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♂ John Keen
aliasJohn Keen
Record
31098 · 13756

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 20%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 1 4 5
Birth 23 January 1844 → 180 years + 3 months ago
Lived 78 years
First mandate 14 September 1916 → 107 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 72 years + 7 months
Death 22 February 1922 → 102 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 1 year + 2 months after 30 November 1920
Special notes
None
 
John Keen (1844–1922)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, British Columbia — 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
British Columbia 4 2 16 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. BC 14
LIB
 1 Speaker 74–76 07 Feb 1918 — 23 Oct 1920 2 8 16

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Robert Francis Green  m 
⊖ Neil F. MacKay  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Fred W. Lister  m 
 
Eligible: 2,060 Votes: 1,182 Participation: 57.38% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
9		 British Columbia
9 June 1900
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28820(F) — 19 Aug 2023 06:13 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
56
LC
 2/3 373 31.56% -266 Winner:
PROV
 639 54.06% Robert F. Green
Eligible: 883 Votes: 422 Participation: 47.79% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 British Columbia
1 February 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28895(F) — 19 Aug 2023 06:13 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
63
LIB
 2/2 189 44.79% -44 Winner:
LC
 233 55.21% Neil F. MacKay
Eligible: 593 Votes: 427 Participation: 72.01% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 British Columbia
25 November 1909
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28934(F) — 19 Aug 2023 06:13 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
65
LIB
 2/2 134 31.38% -159 Winner:
LC
 293 68.62% Neil F. MacKay
Eligible: 2,000 Votes: 830 Participation: 41.50% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 British Columbia
14 September 1916
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 29008(F) — 19 Aug 2023 06:13 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
72
LIB
 1/2 456 54.94% +82 Loser:
LC
 374 45.06% Robert J. Long

Service: 4 years 2 months 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,813 Votes: 1,504 Participation: 82.96% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 British Columbia
1 December 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 29219(F) — 19 Aug 2023 06:13 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
76
LIB
 2/2 744 49.47% -16 Winner:
LC
 760 50.53% Fred W. Lister

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
John Keen		  1 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Keen (Canadian politician)		  1 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  1 Jan 2024 18:44 (but data presented dynamically)

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