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♀ Idola Saint-Jean
aliasIdola Saint-Jean
Record
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☆   Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Birth 19 May 1880 → 143 years + 11 months ago
Lived 64 years + 10 months
Only run 28 July 1930 → 93 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 2 months
Death 6 April 1945 → 79 years ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Idola Saint-Jean (1880–1945)
© Photo c.1925 Garcia Studio — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
When Saint-Jean, a dedicated suffragist, ran in the federal election in 1930, she was the first woman from Québec to do so. Women would only achieve the right to vote provincially a decade later.
 

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path point 1  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Joseph-Arthur Denis  m 
 
 
Eligible: 69,249 Votes: 44,760 Participation: 64.64% Candidacies: 3
Federal
17		 Québec
28 July 1930
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 22517(F) — 30 Nov 2022 21:27 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
50
IND
 3/3 1,732 3.87% -26,914 Winner:
LIB
 28,646 64.00% Joseph-Arthur Denis

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Idola Saint-Jean		 30 Jan 2024
FR Wikipédia
Idola Saint-Jean		 30 Jan 2024

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