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♂ Malcolm McFadyen
aliasMalcolm McFadyen
Record
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☆   Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 25%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Prince Edward Island 1 2 3
Total 1 3 4
Birth 9 June 1838 → 185 years + 10 months ago
Lived ± 44 years
First mandate 8 May 1882 → 141 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 10 months
Death c. 15 April 1883 → 141 years ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

Malcolm McFadyen (1838–c.1883)
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Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Prince Edward Island Liberal, McFadyen failed three times to get elected — federally in 1878 and provincially in 1876 and 1879 — before winning one of the two seats for Kings 4th in the legislature in the 1882 general election. According to Blair Weeks in Minding the House, "Malcolm McFadyen died ca. 1883," which would suggest that he died in office about a year after finally being elected. However, Weeks does not explcitly say that and no by-election seems to have been called to replace McFadyen even though the next general election on the Island was only held three years later. That said, although by-elections were far more frequent in the 19th century than they are today, calling them was entirely at the discretion of the government, so given that the 29th Legislature was Conservative and McFadyen was Liberal, it is possible that the seat was left vacant.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 0 11 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Augustine C. Macdonald  m 
⊖ Ephraim B. Muttart  m 
⊖ Samuel Prowse  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Peter A. McIntyre  m 
⊖ William A. Poole  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James E. Robertson  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,770 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Prince Edward Island
17 August 1876
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  FREE  Majority
ID: 26461(F) — 12 Jul 2023 12:07 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
38
FREE
 3/3 538 60.79% -57 Winner:
FREE
 595 67.23% James E. Robertson
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,091 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Federal
4		 Prince Edward Island
17 September 1878
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 19116(F) — 21 Jan 2022 20:06 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
40
LIB
 4/4 1,251 35.28% -826 Winner:
CONS
 2,077 58.57% Ephraim B. Muttart
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,682 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Prince Edward Island
9 April 1879
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26476(F) — 6 Jan 2023 15:50 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
40
LIB
 3/4 401 47.68% -19 Winner:
CONS
 420 49.94% William A. Poole
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,202 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Prince Edward Island
8 May 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26491(F) — 6 Jan 2023 15:49 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
LIB
 1/4 625 56.77% +95 Loser:
LC
 530 48.14% Samuel Prowse
After his election:
15 Apr 1883 44
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 11 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,463 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1886
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26506(F) — 12 Nov 2022 23:58 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
44		 Successor:
CONS
 683 55.44% Angus MacLeod

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
McFadyen, Malcolm		 18 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Malcolm McFadyen		 18 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Malcolm McFadyen		 18 Dec 2023

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