Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → R. Louis Burge

♂ R. Louis Burge
aliasR. Louis Burge
Record
8244 · 5587

Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 20%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 1 4 5
Birth 13 June 1898 → 125 years + 10 months ago
Lived 92 years
First mandate 11 December 1947 → 76 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 5 months
Death 26 June 1990 → 33 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 2 months after 25 April 1951
Special notes
None
 
R. Louis Burge (1898–1990)
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — Public domain
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
Prince Edward Island 3 4 13 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas R. Cullen  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ James P. MacIntyre  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,456 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
43		 Prince Edward Island
23 July 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25556(F) — 11 Nov 2022 16:41 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
37
CONS
 2/2 591 40.59% -274 Winner:
LIB
 865 59.41% James P. MacIntyre
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,396 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
44		 Prince Edward Island
18 May 1939
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25587(F) — 11 Nov 2022 16:41 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
40
CONS
 2/2 564 40.40% -268 Winner:
LIB
 832 59.60% James P. MacIntyre
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,291 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
45		 Prince Edward Island
15 September 1943
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25620(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
45
PC
 2/2 631 48.88% -29 Winner:
LIB
 660 51.12% Thomas R. Cullen
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,445 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
46		 Prince Edward Island
11 December 1947
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25656(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
PC
 1/2 744 51.49% +43 Loser:
LIB
 701 48.51% Thomas R. Cullen

Service: 3 years 4 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,376 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
47		 Prince Edward Island
26 April 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25691(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
52
PC
 2/2 567 41.21% -242 Winner:
LIB
 809 58.79% Thomas R. Cullen

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Burge, Richard Louis		 27 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Richard Louis Burge		 27 Dec 2023

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Dec 2023 12:03 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.