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♂ Donald Macmaster
aliasDonald Macmaster
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 1 2
Ontario 1 0 1
Total 2 1 3
Birth 3 September 1846 → 177 years + 7 months ago
Lived 75 years + 6 months
First mandate 5 June 1879 → 144 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 32 years + 9 months
Death 3 March 1922 → 102 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 35 years + 10 days after 21 February 1887
Special notes
None
 
Donald Macmaster (1846–1922)
© Photo Elliott & Fry — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Macmaster sat as the Ontario Conservative MPP for Glengarry from 1879 to 1882, resigning to get elected to the House of Commons to represent that same riding until his defeat in 1887. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1905 and was elected to the British House of Commons in 1910 as a Conservative, representing the constituency of Chertsey until his death at the age of 75.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 4 8 2
Ontario 2 9 4 Z
TOTAL 7 5 7

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Patrick Purcell  m 
 		 ⊖ James Rayside  m 
 
Eligible: 3,527 Votes: 2,621 Participation: 74.31% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
4		 Ontario
5 June 1879
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32874(F) — 21 Feb 2022 20:06 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
32
LC
 1/2 1,331 50.78% +41 Loser:
LIB
 1,290 49.22% James Rayside
After his election:
10 Mar 1882 35
LC
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran federally
Service: 2 years 9 months 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,775 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
5		 Ontario
20 June 1882
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 19244(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:27 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
35
CONS
 1/2 1,499 54.02% +223 Loser:
LIB
 1,276 45.98% D.A. McDonald

Service: 4 years 8 months 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
4		 Ontario
18 October 1882
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33048(F) — 21 Feb 2022 19:50 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
36		 Successor:
LIB
 Acclam. James Rayside
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,834 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
6		 Ontario
22 February 1887
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 19450(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:27 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
40
CONS
 2/2 1,814 47.31% -206 Winner:
LIB
 2,020 52.69% Patrick Purcell

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Donald Macmaster		 28 Jan 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Donald Macmaster		 28 Jan 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Sir Donald Macmaster, M.P.		 28 Jan 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Sir Donald Macmaster, député		 28 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Donald Macmaster		 28 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 28 Jan 2024 23:26 (but data presented dynamically)

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