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♂ Harry O. Downey
aliasHarry O. Downey
Record
16855 · 10660

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 5 1 6
Birth 9 May 1897 → 126 years + 11 months ago
Lived 76 years + 11 months
First mandate 19 June 1930 → 93 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 1 month
Death 17 April 1974 → 50 years ago
Exit → Death 21 years + 6 months after 21 September 1952
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
New Brunswick 22 2 29 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 40–41
LIB
 1 Speaker 47–54 20 Feb 1945 — 21 Sep 1951 6 7 1

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
6 documented challengers
⊖ A. Russell Colpitts  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Everett E. Newcomb  m 
⊖ Lewis Smith  m  (4 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Frederick Colpitts  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Conrad J. Osman  m 
⊖ Claude D. Taylor  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,648 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
37		 New Brunswick
19 June 1930
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32350(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
LIB
 2/4 1,992 52.09% +178 Loser:
CONS
 1,814 47.44% Lewis Smith

Service: 5 years 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,593 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
38		 New Brunswick
27 June 1935
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32370(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
LIB
 2/4 2,227 51.83% +189 Loser:
CONS
 2,038 47.43% Hanford Kierstead

Service: 4 years 4 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,306 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32387(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
LIB
 2/4 2,077 50.01% +8 Loser:
CONS
 2,069 49.82% Lewis Smith

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,021 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32407(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
LIB
 2/6 1,792 44.68% +93 Loser:
PC
 1,699 42.36% Lewis Smith

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 9,013 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32427(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
LIB
 2/6 2,504 55.56% +1,124 Loser:
PC
 1,380 30.62% Claude D. Taylor

Service: 4 years 2 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 10,041 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32445(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
55		 Successor:
PC
 2,800 55.77% Claude D. Taylor
Eligible: inc. Votes: 11,034 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
44		 New Brunswick
27 June 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32479(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
63
LIB
 3/4 2,489 45.12% -542 Winner:
PC
 3,031 54.94% Everett E. Newcomb

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Harry Orliff Downey		 05 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Harry Orliff Downey		 05 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Harry O. Downey		 05 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  5 Aug 2023 22:55 (but data presented dynamically)

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