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♂ Robert A. Davis
aliasRobert A. Davis
Record
14663 · 13885

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 0 2
Birth 9 March 1841 → 183 years + 1 month ago
Lived 61 years + 9 months
First mandate 1 April 1874 → 150 years + 26 days ago
↳ at age 33 years
Death 7 January 1903 → 121 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 24 years + 21 days after 17 December 1878
Special notes
None
 
Robert A. Davis (1841–1903)
© Photo Archives of 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 4 8 15 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 1–2
GOV
 1 Premier 33–37 03 Dec 1874 — 15 Oct 1878 3 10 12

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Thomas Scott  m 
 
 
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
1		 Manitoba
1 April 1874
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28273(F) — 6 Feb 2023 10:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
GOV
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 8 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 599 Votes: 381 Participation: 63.61% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
2		 Manitoba
30 December 1874
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28297(F) — 6 Feb 2023 09:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
33
IND
 1/2 198 51.97% +15 Loser:
IND
 183 48.03% Thomas Scott
After his election:
31 Dec 1874 33
IND
 →
GOV
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 3 years 11 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,226 Votes: 292 Participation: 23.82% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
3		 Manitoba
18 December 1878
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28326(F) — 5 Feb 2023 23:57 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
37		 Successor:
IND
 273 93.49% Thomas Scott

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Davis, Robert Atkinson		 31 Jan 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Davis, Robert Atkinson		 31 Jan 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Robert Atkinson Davis (1841-1903)		 31 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Atkinson Davis		 31 Jan 2024
FR Wikipédia
Robert Atkinson Davis		 31 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 31 Jan 2024 22:59 (but data presented dynamically)

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