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♂ Alphonsus Faour
aliasFonse Faour
Record
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☆   Lebanese-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 2 1 3
Birth 16 November 1951
Age 72 years + 5 months
First mandate 16 October 1978 → 45 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 26 years + 11 months
 
Mandate ended 44 years + 2 months ago (17 February 1980)
Special notes
None
 
Alphonsus (Fonse) Faour (1951– )
© Photo 1979 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Faour was elected the first NDP MP from Newfoundland in a 1978 by-election in Humber—Port au Port—St Barbe and re-elected in 1979 in the general election, but was defeated in 1980 by Brian Tobin, a Liberal. Appointed to the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2003, he was the judge named to the 2022 federal electoral district redistribution commission for that province.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 1 4 1

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NL 38
NDP
 1 Party leader 28–29 01 Apr 1980 — 07 Nov 1981 1 7 6

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊕ Brian V. Tobin  m 
 
 
Eligible: 42,533 Votes: 28,559 Participation: 67.15% Candidacies: 3
Federal
30		 Newfoundland and Labrador
16 October 1978
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10894(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
26
NDP
 1/3 12,386 43.37% +2,064 Loser:
LIB
 10,322 36.14% George Billard

Service: 7 months 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 48,986 Votes: 30,595 Participation: 62.46% Candidacies: 3
Federal
31		 Newfoundland and Labrador
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4396(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
27
NDP
 1/3 15,872 51.88% +7,090 Loser:
LIB
 8,782 28.70% George Billard

Service: 8 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 48,986 Votes: 29,677 Participation: 60.58% Candidacies: 3
Federal
32		 Newfoundland and Labrador
18 February 1980
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4114(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
28
NDP
 2/3 9,535 32.26% -3,635 Winner:
LIB
 13,170 44.56% Brian V. Tobin

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Alphonsus Faour		 07 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Alphonsus Faour		 07 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Fonse Faour		 07 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  7 Apr 2024 01:42 (but data presented dynamically)

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