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♂ Gordon Blair
aliasGordon Blair
Record
5218 · 100

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 1 2
Birth 23 December 1919 → 104 years + 4 months ago
Lived 86 years + 5 months
First mandate 25 June 1968 → 55 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 6 months
Death 14 June 2006 → 17 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 33 years + 7 months after 29 October 1972
Special notes
None
 

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 4 4 4

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Walter D. Baker  m 
 		 ⊖ Jean Casselman Wadds  f 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 43,980 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
28		 Ontario
25 June 1968
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 9972(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
48
LIB
 1/3 21,250 48.32% +2,407 Loser:
PC
 18,843 42.84% Jean Casselman Wadds

Service: 4 years 4 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 73,193 Votes: 61,120 Participation: 83.51% Candidacies: 3
Federal
29		 Ontario
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10227(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
52
LIB
 2/3 22,026 36.04% -10,663 Winner:
PC
 32,689 53.48% Walter D. Baker

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Duncan Gordon Blair, Q.C., C.M., M.P.		 28 Jul 2023
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Duncan Gordon Blair, c.r., C.M., député		 28 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
Gordon Blair (politician)		 28 Jul 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 28 Jul 2023 10:35 (but data presented dynamically)

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