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♂ Alexander Albert MacLeod
aliasA.A. MacLeod
Record
38314 · 13302

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Ontario 3 1 4
Total 3 2 5
Birth 2 April 1902 → 122 years ago
Lived 67 years + 11 months
First mandate 4 August 1943 → 80 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 41 years + 4 months
Death 13 March 1970 → 54 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 3 months after 21 November 1951
Special notes
None
 
Alexander Albert MacLeod (1902–1970)
© Photo Archives of Ontario — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
MacLeod was one of two communists, along with Joseph Salsberg, to sit in the Ontario legislature from 1945 to 1951. While their political views were often con­sid­ered unpopular, Progressive Conservative premier Leslie Frost did say of them that, "Those two had more brains between them than the rest of the opposition put together."
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 8 3 15 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. ON 22–23
LPP
 1 Party leader 43–49 01 Aug 1945 — 30 Jun 1951 5 10 29

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Cora T. Casselman  f 
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
 		 ⊖ Joseph M. Gould (Gold)  m 
⊖ John Yaremko  m 
 
Eligible: 30,816 Votes: 14,110 Participation: 45.79% Candidacies: 3
Federal
19		 Alberta
2 June 1941
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23108(F) — 6 Sep 2022 20:52 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
39
LPP
 3/3 2,605 18.46% -4,701 Winner:
LIB
 7,306 51.78% Cora T. Casselman
Eligible: 27,107 Votes: 14,437 Participation: 53.26% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
21		 Ontario
4 August 1943
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 34829(F) — 23 Dec 2022 15:06 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
41
LPP
 1/4 4,312 30.37% +526 Loser:
PC
 3,786 26.66% J.P. Williams

Service: 1 year 9 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 29,597 Votes: 20,647 Participation: 69.76% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
22		 Ontario
4 June 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 34920(F) — 23 Dec 2022 19:17 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LPP
 1/4 6,799 33.62% +816 Loser:
PC
 5,983 29.58% J.P. Williams

Service: 3 years 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 30,542 Votes: 21,241 Participation: 69.55% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
23		 Ontario
7 June 1948
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35011(F) — 2 Oct 2021 13:10 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
46
LPP
 1/4 7,764 37.17% +1,286 Loser:
PC
 6,478 31.01% G.E. Renison

Service: 3 years 5 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 26,610 Votes: 17,180 Participation: 64.56% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Ontario
22 November 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35104(F) — 27 Apr 2024 15:00 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
49
LPP
 3/4 3,357 20.12% -2,214 Winner:
PC
 5,571 33.39% John Yaremko

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Albert Alexander MacLeod		 18 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Albert Alexander MacLeod		 18 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
A.A. MacLeod		 18 Apr 2024

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