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♂ Isaac Mercer
aliasIsaac Mercer
Record
42949 · 5825

Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Newfoundland and Labrador 3 1 4
Birth 3 September 1912 → 111 years + 8 months ago
Lived 89 years + 11 months
First mandate 26 November 1951 → 72 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 2 months
Death 5 August 2002 → 21 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 8 months after 18 November 1962
Special notes
Wikipedia indicates that Mercer left politics in 1961 but no other source corroborates this statement.
 

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
Newfoundland and Labrador 10 11 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊖ C. Maxwell Button  m 
 
 
Eligible: 5,915 Votes: 4,232 Participation: 71.55% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
29		 Newfoundland and Labrador
27 May 1949
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26050(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
36
PC
 2/2 1,152 27.29% -1,918 Winner:
LIB
 3,070 72.71% C. Maxwell Button
Eligible: 4,603 Votes: 2,943 Participation: 63.94% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Newfoundland and Labrador
26 November 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26069(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
LIB
 1/3 1,935 66.06% +998 Loser:
PC
 937 31.99% Richard Parsons

Service: 4 years 10 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,459 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
31		 Newfoundland and Labrador
2 October 1956
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26084(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 2 years 10 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,459 Votes: 3,301 Participation: 60.47% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Newfoundland and Labrador
20 August 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26121(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
LIB
 1/3 2,551 77.73% +2,129 Loser:
PC
 422 12.86% Whitfield Bannister

Service: 3 years 2 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,363 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
33		 Newfoundland and Labrador
19 November 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26156(F) — 23 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
LIB
 Acclam. Edward S. Spencer

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Isaac "Ike" Mercer		 02 Sep 2023
EN Wikipedia
Isaac Mercer		 02 Sep 2023

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