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♂ Frank R. Branch
aliasFrank R. Branch
Record
6890 · 2591

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 7 0 7
Birth 7 May 1944 → 79 years + 11 months ago
Lived 74 years + 5 months
First mandate 26 October 1970 → 53 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 26 years + 5 months
Death 22 October 2018 → 5 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 1 month after 17 September 2006
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 28 1 18 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 51
LIB
 1 Speaker 43–47 27 Oct 1987 — 22 Sep 1991 3 10 26

Electoral history

Races 7  
Path points 9  
6 documented challengers
⊕ Joel E. Bernard  m 
⊖ Roland C. Boudreau  m 
⊖ Bernard A. Jean  m 
 		 ⊖ J. Omer Boudreau  m 
⊖ Adjutor A. Ferguson  m 
⊕ André Robichaud  m 
 
Eligible: 26,048 Votes: 78,875 Participation: 87.95% Candidacies: 11
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32553(F) — 12 Feb 2022 15:33 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
26
LIB
 5/11 10,552 66.89% +5,377 Loser:
PC
 5,175 32.81% Camille Losier

Service: 4 years 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,395 Votes: 4,443 Participation: 82.35% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8517(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
30
LIB
 1/3 2,488 56.60% +727 Loser:
PC
 1,761 40.06% Edmond E. Landry

Service: 3 years 11 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,220 Votes: 5,180 Participation: 83.28% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8458(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
34
LIB
 1/3 3,156 61.69% +2,054 Loser:
PC
 1,102 21.54% Hilaire Brideau

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,710 Votes: 5,881 Participation: 87.65% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
50		 New Brunswick
12 October 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1777(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
LIB
 1/4 3,510 59.99% +2,008 Loser:
PC
 1,502 25.67% Patrice Battah

Service: 5 years (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,529 Votes: 6,471 Participation: 85.95% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
51		 New Brunswick
13 October 1987
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1719(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LIB
 1/3 5,086 79.00% +4,057 Loser:
PC
 1,029 15.98% Claude J. Albert

Service: 3 years 11 months 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,003 Votes: 6,395 Participation: 79.91% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
52		 New Brunswick
23 September 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1661(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
LIB
 1/4 3,752 59.56% +2,580 Loser:
NDP
 1,172 18.60% Karen A. McCrea

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,416 Votes: 6,521 Participation: 69.25% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
53		 New Brunswick
11 September 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 626(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
51		 Successor:
LIB
 3,715 57.64% Alban Landry
Eligible: 9,864 Votes: 6,658 Participation: 67.50% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 New Brunswick
9 June 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 186(F) — 12 Feb 2022 17:15 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
59
LIB
 1/3 3,498 53.06% +1,298 Loser:
PC
 2,200 33.37% Joel E. Bernard
After his election:
13 Jan 2006 61
LIB
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (remained in opposition)
Service: 3 years 3 months 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,074 Votes: 5,843 Participation: 64.39% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
56		 New Brunswick
18 September 2006
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 130(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
62		 Successor:
LIB
 2,844 49.20% Cheryl Lavoie

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Frank Branch		 20 Sep 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Frank Branch		 20 Sep 2023
EN Wikipedia
Frank Branch		 20 Sep 2023
FR Wikipédia
Frank Richard Branch		 20 Sep 2023

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