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♂ Thomas Joseph Dunphy
aliasTom Dunphy
Record
17768 · 5439

Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Prince Edward Island 3 0 3
Total 3 1 4
Birth 12 December 1937
Age 86 years + 6 months
First mandate 21 April 1986 → 38 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 4 months
 
Mandate ended 27 years + 7 months ago (17 November 1996)
Special notes
None
 

Thomas Joseph Dunphy (1937– )
No image 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
Prince Edward Island 10 6 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
5 documented challengers
⊕ Mildred Dover  f 
⊖ Thomas J. Kickham  m 
⊕ Pat Mella  f 
 		 ⊖ Frederick L. Driscoll  m 
⊖ Margaret M. Macdonald  f 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 9,398 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
25		 Prince Edward Island
18 June 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 24664(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
24
NDP
 3/3 467 4.97% -4,081 Winner:
PC
 4,548 48.39% Margaret M. Macdonald
Eligible: 8,326 Votes: 7,431 Participation: 89.25% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Prince Edward Island
21 April 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2490(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
LIB
 1/3 3,622 49.27% +321 Loser:
PC
 3,301 44.90% Frederick L. Driscoll

Service: 3 years 1 month 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,905 Votes: 7,383 Participation: 82.91% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
58		 Prince Edward Island
29 May 1989
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2458(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
LIB
 1/2 4,083 56.56% +947 Loser:
PC
 3,136 43.44% Patricia J. Mella

Service: 3 years 9 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,831 Votes: 8,227 Participation: 83.68% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
59		 Prince Edward Island
29 March 1993
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2422(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
LIB
 1/3 3,940 48.65% +171 Loser:
PC
 3,769 46.54% Mildred A. Dover

Service: 3 years 7 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,846 Votes: 2,659 Participation: 93.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
60		 Prince Edward Island
18 November 1996
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2394(F) — 20 Jul 2021 23:53 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
PC
 1,347 50.72% Kevin J. MacAdam

Online biographical references (4)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs (Volume 2), 1993-2017 (Cassandra Bernard & Sean McQuaid [Eds.])
Dunphy, Thomas Joseph		 14 May 2024
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Dunphy, Thomas Joseph		 14 May 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Tom Joseph Dunphy		 14 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Tom Dunphy		 14 May 2024

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