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♂ Joshua Hinchcliffe
aliasJoshua Hinchcliffe
Record
27613 · 13672

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 4 1 5
Birth 24 May 1868 → 155 years + 11 months ago
Lived ± 85 years
First mandate 1 December 1920 → 103 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 6 months
Death c. 1954 → 70 years ago
Exit → Death ± 20 years + 2 months after 1 November 1933
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 12 9 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 6  
15 documented challengers
⊖ James H. Beatty  m 
⊖ Joseph B. Clearihue  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Henry C. Hall  m 
⊖ James H. Hawthornthwaite  m 
⊖ Robert A. (Gus) Lyons  m 
⊖ John Oliver  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William T. Straith  m 
⊖ Francis A. Walker  m 
 		 ⊖ George Bell  m 
⊖ Francis W.H. Giolma  m 
⊖ John Hart  m 
⊖ Reginald Hayward  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John D. MacLean  m 
⊖ Dorothy G. Steeves  f 
⊖ Harold D. Twigg  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 18,996 Votes: 53,936 Participation: 70.98% Candidacies: 19
Provincial
15		 British Columbia
1 December 1920
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 29240(F) — 2 Aug 2023 17:26 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
LC
 2/19 5,305 39.34% +1,135 Loser:
LC
 4,170 30.93% Alexander Stewart

Service: 3 years 6 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 22,195 Votes: 51,675 Participation: 58.21% Candidacies: 16
Provincial
16		 British Columbia
20 June 1924
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 29284(F) — 12 Aug 2023 21:18 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
LC
 2/16 6,118 47.36% +1,980 Loser:
LIB
 4,138 32.03% Melbourne Raynor

Service: 4 years 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 23,070 Votes: 57,708 Participation: 62.54% Candidacies: 12
Provincial
17		 British Columbia
18 July 1928
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 29372(F) — 26 Jul 2023 23:42 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
CONS
 2/12 7,614 52.78% +942 Loser:
LIB
 6,672 46.25% John D. MacLean
After his election:
21 Sep 1928 60
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 2 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 23,070 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
17		 British Columbia
22 October 1928
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 29382(F) — 26 Jul 2023 23:42 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
CONS
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 5 years 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 24,061 Votes: 65,501 Participation: 68.06% Candidacies: 28
Provincial
18		 British Columbia
27 November 1933
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 29426(F) — 16 Sep 2023 07:35 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
65		 Successor:
CFF
 5,607 34.24% Robert Connell
Eligible: 14,099 Votes: 10,589 Participation: 75.10% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
20		 British Columbia
21 October 1941
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 29536(F) — 30 Jul 2021 23:22 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
73
CONS
 4/5 1,056 10.13% -3,153 Winner:
CFF
 4,209 40.37% Dorothy G. Steeves

Online biographical reference

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Joshua Hinchcliffe		 24 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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