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♂ John M. Potter
aliasJohn M. Potter
Record
50360 · 2571

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 1 2
Birth 11 November 1911 → 112 years + 5 months ago
Lived ± 73 years
First mandate 18 November 1974 → 49 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 63 years
Death c. 1985 → 39 years ago
Exit → Death ± 6 years + 2 months after 22 October 1978
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
New Brunswick 3 11 3 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Edèse J. Bujold  m 
⊕ Allan E. Maher  m 
 		 ⊕ Rayburn D. Doucett  m 
⊖ J. Alfred Roussel  m 
 
Eligible: 13,503 Votes: 32,088 Participation: 89.40% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32560(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
58
PC
 4/7 5,260 49.41% -61 Winner:
LIB
 5,321 49.99% J. Alfred Roussel
Eligible: 6,377 Votes: 5,359 Participation: 84.04% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8497(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
63
PC
 1/4 2,627 49.44% +365 Loser:
LIB
 2,262 42.57% Allan E. Maher

Service: 3 years 11 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,537 Votes: 5,488 Participation: 83.95% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8439(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
66		 Successor:
LIB
 2,726 50.05% Allan E. Maher

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
John Potter (Canadian politician)		 25 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 25 Sep 2023 07:51 (but data presented dynamically)

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