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♂ Robert Colin Anderson
aliasBob Anderson
Record
980 · 3842

  
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth 5 May 1939
Age 85 years
First mandate 11 October 1977 → 46 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 5 months
 
Mandate ended 42 years + 6 months ago (16 November 1981)
Special notes
None
 
Robert Colin Anderson (1939– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Springfield, Manitoba (1968–1972)
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 4 1 5 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Andrue J. Anstett  m 
 		 ⊖ René E. Toupin  m 
 
Eligible: 12,952 Votes: 10,561 Participation: 81.54% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9277(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
PC
 1/3 5,843 55.45% +1,848 Loser:
NDP
 3,995 37.91% René E. Toupin

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,880 Votes: 10,600 Participation: 76.37% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9334(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
42
PC
 2/4 4,833 45.70% -470 Winner:
NDP
 5,303 50.14% Andrue J. Anstett

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Anderson, Robert		  5 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Anderson, Robert		  5 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Bob Anderson (politician)		  5 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  5 May 2024 00:48 (but data presented dynamically)

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