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♂ Alexander Grant
aliasAlexander Grant
Record
24111 · 10292

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 0 2
Birth c. 1829 → 195 years ago
Lived ± 71 years
First mandate 21 May 1890 → 133 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age ± 61 years
Death 30 April 1900 → 123 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 3 years + 11 days after 19 April 1897
Special notes
None
 

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
Nova Scotia 6 10 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
5 documented challengers
⊖ William Cameron  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James D. McGregor  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John M. Yorston  m 
 		 ⊖ Edward M. Macdonald  m 
⊖ Charles E. Tanner  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 16,992 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
30		 Nova Scotia
21 May 1890
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17885(F) — 9 Aug 2023 17:41 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±61
LC
 3/6 2,883 50.90% +48 Loser:
LC
 2,835 50.05% Charles E. Tanner

Service: 3 years 9 months 21 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 18,147 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
31		 Nova Scotia
15 March 1894
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17908(F) — 9 Aug 2023 17:41 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±65
LC
 3/6 3,109 51.40% +117 Loser:
LIB
 2,992 49.46% James D. McGregor

Service: 3 years 1 month 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 20,042 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
32		 Nova Scotia
20 April 1897
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17936(F) — 6 Feb 2022 21:52 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±68		 Successor:
LC
 3,314 49.60% Matthew H. Fitzpatrick

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Alexander Grant		 09 Aug 2023
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Grant, Alexander (p. 85)		 09 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Alexander Grant (Nova Scotia politician)		 09 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Aug 2023 17:41 (but data presented dynamically)

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