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♂ James Henry Howden
aliasJames Howden
Record
28405 · 14317

  
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 0 5
Birth 11 October 1860 → 163 years + 7 months ago
Lived 77 years + 9 months
First mandate 2 December 1903 → 120 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 1 month
Death 16 July 1938 → 85 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 22 years + 11 months after 5 August 1915
Special notes
None
 
James Henry Howden (1860–1938)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
✗
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Neepawa, Manitoba (1899–1903; 1905–1907)
Mun./Co. Council ✗
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 11 7 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Alexander Dunlop  m 
 		 ⊖ William Wood  m 
 
Eligible: 1,717 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
2 December 1903
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36887(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
CONS
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 3 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,805 Votes: 1,470 Participation: 81.44% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36894(F) — 19 Mar 2022 17:55 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
CONS
 1/2 791 53.81% +112 Loser:
LIB
 679 46.19% Alexander Dunlop
After his election:
16 Mar 1907 46
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
26 March 1907
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36933(F) — 14 Oct 2022 21:07 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
CONS
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 3 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,009 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36943(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
CONS
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 11 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,428 Votes: 2,172 Participation: 89.46% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36991(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
CONS
 1/2 1,102 50.74% +32 Loser:
LIB
 1,070 49.26% William R. Wood

Service: 1 year 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,393 Votes: 2,033 Participation: 84.96% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37040(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
54		 Successor:
LIB
 1,115 54.85% William R. Wood

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Howden, James Henry		 12 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Howden, James Henry		 12 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Henry Howden (1860-1938)		 12 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
James H. Howden		 12 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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