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♂ Charles B. Edie
aliasCharles B. Edie
Record
18220 · 13989

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth c. 1842 → 182 years ago
Lived ± 46 years
First mandate 17 August 1882 → 141 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age ± 40 years
Death 8 February 1888 → 136 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 5 years + 17 days after 22 January 1883
Special notes
None
 
Charles B. Edie (c.1842–1888)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Winning the August 1882 by-election in Springfield, Edie, a Manitoba Conservative, never got to take his seat: John Bell defeated him in the January 1883 general election.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 0 5 5 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ John H. Bell  m 
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 296 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
4		 Manitoba
17 August 1882
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 28366(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±40
CONS
 1/2 179 60.47% +62 Loser:
LIB
 117 39.53% John Matheson

Service: 5 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 331 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
5		 Manitoba
23 January 1883
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 28384(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
±41
CONS
 2/2 162 48.94% -7 Winner:
LIB
 169 51.06% John H. Bell

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Edie, Charles B.		 25 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Edie, Charles B.		 25 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Charles Bruce Edie (1842-1888)		 25 Feb 2024

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