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♂ Robert A. Larter
aliasRobert A. Larter
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Saskatchewan 2 0 2
Birth 16 January 1925 → 99 years + 3 months ago
Lived 90 years + 11 months
First mandate 11 June 1975 → 48 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 4 months
Death 26 December 2015 → 8 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 35 years + 2 months after 10 October 1980
Special notes
None
 
Robert A. Larter (1925–2015)
© Photo Hall Funeral Services — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Five years after being first elected, Larter, a Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative, left office at age 55 due to health reasons. But he only died 35 years later, at age 90.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Saskatchewan 5 3 29 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Ian H. MacDougall  m 
 		 ⊕ Kim Thorson  m 
 
Eligible: 9,373 Votes: 8,345 Participation: 89.03% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Saskatchewan
11 June 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 9096(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
50
PC
 1/3 4,354 52.35% +1,855 Loser:
NPD
 2,499 30.05% Kim Thorson

Service: 3 years 4 months 6 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,583 Votes: 8,053 Participation: 84.03% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
19		 Saskatchewan
18 October 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 9127(F) — 12 Mar 2022 11:34 ET
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 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
PC
 1/3 4,376 54.52% +1,673 Loser:
NPD
 2,703 33.67% Norman Blondeau
After his election:
10 Oct 1980 55
NPD
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 11 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,060 Votes: 7,932 Participation: 78.85% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
19		 Saskatchewan
26 November 1980
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NPD  Majority
ID: 13247(F) — 12 Oct 2021 22:53 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
55		 Successor:
NPD
 2,918 36.79% John O. Chapman

Online biographical references (4)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Hall Funeral Services, In memory of Robert "Bob" Austin Larter		 10 Dec 2023
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: Members of the Legislative Assembly
Larter, Robert Austin 1925 – 2015 (p. 21)		 10 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Robert Austin Larter		 10 Dec 2023
FR Wikipédia
Robert Austin Larter		 10 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  3 Jan 2024 14:21 (but data presented dynamically)

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