Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → James M. Gillies

♂ James McPhail Gillies
aliasJim Gillies
Record
23047 · 1309

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 2 0 2
Birth 2 November 1924 → 99 years + 7 months ago
Lived 91 years + 1 month
First mandate 30 October 1972 → 51 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 11 months
Death 13 December 2015 → 8 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 36 years + 6 months after 21 May 1979
Special notes
None
 
James McPhail Gillies (1924–2015)
© Photo 1974 House of Commons (Canada) — Public domain
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 6 6 18

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Norman Brudy  m 
 		 ⊖ Bob Kaplan  m 
 
Eligible: 71,893 Votes: 60,503 Participation: 84.16% Candidacies: 3
Federal
29		 Ontario
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10218(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
47
PC
 1/3 30,764 50.85% +6,135 Loser:
LIB
 24,629 40.71% Robert P. Kaplan

Service: 1 year 8 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 71,345 Votes: 59,286 Participation: 83.10% Candidacies: 6
Federal
30		 Ontario
8 July 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10482(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
PC
 1/6 30,764 52.07% +6,962 Loser:
LIB
 23,802 40.28% W. Grant Ross

Service: 4 years 10 months 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 66,162 Votes: 53,732 Participation: 81.21% Candidacies: 5
Federal
31		 Ontario
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4422(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
54		 Successor:
PC
 25,352 47.18% A. Samuel Wakim

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
James McPhail Gillies, M.P.		  9 Jun 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
James McPhail Gillies, député		  9 Jun 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Gillies		  9 Jun 2024

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Jun 2024 10:03 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.