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♂ John T. Haig
aliasJohn T. Haig
Record
25305 · 14351

Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 1 6
Birth 15 December 1877 → 146 years + 4 months ago
Lived 84 years + 10 months
First mandate 10 July 1914 → 109 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 6 months
Death 23 October 1962 → 61 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 2 months after 12 August 1935
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 16 2 5 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 23
PC
 1 Minister 79–80 09 Oct 1957 — 11 May 1958 0 7 2
 1. Without portfolio

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
78 documented challengers
⊖ Victor B. Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ William D. Bayley  m 
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ George F. Chipman  m 
⊖ Richard W. Craig  m 
⊖ Frederick J. Dixon  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John K. Downes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Edward B. Fisher  m 
⊖ Walter J. Fulton  m 
⊖ Thomas G. Hamilton  m 
⊖ H.P. Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m 
⊖ Robert Jacob  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas H. Johnson  m 
⊖ Huntly D.B. Ketchen  m 
⊖ George H. Lawrence  m 
⊖ Walter J. Lindal  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m 
⊖ William R. Milton  m 
⊖ Arthur E. Moore  m 
⊖ Leslie T. Morris  m 
⊖ Charles K. Newcombe  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William A. Pritchard  m 
⊖ Arthur W. Puttee  m 
⊖ John Y. Reid  m 
⊖ Edith F. Rogers  f  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert B. Russell  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ John Stovel  m 
⊖ R. Wesley B. Swail  m 
⊖ William V. Tobias  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Tupper  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John W. Wilton  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Constantine H. Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ James A. Barry  m 
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f 
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Christie  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ William J. Donovan  m 
⊖ Bernard B. Dubienski  m 
⊖ Árni Eggertsson  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Charles H. Forrester  m 
⊖ Robert A. Gillespie  m 
⊖ Martha J.R. Hample  f 
⊖ Theodore A. Hunt  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Richard J. Johns  m 
⊖ Clarence G. Keith  m 
⊖ Frederick W. Law  m 
⊖ James Lightfoot  m 
⊖ Robert N. Lowery  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ H. Ralph Maybank  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Daniel McLean  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William C. Morden  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas J. Murray  m 
⊖ William L. Parrish  m 
⊖ Matthew Popovitch  m 
⊖ George W. Prout  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Hugh A. Robson  m 
⊖ Francis W. Russell  m 
⊖ Francis Sedziak  m 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ Arthur Sullivan  m 
⊖ Frederick G. Tipping  m 
⊖ Walter H. Trueman  m 
⊖ Leoni S. Warde  m 
⊖ James Winning  m 
 
Eligible: 3,094 Votes: 2,705 Participation: 87.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36989(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
CONS
 1/3 1,239 45.80% +274 Loser:
LIB
 965 35.67% John W. Wilton

Service: 1 year 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,580 Votes: 2,191 Participation: 84.92% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37039(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
37
CONS
 2/3 773 35.28% -55 Winner:
LIB
 828 37.79% John W. Wilton
Eligible: 62,255 Votes: 47,427 Participation: 76.18% Candidacies: 41
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37184(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
42
CONS
 4/41 1,893 3.99% +358 Loser:
SOC
 1,535 3.24% Robert B. Russell

Service: 2 years 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 61,662 Votes: 44,328 Participation: 71.89% Candidacies: 43
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37233(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
CONS
 5/43 2,406 5.43% +811 Loser:
LIB
 1,595 3.60% Duncan Cameron

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 67,124 Votes: 50,706 Participation: 62.30% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37331(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
CONS
 1/25 5,108 10.07% +3,061 Loser:
MOD
 2,047 4.04% John K. Downes

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 119,754 Votes: 76,991 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37381(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
CONS
 3/29 4,432 5.76% +977 Loser:
COMM
 3,455 4.49% Leslie T. Morris
After his election:
12 Aug 1935 57
CONS
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 3 years 1 month 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 133,666 Votes: 80,830 Participation: 60.47% Candidacies: 21
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37431(F) — 17 Aug 2023 08:01 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
ILCF
 3,459 4.36% Marcus Hyman

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Haig, John Thomas		 10 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Haig, John Thomas		 10 Aug 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
John Thomas Haig (1877-1962)		 10 Aug 2023
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. John Thomas Haig, P.C., Senator		 10 Aug 2023
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. John Thomas Haig, C.P., sénateur		 10 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
John Thomas Haig		 10 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 10 Aug 2023 20:55 (but data presented dynamically)

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