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♂ Earle Albert Rayfuse
aliasEarle Rayfuse
Record
51699 · 4192

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 0 2
Birth 16 October 1930 → 93 years + 6 months ago
Lived 67 years + 2 months
First mandate 6 September 1988 → 35 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 57 years + 10 months
Death 7 January 1998 → 26 years + 3 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

No photo available
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 9 4 0 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊕ J. Gregory Kerr  m 
 
 
Eligible: 9,333 Votes: 7,242 Participation: 77.60% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
55		 Nova Scotia
6 September 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1472(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
57
LIB
 1/3 3,519 48.93% +331 Loser:
PC
 3,188 44.33% Graham Smith

Service: 4 years 8 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 14,066 Votes: 11,243 Participation: 79.93% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
56		 Nova Scotia
25 May 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 1420(F) — 8 Feb 2022 21:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
LIB
 1/3 7,022 62.89% +3,634 Loser:
PC
 3,388 30.34% J. Gregory Kerr
After his election:
7 Jan 1998 67
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 4 years 7 months 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,900 Votes: 9,413 Participation: 67.72% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
57		 Nova Scotia
24 March 1998
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 1316(F) — 21 May 2022 13:52 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
67		 Successor:
LIB
 3,448 36.96% Laurence E. (Laurie) Montgomery

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Rayfuse, Earle Albert (p. 236)		 23 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Earle Rafuse		 23 Apr 2024

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