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♂ Horace Boswell Carver
aliasHorace Carver
Record
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Protestant   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 2 5
Birth 29 December 1948
Age 75 years + 10 months
1st mandate 24 April 1978 → 46 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 29 years + 3 months
 
Mandate end 38 years + 6 months ago (20 April 1986)
Special notes
None
 
Horace Boswell Carver (1948– )
© Photo Horace Carver — 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
Prince Edward Island 7 11 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Betty Jean Brown  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Cecil Miller  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Paul Connolly  m 
 
Queens 3rd - Assemblyman
Elig. 5,325 Votes: 4,658 Partic.: 87.47%
 !!! 
 Can.: 3
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
29 April 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25908(F) — 25 Dec 2023 23:35 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
25
PC
 2/3 1,905 42.37% -190 Winner:
LIB
 2,095 46.60% Cecil A. Miller
Queens 3rd - Assemblyman
Elig. 6,432 Votes: 5,587 Partic.: 86.86%
 !!! 
 Can.: 2
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4771(F) — 25 Dec 2023 23:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
29
PC
 1/2 3,177 57.91% +868 Loser:
LIB
 2,309 42.09% Cecil A. Miller

Service: 11 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Queens 3rd - Assemblyman
Elig. 6,889 Votes: 6,002 Partic.: 87.12%
 !!! 
 Can.: 2
Provincial
55		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4739(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
30
PC
 1/2 3,392 58.33% +969 Loser:
LIB
 2,423 41.67% J. Paul Connolly

Service: 3 years 5 months 3 days (Gov't)
Queens 3rd - Assemblyman
Elig. 8,185 Votes: 6,627 Partic.: 80.97%
 !!! 
 Can.: 2
Provincial
56		 Prince Edward Island
27 September 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2521(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
33
PC
 1/2 3,436 53.70% +474 Loser:
LIB
 2,962 46.30% Betty Jean Brown

Service: 3 years 6 months 24 days (Gov't)
Queens 3rd - Assemblyman
Elig. 8,326 Votes: 7,423 Partic.: 89.15%
 !!! 
 Can.: 3
Provincial
57		 Prince Edward Island
21 April 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2489(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
37
PC
 2/3 3,394 46.11% -184 Winner:
LIB
 3,578 48.61% Betty Jean Brown

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Carver, Q.C., Horace Boswell		 29 Aug 2024
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Horace Boswell Carver		 29 Aug 2024

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