Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → J.G. True Davidson

♀ J.G. True Davidson
aliasJ.G. True Davidson
Record
14520 · 13426

☆   Methodist   
Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Ontario 0 2 2
Total 0 3 3
Birth 19 April 1901 → 123 years ago
Lived 77 years + 4 months
First run 10 August 1953 → 70 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 3 months
Death 18 September 1978 → 45 years + 7 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
J.G. True Davidson (1901–1978)
© Photo — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Davidson joined the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1934 after meeting J.S. Woodsworth, about whom she said, "He had a burning fire of love for people. You could warm your hands in his personality." She ran twice for the CCF — once federally and once provincially — but left the party after it merged with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the NDP, and ran for the Ontario Liberals in 1971. Reflecting at that time on her runs for the CCF, she said, "I don't know why I ran. I had no thought of winning."
 

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Hollis E. Beckett  m 
⊖ Arthur K. Meen  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert H. McGregor  m 
 
Eligible: 45,061 Votes: 26,319 Participation: 58.41% Candidacies: 4
Federal
22		 Ontario
10 August 1953
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23833(F) — 5 Aug 2023 09:26 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
52
CCF
 3/4 5,815 22.32% -5,247 Winner:
PC
 11,062 42.46% Robert H. McGregor
Eligible: 79,571 Votes: 41,923 Participation: 52.69% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Ontario
9 June 1955
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 35282(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
54
CCF
 3/3 10,982 26.60% -7,949 Winner:
PC
 18,931 45.86% Hollis E. Beckett
Eligible: 47,278 Votes: 35,378 Participation: 74.83% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Ontario
21 October 1971
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14187(F) — 1 Aug 2021 19:21 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
70
LIB
 2/3 9,940 28.26% -7,890 Winner:
PC
 17,830 50.69% Arthur K. Meen

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
True Davidson		 11 Feb 2024

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 11 Feb 2024 23:54 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.