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♂ W. Grant Smith
aliasW. Grant Smith
Record
57783 · 11140

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 1 3
Birth 11 January 1893 → 131 years + 3 months ago
Lived 64 years + 6 months
First mandate 20 November 1939 → 84 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 46 years + 10 months
Death 16 July 1957 → 66 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 9 years + 19 days after 27 June 1948
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 8 7 6 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
12 documented challengers
⊖ James W. Brittain  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Laurance T. Dow  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Edward J. Henneberry  m 
⊖ Edward R. McDonald  m 
⊖ Alexander P. Paterson  m 
⊖ William J. Swanton  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert H. Carlin  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harold B. Gault  m 
⊖ S. Roy Kelly  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ralph G. McInerney  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Horace A. Porter  m 
⊖ James S. Tait  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 64,539 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 9
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32398(F) — 17 Jun 2023 09:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
CONS
 1/9 9,091 56.34% +1,517 Loser:
LIB
 7,574 46.94% Edward J. Henneberry

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 78,259 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32418(F) — 17 Jun 2023 09:02 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
PC
 1/12 8,247 42.15% +1,296 Loser:
LIB
 6,951 35.53% James W. Brittain

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 78,348 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32438(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
55
PC
 5/12 7,207 36.79% -2,018 Winner:
LIB
 9,225 47.10% Harold B. Gault

Online biographical reference

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W. Grant Smith		 16 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 16 Oct 2023 13:08 (but data presented dynamically)

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