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♂ William C. Milby
aliasWilliam C. Milby
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 1 2 3
Birth c. 1837 → 187 years ago
Lived ± 40 years
First mandate 24 August 1876 → 147 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age ± 39 years
Death 26 October 1877 → 146 years + 6 months ago
Died in office Yes
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
British Columbia 1 2 1 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Robert L.T. Galbraith  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John A. Mara  m 
⊖ Arthur W. Vowell  m 
 		 ⊖ Charles Gallagher  m 
⊖ Charles Todd  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 39 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
1		 British Columbia
15 December 1871
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28602(F) — 7 Oct 2023 19:49 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±34
IND
 3/3 9 45.00% -4 Winner:
IND
 13 65.00% Charles Todd
Eligible: 45 Votes: 63 Participation: 70.00% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
2		 British Columbia
7 October 1875
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28624(F) — 7 Oct 2023 19:35 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±38
GOV
 4/4 15 46.88% -1 Winner:
REF
 16 50.00% Arthur W. Vowell
Eligible: 45 Votes: 28 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
2		 British Columbia
24 August 1876
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28636(F) — 7 Oct 2023 19:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±39
GOV
 1/2 14 50.00% 0 Loser:
GOV
 14 50.00% Robert L.T. Galbraith
After his election:
26 Oct 1877 ±40
GOV
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 1 year 2 months 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 45 Votes: 34 Participation: 75.56% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
2		 British Columbia
20 December 1877
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28639(F) — 23 Jul 2023 18:43 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
±40		 Successor:
OPPO
 21 61.76% Robert L.T. Galbraith

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Elections BC and the Legislative Library, An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986
(pp. 11, 21, 24, 26, 392)		 24 Oct 2023
EN Find a Grave
W.C. Milby		 24 Oct 2023

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