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♂ Gudmundur Fjeldsted [Fjelsted]
aliasGudmundur Fjeldsted
Record
19996 · 14462

Icelandic-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 0 1
Birth 1 November 1872 → 151 years + 6 months ago
Lived 88 years + 2 months
First mandate 29 June 1920 → 103 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 7 months
Death 20 January 1961 → 63 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 38 years + 6 months after 17 July 1922
Special notes
None
 
Gudmundur Fjeldsted [Fjelsted] (1872–1961)
© 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 2 0 17 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Taras Ferley  m 
 
 
Eligible: 4,219 Votes: 2,601 Participation: 61.65% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37155(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
47
FARM
 1/2 1,359 52.25% +117 Loser:
LIB
 1,242 47.75% Taras D. Ferley

Service: 2 years 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 4,614 Votes: 2,983 Participation: 64.65% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37203(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
49		 Successor:
LIB
 1,570 52.63% Michael Rojeski

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Fjeldsted, Gudmunder		 13 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Fjeldsted, Gudmunder		 13 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Gudmundur Fjeldsted [Fjelsted] (1872-1961)		 13 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Gudmundur Fjelsted		 13 May 2024

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