Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → Eugene T. Kingsley

♂ Eugene Thornton Kingsley
aliasE.T. Kingsley
Record
31928 · 15181

☆  
Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate ✓		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 3 3
British Columbia 0 3 3
Total 0 6 6
Birth c. 1856 → 168 years ago
Lived ± 73 years
First run 1 February 1907 → 117 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age ± 51 years
Death 9 December 1929 → 94 years + 4 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Eugene Thornton Kingsley (c.1856–1929)
© Photo Scribbler54 — licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Kingsley was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of Canada. Born in the United States, he had become radicalized following a train accident in Montana in 1890 that resulted in the amputation of both his legs. While recovering in hospital, he read the works of Marx and Engels. Invited by the Nanaimo Socialist Club to speak on a tour of Vancouver Island, he was asked to stay. He was never elected, neither in the United States nor in Canada.
 

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
16 documented challengers
⊖ William J. Bowser  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Dugald Donaghy  m 
⊖ James F. Garden  m 
⊖ Alexander H.B. MacGowan  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ George A. McGuire  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert P. McLennan  m 
⊖ Henry H. Stevens  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Charles E. Tisdall  m 
 		 ⊖ George H. Cowan  m 
⊖ John W.D. Farris  m 
⊖ Alexander Henderson  m 
⊖ Joseph Martin  m 
⊖ Wm. Wallace B. McInnes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Stables  m 
⊖ Robert G. Tatlow  m 
⊖ Henry H. Watson  m 
 
Eligible: 9,747 Votes: 30,173 Participation: 61.91% Candidacies: 17
Provincial
11		 British Columbia
1 February 1907
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28910(F) — 19 Jan 2024 08:09 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
±51
SP
 11/17 617 10.22% -2,377 Winner:
LC
 2,994 49.61% George A. McGuire
Eligible: 9,747 Votes: 2,885 Participation: 29.60% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 British Columbia
3 August 1907
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28916(F) — 14 Oct 2022 19:50 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
±51
SP
 2/2 521 18.06% -1,843 Winner:
LC
 2,364 81.94% William J. Bowser
Eligible: 11,140 Votes: 11,136 Participation: 99.96% Candidacies: 4
Federal
11		 British Columbia
26 October 1908
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 20788(F) — 19 Sep 2022 13:12 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
±52
IND
 4/4 1,194 10.88% -3,427 Winner:
CONS
 4,621 42.11% George H. Cowan
Eligible: 19,220 Votes: 51,316 Participation: 53.40% Candidacies: 15
Provincial
12		 British Columbia
25 November 1909
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 28949(F) — 19 Sep 2022 13:12 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
±53
SP
 11/15 1,883 18.35% -2,943 Winner:
LC
 4,826 47.02% George A. McGuire
Eligible: inc. Votes: 11,754 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
12		 British Columbia
21 September 1911
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 21026(F) — 5 Jul 2023 12:03 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
±55
SP
 3/3 1,056 8.98% -5,846 Winner:
CONS
 6,902 58.72% Henry H. Stevens
Eligible: 27,707 Votes: 19,324 Participation: 69.74% Candidacies: 3
Federal
16		 British Columbia
14 September 1926
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22065(F) — 19 Sep 2022 13:12 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
±70
LAB
 3/3 527 2.73% -9,799 Winner:
LC
 10,326 53.44% Henry H. Stevens

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
E.T. Kingsley		 08 Apr 2024

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  8 Apr 2024 20:54 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.