Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → William Wedderburn

♂ William Wedderburn
aliasWilliam Wedderburn
Record
64434 · 11088

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 0 3
Birth 12 October 1834 → 189 years + 6 months ago
Lived 83 years + 5 months
First mandate 30 June 1870 → 153 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 35 years + 8 months
Death 5 April 1918 → 106 years ago
Exit → Death 35 years + 10 months after 31 May 1882
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 11 10 13 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 23
IND
 1 Speaker 40–43 18 Feb 1875 — 31 May 1878 3 3 13

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Aaron Alward  m 
⊖ Robert Marshall  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ William H.A. Keans  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Acalus L. Palmer  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,245 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
22		 New Brunswick
30 June 1870
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 31978(F) — 14 Jun 2023 23:08 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
35
IND
 2/5 979 46.11% +135 Loser:
LIB
 844 39.76% Acalus L. Palmer

Service: 3 years 11 months 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,215 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 New Brunswick
5 June 1874
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 31993(F) — 14 Jun 2023 23:08 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
IND
 1/3 1,691 80.22% +713 Loser:
LIB
 978 46.39% Robert Marshall

Service: 3 years 11 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,655 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 New Brunswick
13 June 1878
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32032(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
IND
 1/4 1,503 64.56% +238 Loser:
CONS
 1,265 54.34% Charles Everitt

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,423 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
25		 New Brunswick
22 June 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32053(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
CONS
 1,118 50.54% Ezekiel McLeod

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. William Wedderburn		 29 Jul 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. William Wedderburn		 29 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
William Wedderburn (Canadian politician)		 29 Jul 2023

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 29 Jul 2023 22:10 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.