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♂ Robert Toupin
aliasRobert Toupin
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 1 2
Birth 20 January 1949
Age 75 years + 3 months
First mandate 4 September 1984 → 39 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 35 years + 7 months
 
Mandate ended 35 years + 5 months ago (20 November 1988)
Special notes
None
 
Robert Toupin (1949– )
© Photo 1984 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Toupin just never seemed to find a party that fit him. After being a worker for the Québec Liberal Party, he joined Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives and won a seat in the 1984 federal election. Critical of his government's policy, he sat as an independent MP from May 1986, then joined the NDP in December. But ten months later, he sat again as an independent after claiming that the NDP had been infiltrated by communists. Declining an invitation to join the Rhinoceros Party, he ran as an independent in 1988, and finished third.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 4 2 16

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph-Roland Comtois  m 
 		 ⊕ Jean-Marc Robitaille  m 
 
Eligible: 99,162 Votes: 74,302 Participation: 74.93% Candidacies: 5
Federal
33		 Québec
4 September 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4017(F) — 29 Jun 2023 23:24 ET
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 → New to Parliament
Age
35
PC
 1/5 43,822 60.30% +24,782 Loser:
LIB
 19,040 26.20% Joseph-Roland Comtois
After his election:
14 May 1986 37
PC
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
16 Dec 1986 37
IND
 →
NDP
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
26 Oct 1987 38
NDP
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
Service: 4 years 2 months 16 days (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 66,998 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Federal
34		 Québec
21 November 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 3722(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
39
IND
 3/5 10,390 15.51% -24,955 Winner:
PC
 35,345 52.76% Jean-Marc Robitaille

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Robert Toupin, M.P.		 07 Mar 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Robert Toupin, député		 07 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Toupin		 07 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Robert Toupin (homme politique)		 07 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  7 Mar 2024 20:56 (but data presented dynamically)

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