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♂ Jacob Baxter
aliasJacob Baxter
Record
3109 · 11618

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 89%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 8 1 9
Birth 6 June 1832 → 191 years + 10 months ago
Lived 80 years + 1 month
First mandate 3 September 1867 → 156 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 35 years + 2 months
Death 23 July 1912 → 111 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 14 years + 4 months after 28 February 1898
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 29 8 27 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. ON 6
LIB
 1 Speaker 54–57 10 Feb 1887 — 07 Apr 1890 3 1 28

Electoral history

Races 9  
Path points 10  
1 documented challenger
⊖ John Senn  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 3,114 Votes: 2,440 Participation: 78.36% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
1		 Ontario
3 September 1867
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Minority
ID: 32623(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
35
LIB
 1/2 1,377 56.43% +314 Loser:
LC
 1,063 43.57% ? Hurssell

Service: 3 years 6 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,329 Votes: 1,994 Participation: 59.90% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
2		 Ontario
21 March 1871
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Minority
 LIB  18 Dec 1871
ID: 32706(F) — 22 Jul 2023 17:47 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
LIB
 1/2 1,212 60.78% +430 Loser:
LC
 782 39.22% ? Amsden
After his election:
18 Dec 1871 39
LC
 →
LIB
 Change of government (became part of government)
Service: 3 years 9 months 27 days (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: 3,613 Votes: 2,740 Participation: 75.84% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
3		 Ontario
18 January 1875
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32788(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
LIB
 1/2 1,476 53.87% +212 Loser:
LC
 1,264 46.13% R. Waldbrook

Service: 4 years 4 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,134 Votes: 3,160 Participation: 76.44% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
4		 Ontario
5 June 1879
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32879(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
LIB
 1/2 1,612 51.01% +64 Loser:
LC
 1,548 48.99% ? Thompson

Service: 3 years 8 months 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,285 Votes: 3,380 Participation: 78.88% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
5		 Ontario
27 February 1883
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32967(F) — 31 Dec 2022 16:08 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
LIB
 1/2 1,708 50.91% +61 Loser:
LC
 1,647 49.09% ? Thompson

Service: 3 years 10 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,957 Votes: 3,607 Participation: 72.77% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
6		 Ontario
28 December 1886
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33156(F) — 31 Dec 2022 14:38 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
LIB
 1/2 1,936 53.67% +265 Loser:
LC
 1,671 46.33% G. Martin

Service: 3 years 5 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,584 Votes: 3,713 Participation: 81.00% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
7		 Ontario
5 June 1890
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33249(F) — 31 Dec 2022 12:16 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
LIB
 1/2 2,000 54.54% +333 Loser:
LC
 1,667 45.46% E.E. Sheppard

Service: 4 years 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,455 Votes: 3,386 Participation: 76.00% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Ontario
26 June 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33338(F) — 22 Oct 2023 12:19 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
62
LIB
 2/2 1,678 49.78% -15 Winner:
LC
 1,693 50.22% John Senn
Eligible: 4,455 Votes: 3 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Ontario
19 March 1895
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33726(F) — 22 Oct 2023 12:19 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
62
LIB
 1/2 2 66.67% +1 Loser:
LC
 1 33.33% John Senn

Service: 2 years 11 months 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,501 Votes: 3,832 Participation: 85.14% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Ontario
1 March 1898
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33432(F) — 30 Dec 2022 18:53 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
65		 Successor:
LIB
 1,957 51.34% Joseph W. Holmes

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Jacob Baxter		 26 Jul 2023
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Jacob Baxter		 26 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
Jacob Baxter		 26 Jul 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Jul 2023 23:20 (but data presented dynamically)

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