Bob Anderson (Canadian politician)
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Robert Colin Anderson (born May 5, 1939) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. Born in Saint Boniface, Manitoba, he was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1977 to 1981.<ref name="members">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The son of Robert Anderson and Lillian Marie Kraushar, he was born in St. Boniface, was educated at the University of Manitoba and worked as a farmer. He served as a councillor in the municipality of Springfield, Manitoba, located east of Winnipeg, from 1968 to 1972. In 1966, he married Jean Edith Shelfontuk.<ref name="pgn">Template:Cite book</ref>
He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1977, defeating incumbent New Democrat Rene Toupin<ref name="members"/> by almost 2,000 votes in the riding of Springfield.<ref name="cbc">Template:Cite news</ref> The Tories won this election, and Anderson served as a backbench supporter of Sterling Lyon's government for the next four years. He lost to NDP candidate Andy Anstett by 470 votes in the 1981 election,<ref name="cbc"/> and has not sought a return to the legislature since then.