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♂ Stewart Campbell
aliasStewart Campbell
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 2 1 3
Nova Scotia 0 1 1
Total 2 2 4
Birth 5 May 1812 → 211 years + 11 months ago
Lived 72 years + 9 months
First mandate 7 August 1867 → 156 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 55 years + 3 months
Death 20 February 1885 → 139 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 11 years + 30 days after 21 January 1874
Special notes
None
 
Stewart Campbell (1812–1885)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Elected as a Nova Scotia Anti-Confederation MP, Campbell crossed the floor of Parliament to join the Liberal-Conservative Party when his party began to collapse in September 1868, making him perhaps the first MP to cross in the history of the modern Canadian Parliament. Historians believe it was probably his support for the Conservative government that provoked an Antigonish crowd to pelt him with eggs at a social occasion that month.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 6 5 14

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Charles M. Francheville  m 
⊖ John A. Kirk  m 
⊖ William H. Wylde  m 
 		 ⊖ Joseph W. Hadley  m 
⊖ Alexander N. MacDonald  m 
 
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Federal
1		 Nova Scotia
7 August 1867
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 17604(F) — 19 Jan 2022 07:40 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
55
ANTI
 1/1 By acclamation
After his election:
1 Sep 1868 56
ANTI
 →
LC
 Changed allegiance (joined government)
Service: 4 years 11 months 12 days (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,274 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Nova Scotia
18 September 1867
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  ANTI  Majority
ID: 17483(F) — 23 Dec 2023 10:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
55		 Successor:
ANTI
 674 59.28% John A. Kirk
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Federal
2		 Nova Scotia
20 July 1872
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Minority
 LIB  5 Nov 1873
ID: 18500(F) — 25 Jun 2023 13:40 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
LC
 1/1 By acclamation
After his election:
5 Nov 1873 61
LC
 →
LIB
 Change of government (became part of opposition)
Service: 1 year 6 months 1 day (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,833 Votes: 1,303 Participation: 71.09% Candidacies: 2
Federal
3		 Nova Scotia
22 January 1874
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18732(F) — 28 Nov 2021 09:30 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
61
LC
 2/2 544 41.75% -215 Winner:
LIB
 759 58.25% John A. Kirk
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,413 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
26		 Nova Scotia
17 December 1874
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17786(F) — 6 Feb 2022 14:02 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
62
LC
 3/5 440 36.45% -188 Winner:
LIB
 628 52.03% William H. Wylde

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Campbell, Stewart		 12 Feb 2024
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Campbell, Stewart		 12 Feb 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Stewart Campbell, Q.C., M.P.		 12 Feb 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Stewart Campbell, c.r., député		 12 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Stewart Campbell (politician)		 12 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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