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♂ James Allan Smart
aliasJames Smart
Record
57356 · 14027

  
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 6 June 1858 → 165 years + 11 months ago
Lived 83 years + 10 months
First mandate 9 December 1886 → 137 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 28 years + 6 months
Death 3 May 1942 → 82 years ago
Exit → Death 49 years + 9 months after 22 July 1892
Special notes
None
 
James Allan Smart (1858–1942)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Elections or appointments outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
Governor Yukon (1902)
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Brandon, Manitoba (1884–1886; 1894–1896)
Mun./Co. Council Brandon, Manitoba (1882–1883; 1894)
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 5 6 22 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Charles Cliffe  m 
 		 ⊖ William Macdonald  m 
 
Eligible: 1,884 Votes: 1,101 Participation: 58.44% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
6		 Manitoba
9 December 1886
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36471(F) — 16 Mar 2022 20:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
28
LIB
 1/2 580 52.68% +59 Loser:
CONS
 521 47.32% George Winters
After his election:
20 Jan 1888 29
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 1 year 1 month 11 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
6		 Manitoba
9 February 1888
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36507(F) — 14 Oct 2022 20:46 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
29
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 5 months 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 620 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
7		 Manitoba
11 July 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36516(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
30
LIB
 1/2 340 54.84% +60 Loser:
CONS
 280 45.16% Charles Cliffe

Service: 4 years 11 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,561 Votes: 1,326 Participation: 84.95% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Manitoba
23 July 1892
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36561(F) — 26 Aug 2023 15:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
34
LIB
 2/2 657 49.55% -12 Winner:
CONS
 669 50.45% William A. Macdonald

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Smart, James Allen		 28 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Smart, James Allen		 28 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Allan Smart (1858-1942)		 28 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
James A. Smart		 28 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 28 Apr 2024 22:30 (but data presented dynamically)

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