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♂ William Blain Findlater
aliasWilliam Findlater
Record
19777 · 14375

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 0 2
Birth 20 October 1871 → 152 years + 6 months ago
Lived 90 years + 5 months
First mandate 6 August 1915 → 108 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 9 months
Death 26 March 1962 → 62 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 39 years + 8 months after 17 July 1922
Special notes
None
 
William Blain Findlater (1871–1962)
© 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 6 11 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Sam Hughes  m 
 
 
Eligible: 2,968 Votes: 2,175 Participation: 73.28% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37051(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
LIB
 1/2 1,383 63.59% +591 Loser:
CONS
 792 36.41% Samuel Hughes

Service: 4 years 10 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,374 Votes: 1,450 Participation: 61.08% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37154(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
LIB
 1/2 735 50.69% +20 Loser:
IND
 715 49.31% Robert J. Dalgleish

Service: 2 years 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,569 Votes: 1,850 Participation: 72.01% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37202(F) — 22 Oct 2023 19:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
PROG
 1,034 55.89% Arthur R. Berry

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Findlater, William Blain		 13 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Findlater, William Blain		 13 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William Blain Findlater (1871-1962)		 13 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
William Findlater (Manitoba politician)		 13 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 13 May 2024 00:43 (but data presented dynamically)

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