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♂ Willam J. Woodroffe
aliasWillam J. Woodroffe
Record
66081 · 2600

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 0 3
Birth 13 May 1933 → 90 years + 11 months ago
Lived 70 years + 4 months
First mandate 13 October 1967 → 56 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 34 years + 5 months
Death 26 September 2003 → 20 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 24 years + 11 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 11 0 7 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 47–48
PC
 1 Speaker 39–45 06 Mar 1973 — 22 Oct 1978 5 7 16

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Charles A. McIlveen  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 11,439 Votes: 17,014 Participation: 76.37% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32532(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
34
PC
 2/4 5,033 59.16% +1,492 Loser:
LIB
 3,541 41.62% Fred Cave

Service: 3 years 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,439 Votes: 17,724 Participation: 74.34% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32562(F) — 12 Feb 2022 15:45 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
PC
 2/6 5,200 58.68% +2,098 Loser:
LIB
 3,102 35.00% Fred Cave

Service: 4 years 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,179 Votes: 4,383 Participation: 70.93% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8526(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
PC
 1/3 2,125 48.63% +96 Loser:
LIB
 2,029 46.43% Gordon M. Foster

Service: 3 years 11 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 7,494 Votes: 4,517 Participation: 60.27% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8468(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
45		 Successor:
PC
 2,196 48.82% Beverly J. (Bev) Harrison

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. William Woodroffe		 30 Jul 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. William Woodroffe		 30 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
William J. Woodroffe		 30 Jul 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 30 Jul 2023 18:44 (but data presented dynamically)

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