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♂ Duncan Gordon Blair
aliasGordon Blair
Record
5218 · 100

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 1 2
Birth 23 December 1919 → 104 years + 6 months ago
Lived 86 years + 5 months
First mandate 25 June 1968 → 56 years + 5 days ago
↳ at age 48 years + 6 months
Death 14 June 2006 → 18 years ago
Exit → Death 33 years + 7 months after 29 October 1972
Special notes
None
 
Duncan Gordon Blair (1919–2006)
© Photo 1968 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair use
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
Canada 4 4 4

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Walter Baker  m 
 		 ⊖ Jean Casselman Wadds  f 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 43,980 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
28		 Ontario
25 June 1968
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 9972(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
48
LIB
 1/3 21,250 48.32% +2,407 Loser:
PC
 18,843 42.84% Jean Casselman Wadds

Service: 4 years 4 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 73,193 Votes: 61,120 Participation: 83.51% Candidacies: 3
Federal
29		 Ontario
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10227(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
52
LIB
 2/3 22,026 36.04% -10,663 Winner:
PC
 32,689 53.48% Walter D. Baker

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Duncan Gordon Blair, Q.C., C.M., M.P.		  6 Jun 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Duncan Gordon Blair, c.r., C.M., député		  6 Jun 2024
EN Wikipedia
Gordon Blair (politician)		  6 Jun 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  6 Jun 2024 21:01 (but data presented dynamically)

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