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♂ Isaac Bertie Griffiths
aliasIsaac Griffiths
Record
24694 · 14487

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 0 5
Birth 29 March 1882 → 142 years + 1 month ago
Lived 88 years + 3 months
First mandate 18 July 1922 → 101 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 40 years + 3 months
Death 10 July 1970 → 53 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 29 years + 8 months after 4 November 1940
Special notes
None
 
Isaac Bertie Griffiths (1882–1970)
© 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 18 2 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Ernest Whelpley  m 
 		 ⊖ William Wilson  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 4,018 Votes: 2,701 Participation: 67.22% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37223(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
40
PROG
 1/3 1,177 43.58% +394 Loser:
LIB
 783 28.99% William W.W. Wilson

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,042 Votes: 3,320 Participation: 65.85% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37321(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
PROG
 1/4 1,227 36.96% +291 Loser:
CONS
 936 28.19% Robert Peden

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,667 Votes: 3,760 Participation: 66.35% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37371(F) — 20 Mar 2022 19:10 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
LIBP
 1/2 2,523 67.10% +1,286 Loser:
CONS
 1,237 32.90% Ernest H. Whelpley
After his election:
28 May 1935 53
LIBP
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 2 years 11 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,667 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
24 June 1935
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37384(F) — 14 Oct 2022 21:21 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
LIBP
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 1 year 1 month 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,524 Votes: 3,482 Participation: 53.37% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37421(F) — 20 Mar 2022 19:20 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
LIBP
 1/2 1,827 53.14% +216 Loser:
IND
 1,611 46.86% H.J. Peddie
After his election:
4 Nov 1940 58
LIBP
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 4 years 3 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,369 Votes: 3,820 Participation: 59.98% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37467(F) — 17 Sep 2022 17:48 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
59		 Successor:
LIBP
 1,909 50.18% William W.W. Wilson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Griffiths, Isaac Bertie		 14 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Griffiths, Isaac Bertie		 14 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Isaac Bertie Griffiths (1882-1970)		 14 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Isaac Griffiths		 14 May 2024

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