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♂ James B. Baird
aliasJames B. Baird
Record
2295 · 14003

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 71%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 2 7
Birth 7 March 1859 → 165 years + 1 month ago
Lived 80 years + 7 months
First mandate 7 March 1907 → 117 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 48 years
Death 6 November 1939 → 84 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 17 years + 3 months after 17 July 1922
Special notes
None
 
James B. Baird (1859–1939)
© Photo 1921 Archives of Manitoba vai 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 15 4 6 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 15–16
LIB
 1 Speaker 56–62 06 Jan 1916 — 24 Jan 1922 6 0 18

Electoral history

Races 7  
Path points 7  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Charles R.L. Cannon  m 
⊖ Edmund L. Taylor  m 
 		 ⊖ Daniel A. McIntyre  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 1,979 Votes: 1,674 Participation: 84.59% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
27 April 1905
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36889(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
46
LIB
 2/2 764 45.64% -146 Winner:
CONS
 910 54.36% Daniel A. McIntyre
Eligible: 2,173 Votes: 1,629 Participation: 74.97% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36916(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
LIB
 1/2 1,031 63.29% +433 Loser:
CONS
 598 36.71% Daniel A. McIntyre

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 2,320 Votes: 1,900 Participation: 81.90% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36965(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
LIB
 1/2 1,086 57.16% +272 Loser:
CONS
 814 42.84% Edmund L. Taylor

Service: 3 years 11 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 2,458 Votes: 2,022 Participation: 82.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 37013(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
LIB
 1/3 1,200 59.35% +684 Loser:
CONS
 516 25.52% John T. Dale

Service: 1 year 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 2,476 Votes: 1,750 Participation: 70.68% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37067(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
LIB
 1/2 1,331 76.06% +912 Loser:
CONS
 419 23.94% John T. Dale

Service: 4 years 10 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,027 Votes: 2,482 Participation: 61.63% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37169(F) — 12 Sep 2022 18:45 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
61
LIB
 1/2 1,304 52.54% +126 Loser:
FARM
 1,178 47.46% Andrew Young

Service: 2 years 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,331 Votes: 3,126 Participation: 72.18% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37217(F) — 20 Mar 2022 15:47 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
63
LIB
 2/3 968 30.97% -612 Winner:
PROG
 1,580 50.54% Charles R.L. Cannon

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Baird, James Bryson		 10 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Baird, James Bryson		 10 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Bryson Baird (1859-1939)		 10 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Bryson Baird		 10 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 10 Feb 2024 16:00 (but data presented dynamically)

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