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♂ John Claude Matheson
aliasJohn Claude Matheson
Record
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United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 40%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 2 3 5
Birth 19 March 1935
Age 89 years + 1 month
First mandate 29 May 1989 → 34 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 54 years + 2 months
 
Mandate ended 27 years + 5 months ago (17 November 1996)
Special notes
None
 

John Claude Matheson (1935– ?)
No photo available
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 7 5 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
3 documented challengers
⊖ James W. Dingwell  m 
⊖ S.T. Aquinas Ryan  m 
 		 ⊖ Roderick B. Pratt  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 1,845 Votes: 1,783 Participation: 96.64% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
29 April 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25886(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
39
LIB
 2/3 789 46.41% -51 Winner:
PC
 840 49.41% James W. Dingwell
Eligible: 1,943 Votes: 1,818 Participation: 93.57% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4761(F) — 30 Sep 2021 17:01 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
43
LIB
 2/3 827 46.10% -38 Winner:
PC
 865 48.22% Roderick B. Pratt
Eligible: 2,032 Votes: 1,863 Participation: 91.68% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
55		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4729(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
44
LIB
 2/2 818 44.90% -186 Winner:
PC
 1,004 55.10% Roderick B. Pratt
Eligible: 2,129 Votes: 1,969 Participation: 92.48% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
58		 Prince Edward Island
29 May 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2447(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
54
LIB
 1/2 1,112 58.74% +331 Loser:
PC
 781 41.26% Blois Dingwell

Service: 3 years 9 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,081 Votes: 1,948 Participation: 93.61% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
59		 Prince Edward Island
29 March 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2411(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
LIB
 1/3 1,031 54.21% +245 Loser:
PC
 786 41.32% Henry Compton

Service: 3 years 7 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,846 Votes: 2,659 Participation: 93.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
60		 Prince Edward Island
18 November 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2394(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
61		 Successor:
PC
 1,347 50.72% Kevin J. MacAdam

Online biographical references (4)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Matheson Genealogy Pages, John Claude Matheson		 19 Mar 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid [Eds.])
Matheson, John "Claude"		 19 Mar 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Matheson, John Claude		 19 Mar 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
John Claude Matheson		 19 Mar 2024

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