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♂ Bas Balkissoon
aliasBas Balkissoon
Record
2459 · 2818

Trinidadian-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 4 0 4
Birth c. 1952
Age ± 72 years
First mandate 24 November 2005 → 18 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age ± 53 years
 
Mandate ended 8 years + 1 month ago (22 March 2016)
Special notes
None
 
Bas Balkissoon (c.1952– )
© Photo 2015 TorontoExpert — licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
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
Ontario 10 3 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Raymond S.J. Cho  m 
⊕ Neethan Shan  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Cynthia Lai  f 
 
Eligible: 85,804 Votes: 16,603 Participation: 19.35% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
38		 Ontario
24 November 2005
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 12032(F) — 17 Nov 2022 23:49 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±53
LIB
 1/7 9,327 56.51% +5,059 Loser:
PC
 4,268 25.86% Cynthia Lai

Service: 1 year 10 months 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 83,086 Votes: 34,746 Participation: 41.82% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
39		 Ontario
10 October 2007
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 5296(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±55
LIB
 1/6 22,307 65.06% +17,347 Loser:
PC
 4,960 14.47% Horace Gooden

Service: 3 years 11 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 85,338 Votes: 36,605 Participation: 42.89% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
40		 Ontario
6 October 2011
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 6644(F) — 5 Feb 2022 14:08 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±59
LIB
 1/7 15,237 41.87% +2,149 Loser:
NDP
 13,088 35.97% Neethan Shan

Service: 2 years 8 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 88,592 Votes: 42,062 Participation: 47.48% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
41		 Ontario
12 June 2014
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7733(F) — 27 Feb 2022 11:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±62
LIB
 1/5 16,095 38.71% +3,076 Loser:
NDP
 13,019 31.31% Neethan Shan
After his election:
22 Mar 2016 ±64
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 9 months 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 90,118 Votes: 25,243 Participation: 28.01% Candidacies: 11
Provincial
41		 Ontario
1 September 2016
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 14721(F) — 13 Jan 2024 08:16 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±64		 Successor:
PC
 9,687 38.57% Raymond S.J. Cho

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Bas Balkissoon		 20 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Bas Balkissoon		 20 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Bas Balkissoon		 20 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Bas Balkissoon		 20 Feb 2024

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