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♂ Paul Creaghan
aliasPaul Creaghan
Record
13364 · 2590

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 1 3
Birth 27 March 1937
Age 87 years + 1 month
First mandate 26 October 1970 → 53 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 6 months
 
Mandate ended 45 years + 6 months ago (22 October 1978)
Special notes
None
 
Paul Creaghan (1937– )
© Photo Adam Huras / Telegraph Journal via creaghans.com — 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
New Brunswick 7 11 25 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 47–48
PC
 1 Minister 36–39 03 Dec 1973 — 16 Mar 1977 3 3 13
 1. Attorney General

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
6 documented challengers
⊕ Arthur H. Buck  m 
⊖ Lestock G. DesBrisay  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert V. Lenihan  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Léonide H. Cyr  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Jean-Paul LeBlanc  m 
⊖ Charles H. Thomas  m 
 
Eligible: 25,609 Votes: 64,151 Participation: 82.78% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32527(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
30
PC
 4/6 10,916 51.05% -35 Winner:
LIB
 10,951 51.21% Léonide H. Cyr
Eligible: 27,876 Votes: 67,223 Participation: 85.23% Candidacies: 9
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32557(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
PC
 1/9 12,203 54.66% +2,291 Loser:
LIB
 9,912 44.40% Léonide H. Cyr

Service: 4 years 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,554 Votes: 7,651 Participation: 72.49% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8516(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
PC
 1/2 3,961 52.39% +362 Loser:
LIB
 3,599 47.61% Stuart G. Stratton

Service: 3 years 11 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,017 Votes: 7,356 Participation: 73.44% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8457(F) — 9 Apr 2022 17:46 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
41		 Successor:
PC
 4,211 57.91% Mabel M. DeWare

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Paul Creaghan		 27 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Mar 2024 19:53 (but data presented dynamically)

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