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♂ James Caven Mahaffy
aliasJames Mahaffy
Record
38690 · 8284

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 29 August 1905 → 118 years + 8 months ago
Lived 81 years + 3 months
First mandate 21 March 1940 → 84 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 34 years + 6 months
Death 29 November 1986 → 37 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 42 years + 3 months after 7 August 1944
Special notes
None
 
James Caven Mahaffy (1905–1986)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — 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
Alberta 4 4 17 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 9
INDM
 1 Opposition Leader 37 18 Feb 1943 — 30 Mar 1943 0 1 12

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
7 documented challengers
⊖ William Aberhart  m 
⊖ John James Bowlen  m 
⊖ Edith H. Gostick  f 
⊖ Fred J. White  m 
 		 ⊖ Frederick Anderson  m 
⊖ Andrew Davison  m 
⊖ Joseph T. Shaw  m 
 
Eligible: 59,338 Votes: 45,393 Participation: 78.69% Candidacies: 13
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27843(F) — 25 Oct 2023 06:05 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
34
INDM
 1/13 3,645 7.94% +799 Loser:
CCF
 2,846 6.20% Fred J. White

Service: 4 years 4 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 62,807 Votes: 40,826 Participation: 65.00% Candidacies: 19
Provincial
10		 Alberta
8 August 1944
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27902(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
38		 Successor:
CCF
 3,560 9.06% Aylmer J.E. Liesemer

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
James C. Mahaffy, KC		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Mahaffy		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 May 2024 21:27 (but data presented dynamically)

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