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♂ Patrick Morgan Mahoney
aliasPat Mahoney
Record
38743 · 5

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 1 2
Birth 20 January 1929 → 95 years + 3 months ago
Lived 83 years + 4 months
First mandate 25 June 1968 → 55 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 5 months
Death 8 June 2012 → 11 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 7 months after 29 October 1972
Special notes
None
 
Patrick Morgan Mahoney (1929–2012)
© Photo 1968 House of Commons (Canada) — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Mahoney was the last federal Liberal elected from a Calgary riding until Kent Hehr and Darshan Kang were elected 47 years later (in 2015).
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 4 4 4

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 28
LIB
 1 Minister 43 28 Jan 1972 — 26 Nov 1972 0 9 29
 1. Without portfolio

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ H. Raymond Ballard  m 
 		 ⊖ Peter C. Bawden  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 42,986 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
28		 Alberta
25 June 1968
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 9869(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
39
LIB
 1/3 20,472 47.62% +756 Loser:
PC
 19,716 45.87% H. Raymond Ballard

Service: 4 years 4 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 78,236 Votes: 60,091 Participation: 76.81% Candidacies: 5
Federal
29		 Alberta
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10132(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
43
LIB
 2/5 18,437 30.68% -16,488 Winner:
PC
 34,925 58.12% Peter C. Bawden

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Patrick Morgan Mahoney, P.C., Q.C., M.P.		 10 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Patrick Morgan Mahoney, C.P., c.r., député		 10 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Pat Mahoney		 10 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 10 Apr 2024 21:06 (but data presented dynamically)

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