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♂ Thomas Audley Bate
aliasThomas Bate
Record
3014 · 8623

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 4 2 6
Birth 12 March 1913 → 111 years + 1 month ago
Lived 54 years + 6 months
First mandate 10 June 1953 → 70 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 40 years + 2 months
Death 21 September 1967 → 56 years + 7 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

Thomas Audley Bate (1913–1967)
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
British Columbia 11 3 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
10 documented challengers
⊖ Robert W. Bonner  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Buda H. Brown  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Norman Levi  m 
⊖ Albert R. MacDougall  m 
⊖ Patrick L. McGeer  m 
 		 ⊖ Ernest J. Broome  m 
⊖ Arthur Laing  m 
⊖ Ralph R. Loffmark  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ W. Grace MacInnis  f 
⊖ Arthur Phillips  m 
 
Eligible: 87,774 Votes: 56,988 Participation: 64.93% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
23		 British Columbia
12 June 1952
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Minority
ID: 29764(F) — 4 Mar 2022 09:40 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
39
SC
 2/4 13,771 26.24% -271 Winner:
PC
 14,042 26.75% Albert R. MacDougall
Eligible: 82,257 Votes: 52,911 Participation: 64.32% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
24		 British Columbia
10 June 1953
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29818(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
40
SC
 1/7 19,768 39.77% +5,156 Loser:
LIB
 14,612 29.40% Theodore R. Burnett

Service: 3 years 3 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 85,349 Votes: 156,514 Participation: 61.13% Candidacies: 14
Provincial
25		 British Columbia
19 September 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29866(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
SC
 2/14 23,696 45.58% +5,895 Loser:
LIB
 17,801 34.24% Arthur Laing

Service: 3 years 11 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 85,870 Votes: 173,635 Participation: 69.72% Candidacies: 12
Provincial
26		 British Columbia
12 September 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29914(F) — 4 Mar 2022 15:03 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
SC
 2/12 23,950 41.38% +6,512 Loser:
LIB
 17,438 30.13% Francis C. Boyes

Service: 3 years 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 85,510 Votes: 180,198 Participation: 70.24% Candidacies: 12
Provincial
27		 British Columbia
30 September 1963
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29959(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
50
SC
 4/12 20,267 33.88% -695 Winner:
SC
 20,962 35.04% Ralph R. Loffmark
Eligible: 40,390 Votes: 54,171 Participation: 67.06% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
28		 British Columbia
12 September 1966
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 29971(F) — 4 Mar 2022 15:22 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
53
SC
 2/7 11,740 43.34% +2,673 Loser:
NDP
 9,067 33.47% Norman Levi
After his election:
21 Sep 1967 54
SC
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 1 year 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 40,390 Votes: 26,196 Participation: 64.86% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 British Columbia
21 May 1968
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 30012(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
54		 Successor:
NDP
 10,289 39.57% Norman Levi

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Thomas Audley Bate		 28 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Thomas Audley Bate		 28 Apr 2024

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