Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → George Forbes

♂ George Forbes
aliasGeorge Forbes
Record
20330 · 4750

Baptist   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 6 0 6
Birth 25 November 1840 → 183 years + 5 months ago
Lived 85 years
First mandate 30 May 1886 → 137 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 6 months
Death 17 December 1925 → 98 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 6 years + 4 months after 23 July 1919
Special notes
None
 
George Forbes (1840–1925) 200x222
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 22 4 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 8  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Hector C. MacDonald  m 
⊖ Donald C. Martin  m 
 		 ⊖ Alexander Martin  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Angus A. McLean  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,049 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1886
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26516(F) — 13 Feb 2022 16:43 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
LIB
 1/4 827 54.23% +81 Loser:
CONS
 746 48.92% Alexander Martin

Service: 3 years 7 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,139 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Prince Edward Island
30 January 1890
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
 LIB  9 Apr 1891
ID: 26531(F) — 12 Jul 2023 16:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
LIB
 2/4 800 50.96% +29 Loser:
CONS
 771 49.11% Angus A. McLean
After his election:
9 Apr 1891 50
CONS
 →
LIB
 Change of government (became part of government)
Service: 3 years 10 months 12 days (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,119 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
32		 Prince Edward Island
13 December 1893
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26560(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
LIB
 1/2 583 52.10% +47 Loser:
CONS
 536 47.90% Alexander Martin

Service: 3 years 7 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,081 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
33		 Prince Edward Island
21 July 1897
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26590(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
LIB
 1/2 581 53.75% +81 Loser:
CONS
 500 46.25% Henry Wood

Service: 3 years 4 months 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,058 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
34		 Prince Edward Island
12 December 1900
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17412(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
LIB
 1/2 533 50.38% +8 Loser:
CONS
 525 49.62% Henry Wood

Service: 3 years 11 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,053 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
35		 Prince Edward Island
7 December 1904
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17450(F) — 13 Feb 2022 17:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
64		 Successor:
LIB
 532 50.52% Francis L. Haszard
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,015 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
38		 Prince Edward Island
15 September 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 25401(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
74
LIB
 1/2 535 52.71% +55 Loser:
CONS
 480 47.29% A.D. Ross

Service: 3 years 10 months 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,183 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
39		 Prince Edward Island
24 July 1919
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25435(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
78		 Successor:
LIB
 635 53.68% Frederick J. Nash

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Forbes, George		 26 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
George Forbes		 26 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
George Forbes (Canadian politician)		 26 Dec 2023

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Dec 2023 21:44 (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.