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♂ William Osborne Smith
aliasWilliam Osborne Smith
Record
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Irish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 0 1 1
Total 0 2 2
Birth c. 1831 → 193 years ago
Lived ± 56 years
First run 20 June 1882 → 141 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age ± 51 years
Death c. May 1887 → 137 years ago
 
Special notes
Born W.H. Smith of Hendreowen.
 
William Osborne Smith (1831–1887)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Elias G. Conklin  m 
⊖ Thomas Scott  m 
 		 ⊖ Alphonse-Fortunat Martin  m 
⊖ Henry J. Tennant  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 949 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
5		 Manitoba
20 June 1882
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 19381(F) — 28 Apr 2024 20:17 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
±51
nd
 3/3 73 7.69% -418 Winner:
CONS
 491 51.74% Thomas Scott
Eligible: 1,962 Votes: 563 Participation: 28.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
6		 Manitoba
9 December 1886
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36483(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
±55
IND
 3/3 144 25.58% -105 Winner:
LIB
 249 44.23% Alphonse-Fortunat Martin

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William Osborne Smith (1831-1887)		 28 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
William Osborne Smith		 28 Apr 2024

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