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♂ John Silas Poole
aliasJohn Poole
Record
50204 · 14574

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 25 June 1872 → 151 years + 10 months ago
Lived 91 years + 6 months
First mandate 27 July 1936 → 87 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 64 years + 1 month
Death 29 December 1963 → 60 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 14 years + 1 month after 9 November 1949
Special notes
None
 
John Silas Poole (1872–1963)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — 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
Manitoba 13 3 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ John H. Duffy  m 
 		 ⊖ Adalbert Poole  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 4,516 Votes: 4,107 Participation: 90.94% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37338(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
59
CONS
 2/2 1,729 42.10% -649 Winner:
LIBP
 2,378 57.90% Adalbert J.M. Poole
Eligible: 5,166 Votes: 3,997 Participation: 77.37% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37388(F) — 15 Sep 2022 07:27 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
64
CONS
 1/3 1,634 41.10% +229 Loser:
LIBP
 1,405 35.34% Adalbert J.M. Poole
After his election:
17 Nov 1940 68
CONS
 →
CONS
 Changed allegiance ()
1 Feb 1941 68
CONS
 →
ANTI
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 8 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,237 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37434(F) — 15 Sep 2022 22:14 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
68
ANTI
 1/1 By acclamation
After his election:
9 Dec 1941 69
ANTI
 →
CONS
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 5 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,002 Votes: 2,686 Participation: 53.70% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37485(F) — 17 Sep 2022 07:55 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
73
PC
 1/2 1,775 66.31% +873 Loser:
CCF
 902 33.69% Adalbert J.M. Poole

Service: 4 years 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,124 Votes: 4,413 Participation: 54.32% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37561(F) — 17 Sep 2022 13:41 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
77		 Successor:
LIBP
 2,208 50.26% Samuel E. Burch

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Poole, John Silas M.D.		 15 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
oole, John Silas (Dr.)		 15 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
John Silas Poole (1872-1963)		 15 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Poole (Canadian politician)		 15 May 2024

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