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♂ Bernard Richard
aliasBernard Richard
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 4 1 5
Birth 11 April 1951
Age 73 years
First mandate 23 September 1991 → 32 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 40 years + 5 months
 
Mandate ended 20 years + 5 months ago (25 November 2003)
Special notes
None
 
Bernard Richard (1951– )
© Photo 2016 Bernard Richard via Times Colonist — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Elections or appointments outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick
Mun./Co. Council Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 12 1 29 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 53
LIB
 1 ✓ Minister 45–46 20 Mar 1997 — 22 Jul 1997 0 4 2
2. NB 54
LIB
 1 ✓ Party leader 49–51 21 Mar 2001 — 11 May 2002 1 1 20
3. NB 54
LIB
 1 ✓ Opposition Leader 49–51 21 Mar 2001 — 11 May 2002 1 1 20
 1. Attorney General [Int]

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Azor LeBlanc  m 
 
 
Eligible: 8,729 Votes: 7,457 Participation: 85.43% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
48		 New Brunswick
18 November 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 8532(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
23
PA
 3/4 283 3.83% -4,121 Winner:
LIB
 4,404 59.66% Azor LeBlanc
Eligible: 12,290 Votes: 9,918 Participation: 80.70% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
52		 New Brunswick
23 September 1991
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1675(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
40
LIB
 1/4 7,298 74.10% +6,058 Loser:
PC
 1,240 12.59% Emile Goguen Dupré

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,415 Votes: 8,615 Participation: 75.47% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
53		 New Brunswick
11 September 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 640(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
LIB
 1/3 6,963 81.80% +5,957 Loser:
PC
 1,006 11.82% Jean-Claude Bourque

Service: 3 years 8 months 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,855 Votes: 9,372 Participation: 79.06% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
54		 New Brunswick
7 June 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 585(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
LIB
 1/3 5,422 58.33% +2,182 Loser:
PC
 3,240 34.86% Odette Babineau

Service: 4 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,839 Votes: 9,910 Participation: 77.19% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 New Brunswick
9 June 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 212(F) — 12 Feb 2022 17:19 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
LIB
 1/3 6,464 65.69% +3,401 Loser:
PC
 3,063 31.13% Odette Babineau
After his election:
25 Nov 2003 52
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 5 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,316 Votes: 9,155 Participation: 68.75% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
55		 New Brunswick
4 October 2004
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 10938(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
53		 Successor:
LIB
 5,042 55.61% Victor E. Boudreau

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Bernard Richard		 11 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Bernard Richard		 11 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 11 Apr 2024 07:54 (but data presented dynamically)

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