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♂ Robert J. Higgins
aliasRobert Higgins
Record
27452 · 2603

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 0 3
Birth 13 January 1934
Age 90 years + 3 months
First mandate 13 October 1967 → 56 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 9 months
 
Mandate ended 45 years + 6 months ago (22 October 1978)
Special notes
None
 

No photo available
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 11 0 7 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 47–48
LIB
 1 Party leader 37–44 01 May 1971 — 30 Apr 1978 6 11 29
2. NB 47–48
LIB
 1 Opposition Leader 37–44 01 May 1971 — 30 Apr 1978 6 11 29

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
8 documented challengers
⊖ J. Esmonde Barry  m 
⊖ John D. MacCallum  m 
⊖ George E. McInerney  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Eric L. Teed  m 
 		 ⊕ Michael R. Landers  m 
⊕ J. Lorne McGuigan  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Donald D. Patterson  m 
⊖ Stephen H. Weyman  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 21,929 Votes: 84,947 Participation: 74.94% Candidacies: 8
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32531(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
LIB
 4/8 10,671 50.25% +20 Loser:
PC
 10,651 50.15% H.C. Tracy

Service: 3 years 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 29,264 Votes: 76,430 Participation: 71.12% Candidacies: 13
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32561(F) — 11 Oct 2022 12:54 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
36
LIB
 3/13 9,926 51.95% +393 Loser:
PC
 9,533 49.89% Wallace P. MacMurray

Service: 4 years 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,082 Votes: 5,364 Participation: 66.37% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8529(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
40
LIB
 1/3 3,307 62.14% +1,502 Loser:
PC
 1,805 33.92% Donald S. Greenlaw

Service: 3 years 11 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,019 Votes: 4,237 Participation: 60.36% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
49		 New Brunswick
23 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8471(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
44		 Successor:
LIB
 1,976 47.00% Shirley T. Dysart

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Robert J. Higgins		 27 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Apr 2024 08:37 (but data presented dynamically)

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