stanley Ronald Basford, P.C., Q.C., M.P.		 17 Mar 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Stanley Ronald Basford, C.P., c.r., député		 17 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Ron Basford		 17 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 17 Mar 2024 01:39 (but data presented dynamically)

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