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♂ Martin F. O'Brien
aliasMartin F. O'Brien
Record
46685 · 5843

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Newfoundland and Labrador 1 1 2
Birth Unknown
   
First mandate 30 June 1976 → 47 years + 10 months ago
Death Unknown
 
Special notes
None
 

Martin F. O'Brien (? – ?)
No image 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
Newfoundland and Labrador 0 6 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas M. Doyle  m 
⊕ Charles J. Power  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Gerald E. Panting  m 
 
Eligible: 4,888 Votes: 4,080 Participation: 83.47% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
37		 Newfoundland and Labrador
16 September 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14550(F) — 27 Feb 2022 15:50 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
?
LIB
 2/4 1,232 30.29% -8 Winner:
PC
 1,240 30.48% Charles J. Power
Eligible: 4,888 Votes: 3,891 Participation: 79.60% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
37		 Newfoundland and Labrador
30 June 1976
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14744(F) — 5 Aug 2023 23:12 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
?
LIB
 1/5 1,384 35.67% +9 Loser:
ILIB
 1,375 35.44% Charles J. Power
After his election:
13 Jan 1977
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Election cancelled/Unseated
Service: 6 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 4,888 Votes: 3,305 Participation: 67.61% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
37		 Newfoundland and Labrador
16 June 1977
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14745(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
?		 Successor:
PC
 1,496 45.40% Charles J. Power

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
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37th General Assembly of Newfoundland, By-elections		 22 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 22 Dec 2023 15:36 (but data presented dynamically)

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