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♂ George Steel
aliasGeorge Steel
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 1 6
Birth 15 April 1858 → 166 years + 1 month ago
Lived 82 years + 4 months
First mandate 7 December 1899 → 124 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 41 years + 7 months
Death 20 August 1940 → 83 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 25 years + 15 days after 5 August 1915
Special notes
None
 
George Steel (1858–1940)
© 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 15 7 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Alfred Doig  m 
 		 ⊖ Andrew Watson Myles  m 
 
Eligible: 1,871 Votes: 1,442 Participation: 77.07% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36696(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
41
CONS
 1/3 671 46.53% +98 Loser:
LIB
 573 39.74% Alfred Doig

Service: 3 years 7 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,628 Votes: 1,611 Participation: 98.96% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36852(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
CONS
 1/2 855 53.07% +99 Loser:
LIB
 756 46.93% William Little

Service: 3 years 7 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,808 Votes: 1,455 Participation: 80.48% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36898(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
CONS
 1/2 783 53.81% +111 Loser:
LIB
 672 46.19% Adam Forbes

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,788 Votes: 1,574 Participation: 88.03% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36947(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
CONS
 1/2 875 55.59% +176 Loser:
LIB
 699 44.41% F.H. Mitchell

Service: 3 years 11 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,846 Votes: 1,688 Participation: 91.44% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36995(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
CONS
 1/2 852 50.47% +16 Loser:
LIB
 836 49.53% James Christie

Service: 1 year 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,889 Votes: 1,640 Participation: 86.82% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37045(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
57
CONS
 2/2 789 48.11% -62 Winner:
LIB
 851 51.89% Andrew W. Myles

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Steel, George		 11 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Steel, George		 11 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
George Steel (1858-1940)		 11 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
George Steel (Manitoba politician)		 11 May 2024

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