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♂ Horace B. Carver
aliasHorace B. Carver
Record
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Protestant   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 2 5
Birth 29 December 1948
Age 75 years + 4 months
First mandate 24 April 1978 → 46 years + 9 days ago
↳ at age 29 years + 3 months
 
Mandate ended 38 years + 13 days ago (20 April 1986)
Special notes
None
 

Horace B. Carver (1948– ?)
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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 7 11 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Betty Jean Brown  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Cecil A. Miller  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ J. Paul Connolly  m 
 
Eligible: 5,325 Votes: 4,658 Participation: 87.47% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
53		 Prince Edward Island
29 April 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25908(F) — 25 Dec 2023 23:35 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
25
PC
 2/3 1,905 42.37% -190 Winner:
LIB
 2,095 46.60% Cecil A. Miller
Eligible: 6,432 Votes: 5,587 Participation: 86.86% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
54		 Prince Edward Island
24 April 1978
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4771(F) — 25 Dec 2023 23:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
29
PC
 1/2 3,177 57.91% +868 Loser:
LIB
 2,309 42.09% Cecil A. Miller

Service: 11 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,889 Votes: 6,002 Participation: 87.12% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
55		 Prince Edward Island
23 April 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 4739(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
30
PC
 1/2 3,392 58.33% +969 Loser:
LIB
 2,423 41.67% J. Paul Connolly

Service: 3 years 5 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,185 Votes: 6,627 Participation: 80.97% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
56		 Prince Edward Island
27 September 1982
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 2521(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
33
PC
 1/2 3,436 53.70% +474 Loser:
LIB
 2,962 46.30% Betty Jean Brown

Service: 3 years 6 months 24 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,326 Votes: 7,423 Participation: 89.15% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
57		 Prince Edward Island
21 April 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 2489(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
37
PC
 2/3 3,394 46.11% -184 Winner:
LIB
 3,578 48.61% Betty Jean Brown

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Carver, Q.C., Horace Boswell		 29 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Horace Boswell Carver		 29 Dec 2023

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