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♂ Joseph Gérard Léonce Bernard
aliasLéonce Bernard
Record
4376 · 5655

Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 6 0 6
Birth 23 May 1943 → 80 years + 11 months ago
Lived 69 years + 10 months
First mandate 3 November 1975 → 48 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 32 years + 5 months
Death 25 March 2013 → 11 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 19 years + 11 months after 28 March 1993
Special notes
None
 
Joseph Gérard Léonce Bernard (1943–2013)
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — 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
Prince Edward Island 17 4 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 3,201 Votes: 2,532 Participation: 79.10% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
3 November 1975
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25917(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
32
LIB
 1/2 1,571 62.05% +610 Loser:
PC
 961 37.95% J. Robert Brown

Service: 2 years 5 months 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,374 Votes: 3,015 Participation: 89.36% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4769(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
34
LIB
 1/3 1,834 61.98% +768 Loser:
PC
 1,066 36.03% Pierre A. Doiron

Service: 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,163 Votes: 3,021 Participation: 95.51% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
55		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4737(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
35
LIB
 1/2 1,884 63.86% +818 Loser:
PC
 1,066 36.14% Pierre A. Doiron

Service: 3 years 5 months 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,972 Votes: 3,137 Participation: 78.98% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
56		 Prince Edward Island
27 September 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2519(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
LIB
 1/2 1,609 52.33% +143 Loser:
PC
 1,466 47.67% Wendell J. Gallant

Service: 3 years 6 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,753 Votes: 3,345 Participation: 89.13% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Prince Edward Island
21 April 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2487(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
LIB
 1/3 1,772 53.70% +496 Loser:
PC
 1,276 38.67% Wendell J. Gallant

Service: 3 years 1 month 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,794 Votes: 3,154 Participation: 83.13% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Prince Edward Island
29 May 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2455(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
LIB
 1/3 2,280 73.26% +1,589 Loser:
PC
 691 22.20% Thomas G. Offer

Service: 3 years 9 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,714 Votes: 3,150 Participation: 84.81% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
59		 Prince Edward Island
29 March 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2430(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
49		 Successor:
LIB
 1,942 64.56% Robert J. Maddix

Online biographical references (5)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid [Eds.])
Bernard, O.P.E.I., Honourable Joseph Gerard "Léonce"		 15 Apr 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Bernard, Honourable Joseph Gerard Léonce		 15 Apr 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Joseph Gerard Leonce Bernard		 15 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Léonce Bernard		 15 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Léonce Bernard		 15 Apr 2024

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