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♂ Richard B. Holden
aliasRichard B. Holden
Record
27915 · 2248

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 25%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Québec 1 2 3
Total 1 3 4
Birth 7 July 1931 → 92 years + 9 months ago
Lived 74 years + 2 months
First mandate 25 September 1989 → 34 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 58 years + 2 months
Death 18 September 2005 → 18 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 11 years + 7 days after 11 September 1994
Special notes
None
 
Richard B. Holden (1931–2005)
© Photo National Assembly, Québec — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Holden was one of the four men elected in the 1989 Québec general election under the banner of the federalist English-rights Equality Party. Expelled from the party in October 1991 for balking at party discipline, he sat as an independent until, to the shock of his constituents, he joined the Parti Québécois in August 1992. Suffering from chronic back pain, he committed suicide by jumping from the eighth-floor balcony of his apartment.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Québec 4 11 16 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Louis R. Desmarais  m 
⊖ John Richard Hyde  m 
 		 ⊕ Henri-François Gautrin  m 
 
Eligible: 32,552 Votes: 19,218 Participation: 59.04% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Québec
14 November 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 17022(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
31
IND
 2/3 4,255 22.40% -8,859 Winner:
QLP
 13,114 69.03% John Richard Hyde
Eligible: 69,287 Votes: 56,464 Participation: 81.49% Candidacies: 9
Federal
31		 Québec
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4527(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
47
PC
 2/9 6,208 10.99% -37,086 Winner:
LIB
 43,294 76.68% Louis R. Desmarais
Eligible: 29,894 Votes: 21,969 Participation: 73.49% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
34		 Québec
25 September 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  QLP  Majority
ID: 2177(F) — 22 Jul 2023 11:28 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
58
EP
 1/6 8,801 40.64% +513 Loser:
QLP
 8,288 38.27% William Cosgrove
After his election:
11 Oct 1991 60
EP
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
13 Aug 1992 61
IND
 →
PQ
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
Service: 4 years 11 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 41,967 Votes: 34,366 Participation: 81.89% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
35		 Québec
12 September 1994
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PQ  Majority
ID: 1923(F) — 24 Jul 2021 09:35 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
63
PQ
 2/8 11,963 35.49% -6,429 Winner:
QLP
 18,392 54.57% Henri-François Gautrin

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
FR Quebec National Assembly
Richard B. Holden		 13 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Richard Holden (Canadian politician)		 13 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Richard Holden		 13 Feb 2024

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