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♂ James Robert Laxer
aliasJim Laxer
Record
34751 · 14894

Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Birth 22 December 1941 → 82 years + 6 months ago
Lived 76 years + 2 months
Only run 8 July 1974 → 49 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 32 years + 6 months
Death 23 February 2018 → 6 years + 3 months ago
 
Special notes
One of the founders of The Waffle, a radical wing of Canada's NDP in the late 1960s and early 1970s that es­poused Canadian nationalism and solidarity with Quebec's sovereignty movement.
 
James Robert Laxer (1941–2018)
© Photo 2012 CBC — Fair use
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path point 1  
1 documented challenger
⊖ James Fleming  m 
 
 
Eligible: 72,177 Votes: 53,391 Participation: 73.97% Candidacies: 7
Federal
30		 Ontario
8 July 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10561(F) — 1 Oct 2021 14:16 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
32
IND
 4/7 674 1.27% -27,401 Winner:
LIB
 28,075 52.93% James S.C. Fleming

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
James Laxer		  9 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 May 2024 22:33 (but data presented dynamically)

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