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♂ David F. Jelly
aliasDavid F. Jelly
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
North-Western Territories 2 1 3
Birth 28 September 1847 → 176 years + 7 months ago
Lived 64 years + 2 months
First mandate 30 June 1888 → 135 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 40 years + 9 months
Death 27 December 1911 → 112 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 17 years + 1 month after 30 October 1894
Special notes
None
 
David F. Jelly (1847–1911)
© Photo 1891 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Quite some time after being a North-West Territories MLA, Jelly emigrated to Australia. By September 1911, he was admitted to a destitute asylum in Brisbane. A few months later, he jumped from a jetty and drowned.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
North-Western Territories 6 3 29 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ George W. Brown  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 362 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
1		 North-Western Territories
30 June 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30481(F) — 21 Jan 2023 12:01 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
40
IND
 1/2 227 62.71% +92 Loser:
IND
 135 37.29% George W. Brown

Service: 3 years 4 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 378 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
2		 North-Western Territories
7 November 1891
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30499(F) — 21 Jan 2023 11:17 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
IND
 1/2 229 60.58% +80 Loser:
IND
 149 39.42% William C. Hamilton

Service: 2 years 11 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 709 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
3		 North-Western Territories
31 October 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Minority
ID: 30530(F) — 20 Jan 2023 22:03 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
47
IND
 2/2 255 35.97% -199 Winner:
IND
 454 64.03% George W. Brown

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
David Finlay Jelly		 06 Mar 2024
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905
(pp. 7-10, 17, 30, 32)		 06 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
David Jelly		 06 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  6 Mar 2024 20:56 (but data presented dynamically)

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