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♂ A. Wallace Downer
aliasA. Wallace Downer
Record
16840 · 11495

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 91%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 10 1 11
Birth 1 May 1904 → 120 years ago
Lived 90 years + 3 months
First mandate 6 October 1937 → 86 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 5 months
Death 3 August 1994 → 29 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 10 months after 17 September 1975
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
Ontario 37 11 2 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. ON 25
PC
 1 Speaker 51–54 08 Sep 1955 — 26 Mar 1959 3 6 18

Electoral history

Races 11  
Path points 12  
3 documented challengers
⊖ R. Walter Elliot  m 
⊖ Wilfred D. Smith  m 
 		 ⊖ George A. McQuibban  m 
 
Eligible: 13,769 Votes: 9,879 Participation: 71.75% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
18		 Ontario
30 October 1929
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34606(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
25
LC
 2/2 3,544 36.05% -2,744 Winner:
LIB
 6,288 63.95% George A. McQuibban
Eligible: 21,922 Votes: 16,104 Participation: 73.46% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
20		 Ontario
6 October 1937
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 34739(F) — 27 Dec 2022 20:59 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
LC
 1/2 8,484 53.22% +1,027 Loser:
LIB
 7,457 46.78% Wilfred D. Smith

Service: 5 years 9 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 21,432 Votes: 10,400 Participation: 48.53% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
21		 Ontario
4 August 1943
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 34838(F) — 23 Dec 2022 12:57 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
PC
 1/3 5,134 49.79% +2,513 Loser:
LIB
 2,621 25.42% Charles Henry

Service: 1 year 9 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 20,265 Votes: 12,506 Participation: 61.71% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
22		 Ontario
4 June 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 34929(F) — 23 Dec 2022 18:38 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
PC
 1/2 9,216 74.30% +6,028 Loser:
CCF
 3,188 25.70% Richard McCulloch

Service: 3 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 22,568 Votes: 13,069 Participation: 57.91% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 Ontario
7 June 1948
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35020(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
PC
 1/3 7,035 54.13% +2,499 Loser:
LIB
 4,536 34.90% Charles Maitland

Service: 3 years 5 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 20,736 Votes: 12,964 Participation: 62.52% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Ontario
22 November 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35113(F) — 23 Dec 2022 20:43 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
PC
 1/3 7,535 58.33% +2,966 Loser:
LIB
 4,569 35.37% William Hunter

Service: 3 years 6 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 21,875 Votes: 12,622 Participation: 57.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Ontario
9 June 1955
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35208(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
PC
 1/3 7,778 62.09% +3,731 Loser:
LIB
 4,047 32.31% William Hunter

Service: 4 years 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 23,310 Votes: 12,285 Participation: 52.70% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
26		 Ontario
11 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35318(F) — 24 Dec 2022 11:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
PC
 1/2 8,390 68.90% +4,603 Loser:
LIB
 3,787 31.10% Robert M. Wales

Service: 4 years 3 months 13 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 24,378 Votes: 13,495 Participation: 55.36% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Ontario
25 September 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35424(F) — 24 Dec 2022 15:34 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
PC
 1/3 8,875 66.29% +5,260 Loser:
LIB
 3,615 27.00% James Cooke

Service: 4 years 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 26,289 Votes: 13,874 Participation: 52.77% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Ontario
17 October 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13973(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
PC
 1/3 7,973 57.88% +4,115 Loser:
LIB
 3,858 28.01% Josephine Casey

Service: 4 years 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 34,187 Votes: 23,342 Participation: 68.28% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Ontario
21 October 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14092(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
67
PC
 1/3 12,063 51.97% +4,454 Loser:
LIB
 7,609 32.78% R. Walter Elliot

Service: 3 years 10 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 45,357 Votes: 31,078 Participation: 68.52% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Ontario
18 September 1975
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 12437(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
71		 Successor:
PC
 14,201 45.88% George R. McCague

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Alfred Wallace Downer		 05 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Alfred Wallace Downer		 05 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Wally Downer		 05 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  5 Aug 2023 22:51 (but data presented dynamically)

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