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♂ John MacDonald
alias"Moscow Jack" MacDonald
Record
37614 · 14806

Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Ontario 0 2 2
Total 0 3 3
Birth 2 February 1888 → 136 years + 3 months ago
Lived 53 years + 9 months
First run 20 October 1919 → 104 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 31 years + 8 months
Death 7 November 1941 → 82 years + 6 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
John (Moscow Jack) MacDonald (1888-1941)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 13–16
COMM
 1 Party leader 33–41 28 May 1921 — 30 Jun 1929 8 1 2

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Horatio C. Hocken  m 
⊖ William McBrien  m 
⊖ Joseph Singer  m 
 		 ⊖ Fred McBrien  m 
⊖ John C. Ramsden  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 47,710 Votes: 31,872 Participation: 55.57% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Ontario
20 October 1919
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFO  Minority
ID: 34233(F) — 28 Aug 2023 14:42 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
31
ILP
 3/3 7,816 24.52% -6,612 Winner:
LIB
 14,428 45.27% John C. Ramsden
Eligible: inc. Votes: 14,763 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
16		 Ontario
25 June 1923
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34360(F) — 16 Oct 2023 20:48 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
35
ILP
 3/4 2,211 14.98% -5,545 Winner:
LC
 7,756 52.54% Frederick G. McBrien
Eligible: 27,902 Votes: 14,537 Participation: 52.10% Candidacies: 3
Federal
16		 Ontario
14 September 1926
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22179(F) — 6 Sep 2021 16:45 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament (Party leader)
Age
38
LAB
 3/3 1,193 8.21% -6,763 Winner:
LC
 7,956 54.73% Horatio C. Hocken

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Jack MacDonald (communist)		  8 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  8 May 2024 22:25 (but data presented dynamically)

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