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♂ Robert Ringma
aliasRobert Ringma
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 0 1
Birth 30 June 1928 → 95 years + 9 months ago
Lived 85 years + 9 months
First mandate 25 October 1993 → 30 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 65 years + 3 months
Death 31 March 2014 → 10 years ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 9 months after 1 June 1997
Special notes
None
 
Robert Ringma (1928–2014)
© Photo 1994 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A one-term Reform MP for Nanaimo—Cowichan, Ringma opined in 1996 [not a typo] that store owners should be free to move gay and black people "to the back of the shop," or even to fire them, if the presence of that individual offended a bigoted customer.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 3 7 6

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Ron Cantelon  m 
 		 ⊖ David D. Stupich  m 
 
Eligible: 92,093 Votes: 61,763 Participation: 67.07% Candidacies: 10
Federal
35		 British Columbia
25 October 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 3184(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
65
REF
 1/10 25,339 41.22% +11,499 Loser:
LIB
 13,840 22.51% Ron Cantelon

Service: 3 years 7 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 77,704 Votes: 50,669 Participation: 65.21% Candidacies: 7
Federal
36		 British Columbia
2 June 1997
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2883(F) — 30 Jun 2023 23:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
68		 Successor:
REF
 22,685 44.95% Reed Elley

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Mr. Robert (Bob) Ringma, M.P.		 13 Feb 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Monsieur Robert (Bob) Ringma, député		 13 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Bob Ringma		 13 Feb 2024

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Rev.: 13 Feb 2024 12:46 (but data presented dynamically)

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