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♂ Charles Hanford Blakeny
aliasCharles Blakeny
Record
5288 · 10716

  
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 1 4
Birth 2 December 1888 → 135 years + 7 months ago
Lived 72 years + 5 months
First mandate 27 June 1935 → 89 years + 5 days ago
↳ at age 46 years + 6 months
Death 23 May 1961 → 63 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 10 months after 27 June 1948
Special notes
None
 
Charles Hanford Blakeny (1888–1961)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, New Brunswick — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Moncton, New Brunswick (1929; 1931–1934)
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 12 11 29 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 38
LIB
 1 Speaker 50 16 Feb 1939 — 19 Nov 1939 0 9 3

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph W. Bourgeois  m 
⊖ Babbitt Parlee  m 
 		 ⊖ Claudius I. Léger  m 
⊖ Albert Reilly  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 9,737 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
38		 New Brunswick
27 June 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32377(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
LIB
 1/2 5,241 53.83% +745 Loser:
CONS
 4,496 46.17% E. Albert Reilly

Service: 4 years 4 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,950 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32394(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
LIB
 1/2 4,572 57.51% +1,194 Loser:
CONS
 3,378 42.49% Ambrose Wheeler

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 11,238 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32414(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
LIB
 1/3 4,420 39.33% +434 Loser:
PC
 3,986 35.47% Angus G. Gunn

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 23,691 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32434(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
59		 Successor:
LIB
 6,190 52.25% Claudius I. Léger
Eligible: inc. Votes: 27,200 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32452(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
63
LIB
 4/6 6,079 44.70% -758 Winner:
PC
 6,837 50.27% Joseph W. Bourgeois

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Charles H. Blakeny		 14 Jun 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Charles H. Blakeny		 14 Jun 2024
EN Wikipedia
Charles Blakeney (Canadian politician)		 14 Jun 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 14 Jun 2024 20:02 (but data presented dynamically)

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