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♂ Leslie E. Wismer
aliasLeslie E. Wismer
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 2 1 3
Birth 21 February 1909 → 115 years + 2 months ago
Lived 69 years + 4 months
First mandate 4 August 1943 → 80 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 34 years + 5 months
Death 8 July 1978 → 45 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 26 years + 7 months after 21 November 1951
Special notes
None
 

Leslie E. Wismer (1909–1978)
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Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
In 1951, Wismer, an Ontario CCF member, took exception to a $6,000 grant to the Art Gallery of Toronto for the purchase of two busts by Picasso and Matisse, appraising them as showing "just how hideous some things can be."
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 5 3 13 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph McNamara  m 
⊖ William A. Summerville  m 
 		 ⊖ Gordon J. Millen  m 
 
Eligible: 35,567 Votes: 17,403 Participation: 48.93% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
21		 Ontario
4 August 1943
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 34890(F) — 23 Dec 2022 15:09 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
34
CCF
 1/3 7,640 44.15% +218 Loser:
PC
 7,422 42.89% William A. Summerville

Service: 1 year 9 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 40,176 Votes: 26,795 Participation: 66.69% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
22		 Ontario
4 June 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 34981(F) — 14 Oct 2023 15:52 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
36
CCF
 2/5 8,749 32.95% -3,871 Winner:
PC
 12,620 47.53% Gordon J. Millen
Eligible: 40,401 Votes: 26,389 Participation: 65.32% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
23		 Ontario
7 June 1948
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35072(F) — 23 Jul 2023 10:47 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
39
CCF
 1/4 12,429 47.55% +2,159 Loser:
PC
 10,270 39.29% Charles Walton

Service: 3 years 5 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 39,661 Votes: 23,938 Participation: 60.36% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Ontario
22 November 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35165(F) — 24 Dec 2022 10:03 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
42		 Successor:
PC
 10,736 45.57% Robert W. Macaulay

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Leslie Emery Wismer		 07 Jan 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Leslie Emery Wismer		 07 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Leslie Wismer		 07 Jan 2024

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