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♂ William Buchanan
aliasWilliam Buchanan
Record
8022 · 9476

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth c. 1827 → 197 years ago
Lived ± 78 years
First mandate 20 June 1882 → 141 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age ± 55 years
Death c. 1905 → 119 years ago
Exit → Death ± 18 years + 6 months after 14 June 1886
Special notes
Date of birth and death is an educated guess.
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 3 11 24 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Colin Chisholm  m 
⊖ Alonzo J. White  m 
 		 ⊖ Ebenezer T. Moseley  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,549 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Nova Scotia
20 June 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17828(F) — 27 Sep 2023 20:20 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±55
LIB
 2/4 1,579 56.90% +387 Loser:
LC
 1,192 42.95% Ebenezer T. Moseley

Service: 3 years 11 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,193 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Nova Scotia
15 June 1886
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17853(F) — 2 Aug 2023 14:01 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±59		 Successor:
LC
 1,562 60.15% William MacKay

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
William Buchanan		 27 Sep 2023
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Buchanan, William (p. 23)		 27 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Sep 2023 20:24 (but data presented dynamically)

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