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♂ Seymour James Farmer
aliasSeymour Farmer
Record
19234 · 14678

  
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 6 0 6
Birth 20 June 1878 → 145 years + 10 months ago
Lived 72 years + 6 months
First mandate 18 July 1922 → 101 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 44 years
Death 16 January 1951 → 73 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 1 year + 2 months after 9 November 1949
Special notes
None
 
Seymour James Farmer (1878–1951)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Elections or appointments outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
✗
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Winnipeg, Manitoba (1923–1924)
Mun./Co. Council Winnipeg, Manitoba
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 27 3 17 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 19–22
ILP
 1 Party leader 57–68 01 Jul 1935 — 15 Jun 1947 11 11 14
2. MB 21–22
CCF
 1 Opposition Leader 64–68 02 Feb 1943 — 15 Jun 1947 4 4 13

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
81 documented challengers
⊖ Victor Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Barry  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ George Chipman  m 
⊖ Richard W. Craig  m 
⊖ Fred Dixon  m 
⊖ John Downes  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ Árni Eggertsson  m 
⊖ Walter Fulton  m 
⊖ Morris A. Gray  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Martha J.R. Hample  f 
⊖ Madeline E. Hryniewiecki  f 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Jacob  m 
⊖ Clarence Keith  m 
⊖ Stanley Knowles  m 
⊖ Walter Lindal  m 
⊖ Morley S. Lougheed  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ Ralph Maybank  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Daniel McLean  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William Morden  m 
⊖ Thomas J. Murray  m 
⊖ Asta A. Oddson  f 
⊖ Matthew Popovitch  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ John Reid  m 
⊖ Hugh Robson  m 
⊖ Frank Russell  m 
⊖ Frank Sedziak  m 
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ Arthur Sullivan  m 
⊖ Don Swailes  m 
⊖ William Tobias  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Tupper  m 
⊖ Ralph Webb  m 
⊖ Joseph Zuken  m 
 		 ⊖ Constantine Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ Paul Bardal  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ William Donovan  m 
⊖ Bernard Dubienski  m 
⊖ Harrison Dysart  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Alexander Gillespie  m 
⊖ John Haig  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Theodore Hunt  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ Bill Kardash  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Huntly Ketchen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Stephen Krawchyk  m 
⊖ James Litterick  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ William Major  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ William Milton  m 
⊖ Jack Moore  m 
⊖ Leslie Morris  m 
⊖ Charles Newcombe  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Arthur W. Puttee  m 
⊖ Laurier Régnier  m 
⊖ Cecil Rice-Jones  m 
⊖ Edith Rogers  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William Scraba  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Lewis Stubbs  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Lloyd Stinson  m 
⊖ Wesley Swail  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Solly Thorvaldson  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Walter H. Trueman  m 
⊖ Frederick Warriner  m 
⊖ James Winning  m 
 
Eligible: 61,662 Votes: 44,328 Participation: 71.89% Candidacies: 43
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37233(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
ILP
 7/43 1,195 2.70% -400 Loser:
LIB
 1,595 3.60% Duncan Cameron

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 67,124 Votes: 50,706 Participation: 62.30% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37331(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
ILP
 5/25 3,497 6.90% +1,450 Loser:
MOD
 2,047 4.04% John K. Downes

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 119,754 Votes: 76,991 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37381(F) — 15 May 2024 14:16 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
ILCF
 4/29 5,053 6.56% +1,598 Loser:
COMM
 3,455 4.49% Leslie T. Morris

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 133,666 Votes: 80,830 Participation: 60.47% Candidacies: 21
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37431(F) — 15 May 2024 14:16 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
58
ILCF
 5/21 1,969 2.48% -1,880 Loser:
LIBP
 3,849 4.85% Mary Dyma
After his election:
17 Nov 1940 62
ILCF
 →
CCF
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 8 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 137,437 Votes: 59,715 Participation: 43.45% Candidacies: 27
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37477(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
62
CCF
 6/27 2,249 3.83% +79 Loser:
CCF
 2,170 3.70% John Queen
After his election:
22 Dec 1942 64
CCF
 →
CCF
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 5 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 155,824 Votes: 79,433 Participation: 50.98% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37528(F) — 4 Feb 2023 13:19 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
67
CCF
 2/20 11,237 14.15% +8,225 Loser:
PC
 3,012 3.79% Mark J. Long

Service: 4 years 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 50,339 Votes: 20,675 Participation: 41.07% Candidacies: 9
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Single trans. vote (4)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37576(F) — 17 Sep 2022 18:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
71		 Successor:
LIBP
 1,839 8.99% Paul Bardal

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Farmer, Seymour James		 14 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Farmer, Seymour James		 14 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Seymour James Farmer (1878-1951)		 14 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Seymour Farmer		 14 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 14 May 2024 19:13 (but data presented dynamically)

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