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♂ Edward Briggs
aliasEdward Briggs
Record
7220 · 14365

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth 25 February 1854 → 170 years + 2 months ago
Lived 87 years + 9 months
First mandate 20 July 1903 → 120 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 4 months
Death 14 December 1941 → 82 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 34 years + 9 months after 6 March 1907
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 3 7 16 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ George Paterson  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert S. Thornton  m 
 
Eligible: 1,448 Votes: 1,323 Participation: 91.37% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36854(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
CONS
 1/3 457 34.54% +20 Loser:
PROH
 437 33.03% H.L. Montgomery

Service: 3 years 7 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,500 Votes: 1,163 Participation: 77.53% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36900(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
53
CONS
 2/2 561 48.24% -41 Winner:
LIB
 602 51.76% Robert S. Thornton

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Briggs, Edward		 28 Jul 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Briggs, Edward		 28 Jul 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Edward Briggs (1854-1941)		 28 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
Edward Briggs (politician)		 28 Jul 2023

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