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♂ Robert Alexander Gillespie
aliasRobert Alexander Gillespie
Record
23032 · 14703

Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 0 1 1
Total 0 2 2
Birth 24 January 1881 → 143 years + 3 months ago
Lived 84 years + 4 months
First run 28 June 1927 → 96 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 46 years + 5 months
Death 31 May 1965 → 58 years + 11 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Robert Alexander Gillespie (1881–1965)
© Photo via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
23 documented challengers
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ John K. Downes  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m 
⊖ John T. Haig  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ H. Ralph Maybank  m 
⊖ Arthur E. Moore  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m 
⊖ Hugh A. Robson  m 
⊖ Francis Sedziak  m 
⊖ William V. Tobias  m 
 		 ⊖ Duncan Cameron  m 
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m 
⊖ Theodore A. Hunt  m 
⊖ Walter J. Lindal  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m 
⊖ Leslie A. Mutch  m 
⊖ John Queen  m 
⊖ Edith F. Rogers  f 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
 
Eligible: 67,124 Votes: 50,706 Participation: 62.30% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37331(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
46
CONS
 22/25 941 1.86% -1,295 Winner:
PROG
 2,236 4.41% Edward W. Montgomery
Eligible: 31,160 Votes: 24,735 Participation: 79.38% Candidacies: 5
Federal
18		 Manitoba
14 October 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22632(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
54
REC
 4/5 2,216 8.96% -8,655 Winner:
LIB
 10,871 43.95% Leslie A. Mutch

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Robert Alexander Gillespie (1881-1965)		 06 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  6 Apr 2024 14:41 (but data presented dynamically)

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