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♂ William Sutherland
aliasWilliam Sutherland
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
North-Western Territories 3 0 3
Birth 3 September 1854 → 169 years + 8 months ago
Lived 75 years + 9 months
First mandate 30 June 1888 → 135 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 9 months
Death 13 June 1930 → 93 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 33 years + 7 months after 1 November 1896
Special notes
None
 
William Sutherland (1854–1930) 200x258
© Photo 1896 — Public domain
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
North-Western Territories 8 4 0 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊖ William R. Motherwell  m 
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 373 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
1		 North-Western Territories
30 June 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30480(F) — 21 Jan 2023 12:00 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
IND
 1/2 268 71.85% +163 Loser:
IND
 105 28.15% William A. Clark

Service: 3 years 4 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 341 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
2		 North-Western Territories
7 November 1891
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30498(F) — 21 Jan 2023 11:17 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
IND
 1/2 173 50.73% +5 Loser:
IND
 168 49.27% Archibald B. Stewart

Service: 2 years 11 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 566 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Territorial
3		 North-Western Territories
31 October 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Minority
ID: 30529(F) — 20 Jan 2023 21:11 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
IND
 1/3 312 55.12% +129 Loser:
IND
 183 32.33% George F. Guernsey
After his election:
1 Nov 1896 42
IND
 →
Vac.
 Left territorial politics
Service: 2 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 539 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
3		 North-Western Territories
7 December 1896
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30652(F) — 17 Sep 2023 16:03 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
42		 Successor:
IND
 382 70.87% Donald H. McDonald

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905
(pp. 8-11, 20, 29, 31)		 29 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
William Sutherland (Northwest Territories politician)		 29 Dec 2023

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