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♂ Joseph Edgar
aliasJoseph Edgar
Record
18207 · 12861

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 25%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 1 3 4
Birth 7 June 1856 → 167 years + 11 months ago
Lived 66 years + 3 months
First mandate 29 June 1914 → 109 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 58 years
Death 10 September 1922 → 101 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 2 years + 10 months after 19 October 1919
Special notes
None
 

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
Ontario 5 3 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ William R. Beatty  m 
⊖ Richard R. Hall  m 
 		 ⊖ J. Milton Carr  m 
 
Eligible: 8,183 Votes: 3,602 Participation: 44.02% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Ontario
1 March 1898
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33468(F) — 30 Dec 2022 19:16 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
41
IND
 2/2 1,227 34.48% -1,105 Winner:
LIB
 2,332 65.52% William R. Beatty
Eligible: 11,263 Votes: 4,669 Participation: 41.45% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
10		 Ontario
29 May 1902
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33561(F) — 30 Dec 2022 16:29 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
45
LC
 2/2 2,173 46.60% -317 Winner:
LIB
 2,490 53.40% J. Milton Carr
Eligible: 7,731 Votes: 4,735 Participation: 61.25% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Ontario
29 June 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34068(F) — 29 Dec 2022 09:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
58
LC
 1/2 2,770 58.84% +832 Loser:
LIB
 1,938 41.16% Gilbert Richardson

Service: 5 years 3 months 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 12,063 Votes: 8,755 Participation: 72.58% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Ontario
20 October 1919
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFO  Minority
ID: 34202(F) — 17 Dec 2022 12:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
63
LC
 2/2 3,857 45.51% -761 Winner:
LIB
 4,618 54.49% Richard R. Hall

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Joseph Edgar		  3 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Joseph Edgar		  3 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Joseph Edgar		  3 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  3 Aug 2023 22:00 (but data presented dynamically)

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