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♂ Paul Reitsma
aliasPaul Reitsma
Record
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☆   Dutch-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 1 0 1
Birth 22 January 1948
Age 76 years + 3 months
First mandate 28 May 1996 → 27 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 4 months
 
Mandate ended 25 years + 10 months ago (23 June 1998)
Special notes
None
 
Paul Reitsma (1948– )
© Photo 2011 CBC — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Reitsma, a British Columbia Liberal who sat in the legislature from 1996 to 1998, was forced to resign when it was revealed that he would write letters to the local newspaper under the assumed named of Warren Betanko, in which he would praise himself and attack his political opponents. Astonishingly, those letters were handwritten, and an RCMP handwritting expert was able to trace them to Reitsma.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 2 0 25 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Leonard E. Krog  m 
 
 
Eligible: 42,549 Votes: 32,815 Participation: 77.12% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
36		 British Columbia
28 May 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 7971(F) — 25 Jul 2023 19:29 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
LIB
 1/7 13,459 41.19% +483 Loser:
NDP
 12,976 39.72% Leonard E. Krog
After his election:
1 Mar 1998 50
LIB
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
23 Jun 1998 50
IND
 →
Vac.
 Amidst controversy
Service: 2 years 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 43,942 Votes: 26,404 Participation: 60.09% Candidacies: 10
Provincial
36		 British Columbia
14 December 1998
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 10962(F) — 22 Sep 2022 19:34 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
LIB
 13,862 52.61% Judith Reid

Online biographical reference

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Paul Reitsma		 22 Jan 2024

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