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♂ James Cunningham
aliasJames Cunningham
Record
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Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth c. 1823 → 201 years ago
Lived ± 92 years
First mandate 31 March 1871 → 153 years + 27 days ago
↳ at age ± 48 years
Death 27 April 1915 → 109 years ago
Exit → Death 40 years + 3 months after 29 December 1874
Special notes
None
 
James Cunningham (c.1823–1915)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 3 8 29 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Alexander (Sandy) Murray  m 
 		 ⊖ John Taylor  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 63 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
1		 Manitoba
27 December 1870
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28249(F) — 30 Sep 2023 12:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
±47
IND
 2/2 31 49.21% -1 Winner:
IND
 32 50.79% John Taylor
Eligible: inc. Votes: 61 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
1		 Manitoba
31 March 1871
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28272(F) — 30 Sep 2023 12:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±48
GOV
 1/2 31 50.82% +1 Loser:
OPPO
 30 49.18% John Taylor

Service: 3 years 8 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 196 Votes: 113 Participation: 57.65% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
2		 Manitoba
30 December 1874
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28275(F) — 30 Sep 2023 12:41 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±51		 Successor:
IND
 59 52.21% John Taylor
Eligible: inc. Votes: 132 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
5		 Manitoba
23 January 1883
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 28369(F) — 30 Sep 2023 11:59 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
±60
LIB
 2/2 37 28.03% -58 Winner:
CONS
 95 71.97% Alexander (Sandy) Murray

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
James Cunningham		 31 Jan 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Cunningham, James		 31 Jan 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Cunningham, James		 31 Jan 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Cunningham (1823-1915)		 31 Jan 2024

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