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♂ William Buchanan
aliasWilliam Buchanan
Record
8021 · 14361

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth 17 June 1865 → 158 years + 10 months ago
Lived 79 years + 1 month
First mandate 10 July 1914 → 109 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 49 years
Death 11 August 1944 → 79 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 29 years + 6 days after 5 August 1915
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 0 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ William J. Harrington  m 
 
 
Eligible: 2,096 Votes: 1,736 Participation: 82.82% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36996(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
CONS
 1/2 1,026 59.10% +316 Loser:
LIB
 710 40.90% John Seale

Service: 1 year 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,110 Votes: 1,609 Participation: 76.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37046(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
50
CONS
 2/3 637 39.59% -102 Winner:
LIB
 739 45.93% William J. Harrington

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Buchanan, William		 28 Jul 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Buchanan, William		 28 Jul 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William "Bill" Buchanan (1865-1944)		 28 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
William Buchanan (Manitoba politician)		 28 Jul 2023

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