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♂ William A. Macdonald
aliasWilliam A. Macdonald
Record
37716 · 14054

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 7 June 1860 → 163 years + 10 months ago
Lived 86 years + 3 months
First mandate 23 July 1892 → 131 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 32 years + 1 month
Death 1 October 1946 → 77 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 53 years + 1 month after 1 September 1893
Special notes
None
 

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 1 1 9 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 8
CONS
 1 Opposition Leader 32–33 23 Jul 1892 — 01 Sep 1893 1 1 9

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Charles Adams  m 
⊖ James A. Smart  m 
 		 ⊖ Clifford Sifton  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 628 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
7		 Manitoba
11 July 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36551(F) — 26 Aug 2023 15:03 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
28
CONS
 2/2 293 46.66% -42 Winner:
LIB
 335 53.34% Clifford Sifton
Eligible: 1,561 Votes: 1,326 Participation: 84.95% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Manitoba
23 July 1892
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36561(F) — 26 Aug 2023 15:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
32
CONS
 1/2 669 50.45% +12 Loser:
LIB
 657 49.55% James A. Smart
After his election:
1 Sep 1893 33
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Election cancelled/Unseated
Service: 1 year 1 month 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,561 Votes: 1,125 Participation: 72.07% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Manitoba
18 September 1893
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36601(F) — 26 Aug 2023 15:00 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
33
CONS
 2/2 547 48.62% -31 Winner:
LIB
 578 51.38% Charles Adams

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Macdonald, William Alexander		 26 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Macdonald, William Alexander		 26 Aug 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William Alexander Macdonald (1860-1946)		 26 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
William Alexander Macdonald		 26 Aug 2023
FR Wikipédia
William Alexander Macdonald		 26 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Aug 2023 15:10 (but data presented dynamically)

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