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♂ John Parmenter Robarts
aliasJohn Robarts
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 5 0 5
Birth 11 January 1917 → 107 years + 3 months ago
Lived 65 years + 9 months
First mandate 22 November 1951 → 72 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 34 years + 10 months
Death 18 October 1982 → 41 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 10 years + 11 months after 20 October 1971
Special notes
None
 
John Parmenter Robarts (1917–1982)
© Photo 1960 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Robarts committed suicide. Premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971, he had been suffering from depression as a result of the 1977 suicide of his son Timothy and a series of debilitating strokes. He had divorced in the early 1970s and remarried to a woman 28 years his junior.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 19 10 24 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. ON 26–28
PC
 1 Party leader 44–54 25 Oct 1961 — 11 Feb 1971 9 3 17
2. ON 26–28
PC
 1 Premier 44–54 08 Nov 1961 — 28 Feb 1971 9 3 20

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Campbell C. Calder  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 48,623 Votes: 29,691 Participation: 61.06% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Ontario
22 November 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35143(F) — 24 Dec 2022 00:38 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
34
PC
 1/3 13,926 47.38% +3,112 Loser:
LIB
 10,814 36.79% Campbell C. Calder

Service: 3 years 6 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 31,110 Votes: 19,043 Participation: 61.21% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Ontario
9 June 1955
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35238(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
PC
 1/3 9,022 47.70% +1,648 Loser:
LIB
 7,374 38.99% Clarence M. Peterson

Service: 4 years 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 31,271 Votes: 16,974 Participation: 54.28% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Ontario
11 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35349(F) — 24 Dec 2022 11:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
PC
 1/3 9,253 54.97% +3,288 Loser:
LIB
 5,965 35.44% Joseph Beechie

Service: 4 years 3 months 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 32,005 Votes: 18,426 Participation: 57.57% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Ontario
25 September 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35455(F) — 24 Dec 2022 15:47 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
46
PC
 1/3 12,531 68.61% +8,279 Loser:
LIB
 4,252 23.28% Campbell C. Calder

Service: 4 years 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 47,134 Votes: 26,802 Participation: 56.86% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Ontario
17 October 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14010(F) — 26 Feb 2022 13:02 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
50
PC
 1/3 13,087 49.14% +4,100 Loser:
LIB
 8,987 33.74% Frank Carter

Service: 4 years 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 56,545 Votes: 41,330 Participation: 73.09% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Ontario
21 October 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14126(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
54		 Successor:
PC
 17,266 41.90% Gordon W. Walker

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
John Parmenter Robarts		 09 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
John Parmenter Robarts		 09 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Robarts		 09 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
John Robarts		 09 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Apr 2024 22:54 (but data presented dynamically)

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