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♂ Charles Edwin Greenlay
aliasCharles Greenlay
Record
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United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 1 6
Birth 8 June 1899 → 124 years + 11 months ago
Lived 84 years + 11 months
First mandate 18 November 1943 → 80 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 5 months
Death 27 May 1984 → 39 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 25 years + 14 days after 13 May 1959
Special notes
None
 
Charles Edwin Greenlay (1899–1984)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
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 15 5 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Jon A. Christianson  m 
⊖ William C. Warren  m 
 		 ⊖ Bernard Rempel  m 
 
Eligible: 3,728 Votes: 2,819 Participation: 75.62% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
18 November 1943
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37482(F) — 14 Sep 2022 20:28 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
CONS
 1/3 1,762 62.50% +1,141 Loser:
CCF
 621 22.03% Horace A. Ireland

Service: 1 year 10 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 4,069 Votes: 2,755 Participation: 67.71% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37514(F) — 17 Sep 2022 13:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
PC
 1/3 1,878 68.82% +1,132 Loser:
CCF
 746 27.34% Margaret Mann

Service: 4 years 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,458 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37562(F) — 17 Sep 2022 13:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
PC
 1/1 By acclamation
After his election:
19 Aug 1950 51
PC
 →
LIBP
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 3 years 6 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,255 Votes: 3,887 Participation: 73.97% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
8 June 1953
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37610(F) — 24 Sep 2023 09:32 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
LIBP
 1/3 1,653 43.89% +324 Loser:
PC
 1,329 35.29% William C. Warren

Service: 5 years 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,337 Votes: 4,074 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37665(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
LIBP
 1/3 1,978 48.88% +450 Loser:
PC
 1,528 37.76% Robert E. Burke

Service: 10 months 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,319 Votes: 4,564 Participation: 72.23% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37722(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
59
LIBP
 2/3 1,827 40.22% -473 Winner:
PC
 2,300 50.63% Jon A. Christianson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Greenlay, Charles Edwin		 14 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Greenlay, Charles Edwin		 14 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Charles Edwin Greenlay (1899-1984)		 14 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Charles Greenlay		 14 Apr 2024

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