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♂ Robert M. Bruce
aliasRobert Bruce
Record
7820 · 7128

Gwich'in   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Yukon 2 1 3
Birth 12 July 1948 → 75 years + 9 months ago
Lived 74 years + 9 months
First mandate 30 September 1996 → 27 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 2 months
Death 16 April 2023 → 1 year ago
Exit → Death 23 years after 16 April 2000
Special notes
None
 
Robert M. Bruce (1948–2023)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Yukon — 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
Yukon 3 5 14 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. YT 29
NDP
 1 Speaker 48 30 Oct 1996 — 28 Feb 1997 0 3 29
2. YT 29
NDP
 2 Speaker 48–51 02 Apr 1997 — 16 Apr 2000 3 0 14

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Grafton Njootli  m 
 		 ⊕ Esau A. Schafer  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 125 Votes: 110 Participation: 88.00% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
24		 Yukon
20 November 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 27125(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:43 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
30
NDP
 3/3 19 17.27% -43 Winner:
PC
 62 56.36% Grafton Njootli
Eligible: 177 Votes: 164 Participation: 92.66% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
29		 Yukon
30 September 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 27220(F) — 28 Feb 2022 12:49 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
NDP
 1/3 68 41.72% 0 Loser:
YP
 68 41.72% Esau A. Schafer
After his election:
28 Feb 1997 48
NDP
 →
Vac.
 Election cancelled/Unseated
Service: 4 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 187 Votes: 162 Participation: 86.63% Candidacies: 2
Territorial
29		 Yukon
1 April 1997
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 27224(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
NDP
 1/2 88 55.00% +16 Loser:
YP
 72 45.00% Esau A. Schafer

Service: 3 years 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 192 Votes: 183 Participation: 95.31% Candidacies: 3
Territorial
30		 Yukon
17 April 2000
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 27239(F) — 21 Jul 2021 13:44 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
51		 Successor:
NDP
 69 37.70% Lorraine (Netro) Peter

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Robert Bruce (Yukon politician)		 14 Apr 2024
EN Yukon Legislature Speaks
Robert Bruce		 14 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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