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♂ James Barnes
aliasJames Barnes
Record
2753 · 10885

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 1 4
Birth 6 September 1842 → 181 years + 7 months ago
Lived 82 years + 2 months
First mandate 16 October 1895 → 128 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 1 month
Death 8 November 1924 → 99 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 8 months after 2 March 1908
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 12 4 13 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Antoine Girouard  m 
⊖ Urbain Johnson  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Pierre H. Léger  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Jean-Baptiste Goguen  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Auguste T. Léger  m 
⊖ James D. Phinney  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 6,533 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 New Brunswick
22 October 1892
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32124(F) — 26 Aug 2023 18:09 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
50
LIB
 4/4 1,294 39.61% -534 Winner:
CONS
 1,828 55.95% Jean-Baptiste Goguen
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,285 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
29		 New Brunswick
16 October 1895
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32145(F) — 26 Aug 2023 18:09 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
LIB
 2/6 1,549 56.08% +218 Loser:
CONS
 1,331 48.19% Jean-Baptiste Goguen

Service: 3 years 4 months 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 10,924 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
30		 New Brunswick
18 February 1899
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32169(F) — 26 Aug 2023 18:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
LIB
 2/6 2,430 66.74% +1,058 Loser:
CONS
 1,372 37.68% Jean-Baptiste Goguen

Service: 4 years 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 6,926 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
31		 New Brunswick
28 February 1903
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32196(F) — 26 Aug 2023 18:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
LIB
 1/5 1,802 78.04% +610 Loser:
ILIB
 1,192 51.62% Pascal Herbert

Service: 5 years 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 11,633 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
32		 New Brunswick
3 March 1908
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32222(F) — 11 Feb 2022 12:49 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
65		 Successor:
CONS
 2,234 57.61% John Sheridan

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
James Barnes		 26 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
James Barnes (Canadian politician)		 26 Jul 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Aug 2023 18:09 (but data presented dynamically)

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