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♂ R. Ernest Richard
aliasR. Ernest Richard
Record
52431 · 10870

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 6 0 6
Birth 1 May 1922 → 101 years + 11 months ago
Lived 84 years + 1 month
First mandate 28 June 1948 → 75 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 26 years + 1 month
Death 25 June 2006 → 17 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 35 years + 8 months after 25 October 1970
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 22 3 22 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 44
LIB
 1 Speaker 38–40 17 Nov 1960 — 21 Apr 1963 2 5 4

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
12 documented challengers
⊖ J. Omer Boudreau  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Joseph E. Connolly  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Adjutor A. Ferguson  m 
⊖ Gérard Haché  m 
⊖ Fernand H. Lanteigne  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harry H. Williamson  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Roland C. Boudreau  m 
⊖ J. André Doucet  m 
⊖ J. Michel Fournier  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Bernard A. Jean  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ J.V. Claude Savoie  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick C. Young  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacies: 5
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32430(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
26
LIB
 4/5 By acclamation

Service: 4 years 2 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 110,478 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 15
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32448(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
30
LIB
 2/15 13,179 59.64% +4,804 Loser:
PC
 8,375 37.90% Ralph A. Burns

Service: 3 years 8 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 107,745 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 10
Provincial
43		 New Brunswick
18 June 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32465(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
34
LIB
 1/10 13,163 61.08% +4,157 Loser:
PC
 9,006 41.79% Fernand H. Lanteigne

Service: 4 years 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 111,786 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 10
Provincial
44		 New Brunswick
27 June 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32482(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
LIB
 1/10 14,897 66.63% +7,028 Loser:
PC
 7,869 35.20% Fernand H. Lanteigne

Service: 2 years 9 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 107,842 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 10
Provincial
45		 New Brunswick
22 April 1963
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32502(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
LIB
 4/10 13,844 64.19% +5,776 Loser:
PC
 8,068 37.41% Elizabeth Coughlan

Service: 4 years 5 months 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 23,921 Votes: 91,696 Participation: 82.35% Candidacies: 10
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32523(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
LIB
 5/10 11,281 61.51% +4,705 Loser:
PC
 6,576 35.86% Bert Ferguson

Service: 3 years 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 26,048 Votes: 78,875 Participation: 87.95% Candidacies: 11
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32553(F) — 12 Feb 2022 15:33 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
48		 Successor:
LIB
 10,552 66.89% Frank R. Branch

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Ernest Richard		 03 Oct 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Ernest Richard		 03 Oct 2023
EN Wikipedia
Ernest Richard		 03 Oct 2023
FR Wikipédia
Ernest Richard		 03 Oct 2023

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