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♂ Claude Ryan
aliasClaude Ryan
Record
54508 · 2010

Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Québec 4 0 4
Birth 26 January 1925 → 99 years + 3 months ago
Lived 79 years
First mandate 30 April 1979 → 44 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 54 years + 3 months
Death 9 February 2004 → 20 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 9 years + 4 months after 11 September 1994
Special notes
None
 
Claude Ryan (1925–2004)
© Photo National Assembly, Québec — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 15 4 9 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. QC 31–32
QLP
 1 Party leader 53–57 15 Apr 1978 — 09 Aug 1982 4 3 25
2. QC 31–32
QLP
 1 Opposition Leader 54–57 01 May 1979 — 09 Aug 1982 3 3 8

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Maurice Dumas  m 
 		 ⊖ Samuel Walsh  m 
 
Eligible: 34,610 Votes: 27,072 Participation: 78.22% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Québec
30 April 1979
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 11309(F) — 20 Apr 2024 10:12 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
54
QLP
 1/4 16,600 64.40% +9,233 Loser:
PQ
 7,367 28.58% Charles Roy

Service: 1 year 11 months 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 34,187 Votes: 28,007 Participation: 81.92% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
32		 Québec
13 April 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 2181(F) — 9 Sep 2021 22:19 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
56
QLP
 1/5 15,895 57.23% +4,996 Loser:
PQ
 10,899 39.24% Maurice Dumas

Service: 4 years 7 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 35,726 Votes: 26,563 Participation: 74.35% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 Québec
2 December 1985
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 1932(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
QLP
 1/4 17,220 65.65% +9,476 Loser:
PQ
 7,744 29.52% Daniel Mayer

Service: 3 years 9 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 38,242 Votes: 28,094 Participation: 73.46% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
34		 Québec
25 September 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 2057(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
64
QLP
 1/3 14,187 51.91% +5,098 Loser:
PQ
 9,089 33.26% Alain Gérard

Service: 4 years 11 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 44,509 Votes: 36,388 Participation: 81.75% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
35		 Québec
12 September 1994
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 1807(F) — 20 Feb 2022 11:14 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
69		 Successor:
QLP
 15,272 42.59% Régent L. Beaudet

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Claude Ryan		 11 Feb 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Ryan, Claude		 11 Feb 2024
FR Quebec National Assembly
Claude Ryan		 11 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Claude Ryan		 11 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Claude Ryan		 11 Feb 2024

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