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♂ W. DeCosta Young
aliasW. DeCosta Young
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 1 4
Birth 1 April 1919 → 105 years ago
Lived 86 years + 8 months
First mandate 13 October 1967 → 56 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 6 months
Death 16 December 2005 → 18 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 1 month after 22 October 1978
Special notes
None
 

W. DeCosta Young
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Family tie with other documented individual
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Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 11 0 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
11 documented challengers
⊖ G. William N. Cockburn  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Alfred H. Hawkins  m  (2 runoffs)
⊕ Sheldon A. Lee  m 
⊖ Gale S. McLaughlin  m 
⊖ Leon G. Small  m 
⊖ Kenneth J. Webber  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Lorne B. Groom  m 
⊖ Henry G. Irwin  m 
⊖ Leland W. McGaw  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John E. Rigby  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ R.D. Caldwell Stewart  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 46,384 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
45		 New Brunswick
22 April 1963
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32501(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
44
PC
 7/8 5,587 48.18% -327 Winner:
LIB
 5,914 51.00% Leon G. Small
Eligible: 13,635 Votes: 43,970 Participation: 84.71% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32522(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
PC
 4/8 5,587 50.82% +230 Loser:
LIB
 5,357 48.73% Arthur Giddins

Service: 3 years 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,988 Votes: 42,096 Participation: 83.65% Candidacies: 9
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32550(F) — 29 Dec 2022 15:52 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
PC
 4/9 5,785 54.97% +1,147 Loser:
LIB
 4,638 44.07% Robert W. Brown

Service: 4 years 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,237 Votes: 2,446 Participation: 75.56% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8493(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
PC
 1/3 1,211 50.06% +83 Loser:
LIB
 1,128 46.63% Sheldon A. Lee

Service: 3 years 11 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,531 Votes: 2,643 Participation: 74.85% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8435(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
59		 Successor:
LIB
 1,404 53.71% Sheldon A. Lee

Online biographical reference

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DeCosta Young		 06 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  6 Mar 2024 19:18 (but data presented dynamically)

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