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♂ Leon B. Rideout
aliasLeon B. Rideout
Record
52604 · 10792

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 1 4
Birth 8 April 1920 → 104 years ago
Lived 67 years
First mandate 18 June 1956 → 67 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 2 months
Death 25 April 1987 → 37 years ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 6 months after 25 October 1970
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
New Brunswick 11 6 10 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ J. Stewart Brooks  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Theodore E. Duffie  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Evérard H. Daigle  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 14,644 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
43		 New Brunswick
18 June 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32476(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
PC
 2/4 4,186 57.17% +1,031 Loser:
LIB
 3,155 43.09% Theodore E. Duffie

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 15,034 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
44		 New Brunswick
27 June 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32493(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
40
PC
 4/4 3,746 49.83% -15 Winner:
LIB
 3,761 50.03% Theodore E. Duffie
Eligible: inc. Votes: 15,527 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
45		 New Brunswick
22 April 1963
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32513(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
43
PC
 1/4 4,053 52.20% +326 Loser:
LIB
 3,727 48.00% Theodore E. Duffie

Service: 4 years 5 months 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,350 Votes: 14,175 Participation: 81.45% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32534(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
PC
 2/4 3,703 52.24% +337 Loser:
LIB
 3,366 47.49% Evérard H. Daigle

Service: 3 years 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,694 Votes: 13,832 Participation: 79.05% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32565(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
PC
 3,307 48.49% Joseph E.M. Ouellette

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Leon Burton Rideout		 30 Sep 2023
EN Wikipedia
Leon B. Rideout		 30 Sep 2023

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