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♂ Patrick Blake
aliasPatrick Blake
Record
5280 · 6374

Irish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Prince Edward Island 3 2 5
Total 3 3 6
Birth 6 March 1846 → 178 years + 1 month ago
Lived 63 years + 8 months
First mandate 8 May 1882 → 141 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 2 months
Death 20 November 1909 → 114 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 9 months after 1 February 1891
Special notes
None
 

Patrick Blake (1846–1909)
No photo available
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 8 8 23 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. PE 31
CONS
 1 Speaker 43–44 30 Jan 1890 — 01 Feb 1891 1 0 2

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
7 documented challengers
⊖ Louis H. Davies  m 
⊖ Neil McLeod  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Lemuel E. Prowse  m 
⊖ William Welsh  m 
 		 ⊖ Donald Ferguson  m 
⊖ Frederick Peters  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Alexander B. Warburton  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,060 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Prince Edward Island
8 May 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26502(F) — 6 Jan 2023 13:22 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
LC
 1/4 1,066 52.51% +56 Loser:
LIB
 1,010 49.75% Thomas Morris

Service: 4 years 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,976 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1886
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26517(F) — 6 Jan 2023 13:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
LC
 1/4 1,083 54.48% +152 Loser:
LIB
 931 46.83% Frederick Peters

Service: 3 years 7 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,379 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Prince Edward Island
30 January 1890
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26532(F) — 12 Jul 2023 16:50 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LC
 2/4 1,189 54.29% +180 Loser:
LIB
 1,009 46.07% William A. Weeks
After his election:
1 Feb 1891 44
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Unsuccessfully ran federally
Service: 1 year 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 15,050 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Federal
7		 Prince Edward Island
5 March 1891
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 19874(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
44
CONS
 3/4 3,669 48.76% -185 Winner:
ILIB
 3,854 51.22% William Welsh
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
31		 Prince Edward Island
9 April 1891
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26627(F) — 12 Jul 2023 15:19 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
45		 Successor:
ICON
 Acclam. John T. Jenkins
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,647 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
32		 Prince Edward Island
13 December 1893
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26557(F) — 11 Nov 2022 13:07 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
47
CONS
 2/2 679 41.23% -289 Winner:
LIB
 968 58.77% Frederick Peters
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,068 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
33		 Prince Edward Island
21 July 1897
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26591(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
51
CONS
 2/2 805 38.93% -458 Winner:
LIB
 1,263 61.07% Lemuel E. Prowse

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Blake, Patrick		 25 Dec 2023
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Blake, Patrick		 25 Dec 2023
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Blake, Patrick		 25 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Patrick Blake		 25 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Patrick Blake (Canadian politician)		 25 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 25 Dec 2023 17:45 (but data presented dynamically)

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