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♂ Gordon L. Gosse
aliasGordon L. Gosse
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 4 1 5
Birth 22 August 1955 → 68 years + 8 months ago
Lived 64 years + 2 months
First mandate 5 August 2003 → 20 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 11 months
Death 14 November 2019 → 4 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 4 years + 7 months after 2 April 2015
Special notes
None
 
Gordon L. Gosse (1955–2019)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — Fair trade
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
Nova Scotia 11 7 24 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 61
NDP
 1 Speaker 55–58 19 Jan 2011 — 07 Oct 2013 2 8 18

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Paul W. MacEwan  m 
 		 ⊕ Derek C. Mombourquette  m 
 
Eligible: 9,862 Votes: 7,546 Participation: 76.52% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 1375(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
43
NDP
 2/3 3,253 43.42% -751 Winner:
LIB
 4,004 53.44% Paul W. MacEwan
Eligible: 10,279 Votes: 6,982 Participation: 67.92% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
59		 Nova Scotia
5 August 2003
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 1270(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
47
NDP
 1/3 3,168 45.61% +74 Loser:
LIB
 3,094 44.54% Mel Crowe

Service: 2 years 10 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,261 Votes: 7,107 Participation: 69.26% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
60		 Nova Scotia
13 June 2006
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 535(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
NDP
 1/4 4,315 60.92% +2,521 Loser:
LIB
 1,794 25.33% Mel Crowe

Service: 2 years 11 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,748 Votes: 6,681 Participation: 62.16% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
61		 Nova Scotia
9 June 2009
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 6127(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:14 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
NDP
 1/4 4,735 71.07% +3,186 Loser:
LIB
 1,549 23.25% Donnie Morrison

Service: 4 years 3 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 17,721 Votes: 10,360 Participation: 58.46% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
62		 Nova Scotia
8 October 2013
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 7210(F) — 9 Feb 2022 20:39 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
NDP
 1/3 5,084 49.37% +550 Loser:
LIB
 4,534 44.03% Derek C. Mombourquette
After his election:
2 Apr 2015 59
NDP
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 5 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 18,310 Votes: 7,768 Participation: 42.42% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
62		 Nova Scotia
14 July 2015
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 14230(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:14 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
59		 Successor:
LIB
 3,796 49.06% Derek C. Mombourquette

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia: a biographical directory from 1984 to the Present
Gosse, Gordon Leonard (Jr.) (p. 95)		 10 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Gordie Gosse		 10 Mar 2024

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