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♂ Huntly Douglas Brodie Ketchen
aliasHuntly Ketchen
Record
31594 · 14706

Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 0 3
Birth 22 May 1872 → 152 years ago
Lived 87 years + 2 months
First mandate 16 June 1932 → 91 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 60 years
Death 28 July 1959 → 64 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 13 years + 9 months after 14 October 1945
Special notes
None
 
Huntley Douglas Brodie Ketchen (1872–1959)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — 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
Manitoba 13 3 26 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 21
CONS
 1 Opposition Leader 69–70 09 Dec 1941 — 01 Feb 1943 1 1 23

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
46 documented challengers
⊖ Victor Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m 
⊖ James Barry  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ Harrison Dysart  m 
⊖ Seymour Farmer  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Morris A. Gray  m 
⊖ Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Bill Kardash  m 
⊖ Stanley Knowles  m 
⊖ James Litterick  m 
⊖ William Major  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Leslie Morris  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m 
⊖ Laurier Régnier  m 
⊖ Cecil Rice-Jones  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ Lewis Stubbs  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Solly Thorvaldson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick Warriner  m 
 		 ⊖ Constantine Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ Paul Bardal  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ John Downes  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m 
⊖ Walter Fulton  m 
⊖ John Haig  m 
⊖ Madeline E. Hryniewiecki  f 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Clarence Keith  m 
⊖ Stephen Krawchyk  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ Ralph Maybank  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m 
⊖ Asta A. Oddson  f 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John Reid  m 
⊖ Frank Russell  m 
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m 
⊖ Wesley Swail  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William Tobias  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ralph Webb  m 
 
Eligible: 119,754 Votes: 76,991 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37381(F) — 15 May 2024 14:16 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
60
CONS
 6/29 3,530 4.58% +75 Loser:
COMM
 3,455 4.49% Leslie T. Morris

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 133,666 Votes: 80,830 Participation: 60.47% Candidacies: 21
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37431(F) — 15 May 2024 14:16 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
64
CONS
 6/21 3,775 4.76% -74 Loser:
LIBP
 3,849 4.85% Mary Dyma
After his election:
17 Nov 1940 68
CONS
 →
CONS
 Changed allegiance ()
1 Feb 1941 68
CONS
 →
ANTI
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 8 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 137,437 Votes: 59,715 Participation: 43.45% Candidacies: 27
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37477(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
68
ANTI
 4/27 4,123 7.03% +1,953 Loser:
CCF
 2,170 3.70% John Queen

Service: 4 years 5 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 155,824 Votes: 79,433 Participation: 50.98% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37528(F) — 4 Feb 2023 13:19 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
73		 Successor:
LIBP
 3,616 4.55% William Scraba

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Ketchen, Huntly Douglas Brodie		 15 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Ketchen, Huntly Douglas Brodie		 15 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Huntley Douglas Brodie Ketchen (1872-1959)		 15 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Huntly Ketchen		 15 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 15 May 2024 21:38 (but data presented dynamically)

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