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♂ Robert George Wilson
aliasRobert Wilson
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 1 3
Birth 2 November 1934
Age 89 years + 5 months
First mandate 25 June 1975 → 48 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 40 years + 7 months
 
Mandate ended 42 years + 10 months ago (17 June 1981)
Special notes
None
 
Robert George Wilson (1934– )
© Photo 1980 Facebook — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Manitoba Progressive Conservative MLA from 1975 to 1981, Wilson lost his seat of Wolseley after he was convicted of conspiracy to import and traffic in marijuana.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 5 11 22 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph R. (Bud) Boyce  m 
⊖ D'Arcy C.H. McCaffrey  m 
 		 ⊖ Murdoch MacKay  m  (2 runoffs)
⊕ Norma McCormick  f 
 
Eligible: 8,343 Votes: 5,721 Participation: 68.57% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9235(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
38
PC
 2/4 1,520 26.83% -1,490 Winner:
NDP
 3,010 53.12% Joseph R. (Bud) Boyce
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,812 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
25 June 1975
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 10969(F) — 20 Feb 2024 18:43 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
40
PC
 1/4 2,072 35.65% +202 Loser:
LIB
 1,870 32.17% D'Arcy C.H. McCaffrey

Service: 2 years 3 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,167 Votes: 6,873 Participation: 74.98% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9293(F) — 20 Feb 2024 18:43 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
PC
 1/3 2,763 41.01% +74 Loser:
NDP
 2,689 39.91% Murdoch MacKay
After his election:
20 Nov 1980 46
PC
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance ()
17 Jun 1981 46
IND
 →
Vac.
 Amidst controversy
Service: 3 years 8 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,669 Votes: 9,097 Participation: 77.96% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9350(F) — 20 Feb 2024 18:43 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
NDP
 4,370 48.36% Myrna A. Phillips

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Wilson, Robert George		 21 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Wilson, Robert George		 21 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Wilson (Manitoba politician)		 21 Apr 2024

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Rev.: 21 Apr 2024 14:57 (but data presented dynamically)

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