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♂ John Howard Lundrigan
aliasJohn Lundrigan
Record
37128 · 68

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 2 1 3
Newfoundland and Labrador 1 0 1
Total 3 1 4
Birth 10 January 1939 → 85 years + 3 months ago
Lived 70 years + 1 month
First mandate 25 June 1968 → 55 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 29 years + 5 months
Death 5 March 2009 → 15 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 29 years + 8 months after 17 June 1979
Special notes
None
 
John Howard Lundrigan (1939–2009)
© Photo 1973 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Progressive Conservative MP from Newfoundland, Lundrigan is best remembered for having been on the receiving end of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's famous "fuddle duddle" comment of 1971.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 6 0 10
Newfoundland and Labrador 3 9 0 Z
TOTAL 9 9 10

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊕ George S. Baker  m 
⊖ R. David Rooney  m 
 		 ⊖ Charles R.M. Granger  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 19,969 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
28		 Newfoundland and Labrador
25 June 1968
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 9939(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
29
PC
 1/3 10,601 53.09% +1,585 Loser:
LIB
 9,016 45.15% Charles R.M. Granger

Service: 4 years 4 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 39,184 Votes: 23,393 Participation: 59.70% Candidacies: 3
Federal
29		 Newfoundland and Labrador
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10195(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
33
PC
 1/3 12,420 53.09% +2,024 Loser:
LIB
 10,396 44.44% George S. Baker

Service: 1 year 8 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 42,012 Votes: 26,453 Participation: 62.97% Candidacies: 3
Federal
30		 Newfoundland and Labrador
8 July 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10457(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
35
PC
 2/3 12,117 45.81% -1,141 Winner:
LIB
 13,258 50.12% R. David Rooney
Eligible: 4,839 Votes: 3,735 Participation: 77.19% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
37		 Newfoundland and Labrador
16 September 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14555(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
PC
 1/3 2,126 57.06% +1,112 Loser:
LIB
 1,014 27.21% Munden D. Batstone

Service: 3 years 9 months 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,335 Votes: 4,353 Participation: 81.59% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
38		 Newfoundland and Labrador
18 June 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14503(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
40		 Successor:
PC
 2,556 58.75% Leonard A. Simms

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
John Howard Lundrigan, M.P.		 08 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
John Howard Lundrigan, député		 08 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Lundrigan		 08 Apr 2024

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