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♂ Hugh Watt
aliasHugh Watt
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
British Columbia 1 1 2
Total 1 2 3
Birth 9 September 1841 → 182 years + 7 months ago
Lived 72 years + 6 months
First mandate 24 August 1892 → 131 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 11 months
Death 21 March 1914 → 110 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 19 years + 8 months after 6 July 1894
Special notes
None
 
Hugh Watt (1841–1914)
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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 10 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
6 documented challengers
⊖ William Adams  m 
⊖ John C. Kinchant  m 
⊖ William Morrison  m 
 		 ⊖ Frank S. Barnard  m 
⊖ Robert McLeese  m 
⊖ Samuel A. Rogers  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 417 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
7		 British Columbia
5 March 1891
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 19773(F) — 9 Jan 2024 21:49 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
49
LIB
 2/2 194 46.52% -29 Winner:
CONS
 223 53.48% Frank S. Barnard
Eligible: 374 Votes: 222 Participation: 59.36% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
6		 British Columbia
24 August 1892
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28725(F) — 9 Jan 2024 21:49 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
GOV
 1/2 117 52.70% +12 Loser:
GOV
 105 47.30% William Morrison

Service: 1 year 10 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 456 Votes: 689 Participation: 75.55% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
7		 British Columbia
7 July 1894
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28728(F) — 9 Jan 2024 21:49 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
52
GOV
 4/5 138 40.00% -9 Winner:
GOV
 147 42.61% William Adams

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Dr Hugh Watt		 09 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Hugh Watt (Canadian politician)		 09 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Jan 2024 21:52 (but data presented dynamically)

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