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♂ C. Hedley Forbes
aliasC. Hedley Forbes
Record
20322 · 11071

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 2 3
Birth 27 May 1896 → 127 years + 11 months ago
Lived 82 years + 9 months
First mandate 20 November 1939 → 84 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 5 months
Death 24 March 1979 → 45 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 34 years + 6 months after 27 August 1944
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 4 9 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
13 documented challengers
⊖ Donald T. Cochrane  m 
⊖ Benjamin H. Dougan  m 
⊖ Harry C. Greenlaw  m 
⊖ Marcus L. Jewett  m 
⊖ John B. McNair  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Charles Price  m 
⊖ William J. West  m 
 		 ⊖ Harry A. Corey  m 
⊖ Stewart E. Durling  m 
⊖ H. Ralph Gunter  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Arthur J. McEvoy  m 
⊖ J. Rutherford Messer  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest W. Stairs  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 65,098 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
38		 New Brunswick
27 June 1935
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32386(F) — 6 Aug 2023 20:20 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
39
CONS
 5/8 7,310 44.92% -1,643 Winner:
LIB
 8,953 55.01% Stewart E. Durling
Eligible: inc. Votes: 68,970 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32403(F) — 6 Aug 2023 20:20 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
CONS
 1/8 8,942 51.86% +507 Loser:
LIB
 8,435 48.92% John B. McNair

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 68,222 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32423(F) — 6 Aug 2023 20:20 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
48
PC
 5/12 7,606 44.59% -99 Winner:
LIB
 7,705 45.17% Donald T. Cochrane

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Charles Hedley Forbes		 06 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
C. Hedley Forbes		 06 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  6 Aug 2023 20:20 (but data presented dynamically)

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