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♂ Donovan Swailes
aliasDon Swailes
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 4 2 6
Birth 12 August 1892 → 131 years + 9 months ago
Lived 92 years + 3 months
First mandate 15 October 1945 → 78 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 2 months
Death 10 December 1984 → 39 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 25 years + 6 months after 13 May 1959
Special notes
None
 
Donovan Swailes (1892–1984)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Robert B. Swailes (1896–1968) Brother  
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Winnipeg (1960–1969)
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
Manitoba 13 6 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
21 documented challengers
⊖ Paul Bardal  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ Gordon Fines  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ George W. Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Bill Kardash  m 
⊖ Morley S. Lougheed  m 
⊖ Nan Murphy  f 
⊖ William Scraba  m 
⊖ Lewis Stubbs  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Lloyd Stinson  m 
⊖ Joseph Zuken  m 
 		 ⊖ George R.A. Brown  m 
⊖ Seymour Farmer  m 
⊖ Morris A. Gray  m 
⊖ Steve Juba  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Frank Lamont  m 
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m 
⊖ Hank Scott  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Jack St. John  m 
⊖ Solly Thorvaldson  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
CCF
 8/20 2,662 3.35% -350 Loser:
PC
 3,012 3.79% Mark J. Long

Service: 4 years 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 50,339 Votes: 20,675 Participation: 41.07% Candidacies: 9
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Single trans. vote (4)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37576(F) — 17 Sep 2022 18:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
CCF
 2/9 5,025 24.57% +2,687 Loser:
PC
 2,338 11.43% Henry B. (Hank) Scott

Service: 3 years 6 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 47,122 Votes: 20,979 Participation: 44.52% Candidacies: 14
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
8 June 1953
General
Single trans. vote (4)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37626(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
CCF
 1/14 3,910 19.01% +2,169 Loser:
IND
 1,741 8.46% Lewis St. George Stubbs

Service: 5 years 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,720 Votes: 5,919 Participation: 50.50% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37635(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
65
CCF
 1/3 2,409 41.17% +131 Loser:
PC
 2,278 38.93% George W. Johnson

Service: 10 months 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,083 Votes: 7,859 Participation: 60.07% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37692(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
66
CCF
 2/4 2,940 37.92% -217 Winner:
PC
 3,157 40.71% George W. Johnson
Eligible: 11,282 Votes: 5,589 Participation: 49.54% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37808(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
70
NDP
 3/3 1,016 18.54% -1,763 Winner:
PC
 2,779 50.72% James Cowan

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Swailes, Donovan		 27 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Swailes, Donovan		 27 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Donovan “Don” Swailes (1892-1984)		 27 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Donovan Swailes		 27 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Apr 2024 16:24 (but data presented dynamically)

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