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♂ Robert G. Smellie
aliasRobert G. Smellie
Record
57371 · 14126

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 2 4
Birth 23 August 1923 → 100 years + 8 months ago
Lived 82 years + 2 months
First mandate 14 May 1959 → 64 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 35 years + 8 months
Death 29 October 2005 → 18 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 4 months after 22 June 1966
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
Manitoba 7 1 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Rodney S. Clement  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Michael J. Sotas  m 
 		 ⊖ Arnold G. Minish  m 
 
Eligible: 6,510 Votes: 5,287 Participation: 81.21% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37636(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
34
PC
 2/3 2,102 39.91% -130 Winner:
LIBP
 2,232 42.38% Rodney S. Clement
Eligible: 6,418 Votes: 5,221 Participation: 81.35% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37693(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
35
PC
 1/3 2,239 43.05% +224 Loser:
LIBP
 2,015 38.74% Rodney S. Clement

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,152 Votes: 4,825 Participation: 78.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37755(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
PC
 1/3 2,676 55.97% +975 Loser:
LIB
 1,701 35.58% E. Victor Fulton

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,173 Votes: 4,775 Participation: 77.35% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13823(F) — 20 Mar 2022 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
42
PC
 2/3 2,078 43.78% -145 Winner:
LIB
 2,223 46.83% Rodney S. Clement

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Smellie, Robert Gordon Q.C.		 23 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Smellie, Robert Gordon, c.r.		 23 Aug 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Robert Gordon Smellie (1923-2005)		 23 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Robert Smellie		 23 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 23 Aug 2023 19:59 (but data presented dynamically)

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