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♂ Elkanah Young
aliasElkanah Young
Record
66614 · 4838

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth c. 1800 → 224 years ago
Lived ± 76 years
First mandate 18 September 1867 → 156 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age ± 67 years
Death 13 April 1876 → 148 years ago
Exit → Death 4 years + 10 months after 15 May 1871
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
Nova Scotia 3 7 26 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ William D. Lawrence  m 
 		 ⊖ William McDougall  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,851 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Nova Scotia
18 September 1867
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  ANTI  Majority
ID: 17485(F) — 14 Sep 2021 21:54 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
±67
ANTI
 2/4 1,497 61.71% +576 Loser:
CONF
 921 37.96% ? Parker

Service: 3 years 7 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,274 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
25		 Nova Scotia
16 May 1871
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17506(F) — 6 Feb 2022 12:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±71		 Successor:
LC
 1,396 52.94% William McDougall

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Young, Elkanah (p. 238)		 29 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
Elkanah Young		 29 Jul 2023

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