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♂ James A. Barry
aliasJames A. Barry
Record
2891 · 14710

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 13 January 1886 → 138 years + 3 months ago
Lived 64 years + 4 months
First mandate 27 July 1936 → 87 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 6 months
Death 21 May 1950 → 73 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 9 years + 1 month after 21 April 1941
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 4 8 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
46 documented challengers
⊖ Victor B. Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m 
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ John K. Downes  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m 
⊖ Walter J. Fulton  m 
⊖ John T. Haig  m 
⊖ Madeline E. Hryniewiecki  f 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Clarence G. Keith  m 
⊖ Stanley H. Knowles  m 
⊖ James Litterick  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Leslie T. Morris  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m 
⊖ Laurier A. Régnier  m 
⊖ Cecil Rice-Jones  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ Lewis St. George Stubbs  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Gunnar S. Thorvaldson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick E. Warriner  m 
 		 ⊖ Constantine H. Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ Paul Bardal  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ Harrison Dysart  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Morris A. Gray  m 
⊖ H.P. Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William A. Kardash  m 
⊖ Huntly D.B. Ketchen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Stephen N. Krawchyk  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ H. Ralph Maybank  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m 
⊖ Asta A. Oddson  f 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John Y. Reid  m 
⊖ Francis W. Russell  m 
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m 
⊖ R. Wesley B. Swail  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William V. Tobias  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ralph H. Webb  m 
 
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
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
46
CONS
 17/29 1,549 2.01% -1,396 Winner:
LIBP
 2,945 3.83% H. Ralph Maybank
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
CONS
 7/21 4,055 5.11% +206 Loser:
LIBP
 3,849 4.85% Mary Dyma
After his election:
17 Nov 1940 54
CONS
 →
CONS
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 8 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 137,437 Votes: 59,715 Participation: 43.45% Candidacies: 27
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37477(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
55
CONS
 12/27 2,492 4.25% -594 Winner:
CCF
 3,086 5.26% Morris A. Gray

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Barry, James Alexander		 26 Jul 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Barry, James Alexander		 26 Jul 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Alexander Barry (1886-1950)		 26 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
James Alexander Barry		 26 Jul 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Jul 2023 22:39 (but data presented dynamically)

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