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♂ Hugh Mackay
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ∑ ✓ ✗
New Brunswick 3 3 0
Birth 19 December 1887 → 135 years + 11 months ago
Lived 69 years + 11 months
First mandate 20 November 1939 → 84 years + 17 days ago
↳ at age 51 years + 11 months
Death 6 December 1957 → 66 years ago
Exit → Death 5 years + 2 months after 21 September 1952
Special notes
No
 
Family link with other documented individuals
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 12 9 30 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 39–40
CONS
 1 Opposition Leader 51–60 20 Nov 1939 — 27 Jun 1948 8 7 7
2. NB 39
CONS
 1 ✓ Party leader 52–54 20 Jan 1940 — 22 Sep 1942 2 8 2
3. NB 39–41
CONS
 2 Party leader 54–63 23 Sep 1942 — 10 Jul 1951 8 9 17

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Walter W.V. Foster  m 
⊖ Elmer T. Kennedy  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John Woods  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ William A. Jeffries  m 
⊖ Harry A. McMackin  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 30,820 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32392(F) — 14 Jun 2023 23:02 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
51
CONS
 2/6 5,557 54.09% +778 Loser:
LIB
 4,779 46.52% Walter W.V. Foster

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 30,000 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 9
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32412(F) — 15 Sep 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
56
PC
 2/9 5,409 54.09% +1,537 Loser:
LIB
 3,872 38.72% George H. Hall

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 32,420 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32432(F) — 15 Sep 2021 22:05 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
60
PC
 2/6 5,692 52.67% +459 Loser:
LIB
 5,233 48.42% George H. Hall

Service: 4 years 2 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 34,484 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32450(F) — 12 Feb 2022 14:10 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
64		 Successor:
PC
 6,875 59.81% Elmer T. Kennedy

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Hugh Mackay (New Brunswick politician, born 1887)		 26 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Aug 2023 16:57 (but data presented dynamically)

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