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♂ Robert Allison Ellis
aliasAllison Ellis
Record
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United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 5 1 6
Birth 19 April 1935 → 89 years ago
Lived 87 years + 6 months
First mandate 24 April 1978 → 46 years + 9 days ago
↳ at age 43 years
Death 25 October 2022 → 1 year + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 29 years + 6 months after 28 March 1993
Special notes
None
 
Robert Allison Ellis (1935–2022)
© Photo 2022 Le Nécrologue — 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 14 10 30 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
1 documented challenger
⊖ L. George Dewar  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 2,824 Votes: 2,315 Participation: 81.98% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
8 November 1976
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25918(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
41
LIB
 2/2 1,150 49.68% -15 Winner:
PC
 1,165 50.32% L. George Dewar
Eligible: 2,943 Votes: 2,627 Participation: 89.26% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4764(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
LIB
 1/2 1,490 57.51% +389 Loser:
PC
 1,101 42.49% Darlene M. Collicut

Service: 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,069 Votes: 2,634 Participation: 85.83% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
55		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4732(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
LIB
 1/2 1,374 53.78% +193 Loser:
PC
 1,181 46.22% L. George Dewar

Service: 3 years 5 months 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,371 Votes: 2,664 Participation: 79.03% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
56		 Prince Edward Island
27 September 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2514(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
LIB
 1/2 1,467 56.75% +349 Loser:
PC
 1,118 43.25% Erland Phillips

Service: 3 years 6 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,242 Votes: 2,832 Participation: 87.35% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
57		 Prince Edward Island
21 April 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2482(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
LIB
 1/2 1,607 58.04% +445 Loser:
PC
 1,162 41.96% Richard Gorrill

Service: 3 years 1 month 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,188 Votes: 2,578 Participation: 80.87% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
58		 Prince Edward Island
29 May 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2450(F) — 13 Jul 2023 01:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
LIB
 1/3 1,600 63.19% +778 Loser:
PC
 822 32.46% Ken Banks
After his election:
1 Apr 1992 56
LIB
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
Service: 3 years 9 months 28 days (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,258 Votes: 2,793 Participation: 85.73% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
59		 Prince Edward Island
29 March 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2427(F) — 13 Jul 2023 01:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
LIB
 1,459 53.66% Randy E. Cooke

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Saltwire, Obituaries (28 October 2022), Robert "Allison" Ellis — West Cape		 14 Apr 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Ellis, Robert Allison		 14 Apr 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Robert Allison Ellis		 14 Apr 2024

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