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♂ Sigtryggur Jónasson
aliasSigtryggur Jónasson
Record
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Icelandic-Canadian    Lutheran   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 1 3
Birth 8 February 1852 → 172 years + 3 months ago
Lived 90 years + 9 months
First mandate 15 January 1896 → 128 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 11 months
Death 28 November 1942 → 81 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 32 years + 4 months after 10 July 1910
Special notes
None
 
Sigtryggur Jónasson (1852–1942)
© 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 7 2 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Baldwin Baldwinson  m  (3 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: 1,306 Votes: 815 Participation: 62.40% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Manitoba
15 January 1896
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36636(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
LIB
 1/2 447 54.85% +79 Loser:
CONS
 368 45.15% Baldwin L. Baldwinson

Service: 3 years 10 months 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 976 Votes: 654 Participation: 67.01% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36723(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
47
LIB
 2/2 323 49.39% -8 Winner:
CONS
 331 50.61% Baldwin L. Baldwinson
Eligible: 1,471 Votes: 1,086 Participation: 73.83% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36904(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
55
LIB
 1/2 621 57.18% +156 Loser:
CONS
 465 42.82% Baldwin L. Baldwinson

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 2,693 Votes: 1,637 Participation: 60.79% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36953(F) — 19 Mar 2022 23:12 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
CONS
 900 54.98% Baldwin L. Baldwinson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Jonason, Sigtryggur		 11 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Jonason, Sigtryggur		 11 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Sigtryggur Jónasson (1852-1942)		 11 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Sigtryggur Jonasson		 11 May 2024

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