Jabez Balfour as Liberal candidate in Croydon at the general election but lost to the Conservatives. He also stood unsuccessfully for the Liberals at Walworth in 1886. In 1880 he was appointed chairman of the Northampton Street Tramways. Together with City financiers Leopold Salomons and Sir John Pender, Balfour founded the investment underwriting firm the "Trustees, Executors and Securities Insurance Corporation, Limited" in December 1887. In 1892, he was at the centre of a scandal over the failure of a series of companies which he set up and controlled, starting with the London and General Bank and culminating in the Liberator Building
Liberal Party of Canada candidates in the 1993 Canadian federal election in 1990. He was 67 years old when he campaigned for the Liberal Party in 1993, and described himself as being on the right-wing of the party. He received 11,087 votes (17.36%), finishing third against Reform Party leader Preston Manning. He was later appointed as Alberta's honorary counsel for Bangladesh, and was extensively involved in Asian investment. He also served as president and CEO of Comprehensive Medical Intelligence Inc., which he made public on the Stock Exchange in 1998. He has also remained active in the Liberal Party, and attended a campaign dinner for federal leadership candidate Paul Martin in