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♂ John Kensington Downes
aliasJohn Downes
Record
16844 · 14679

Protestant   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 29 April 1879 → 145 years ago
Lived 64 years + 8 months
First mandate 18 July 1922 → 101 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 2 months
Death 28 January 1944 → 80 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 7 months after 27 June 1927
Special notes
None
 
John Kensington Downes (1879–1944)
© 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 4 11 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
61 documented challengers
⊖ George Armstrong  m 
⊖ James Barry  m 
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ William Donovan  m 
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ Árni Eggertsson  m 
⊖ Seymour Farmer  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Morris A. Gray  m 
⊖ Martha J.R. Hample  f 
⊖ Theodore Hunt  m 
⊖ Robert Jacob  m 
⊖ Huntly Ketchen  m 
⊖ Stephen Krawchyk  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ Ralph Maybank  m 
⊖ Daniel McLean  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m 
⊖ William Morden  m 
⊖ Charles Newcombe  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m 
⊖ Arthur W. Puttee  m 
⊖ Laurier Régnier  m 
⊖ Edith Rogers  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Simpkin  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Lewis Stubbs  m 
⊖ Arthur Sullivan  m 
⊖ William Tobias  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Tupper  m 
⊖ James Winning  m 
 		 ⊖ Paul Bardal  m 
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ George Chipman  m 
⊖ Richard W. Craig  m 
⊖ Fred Dixon  m 
⊖ Bernard Dubienski  m 
⊖ Harrison Dysart  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Alexander Gillespie  m 
⊖ John Haig  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Madeline E. Hryniewiecki  f 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Bill Kardash  m 
⊖ Stanley Knowles  m 
⊖ Walter Lindal  m 
⊖ William Major  m 
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m 
⊖ William Milton  m 
⊖ Jack Moore  m 
⊖ Thomas J. Murray  m 
⊖ Asta A. Oddson  f 
⊖ Matthew Popovitch  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Hugh Robson  m 
⊖ Frank Sedziak  m 
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ Solly Thorvaldson  m 
⊖ Walter H. Trueman  m 
⊖ Frederick Warriner  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
43
MOD
 3/43 3,621 8.17% +2,026 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
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
48
MOD
 11/25 2,047 4.04% -189 Winner:
PROG
 2,236 4.41% Edward W. Montgomery
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
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
61
IND
 26/27 192 0.33% -2,894 Winner:
CCF
 3,086 5.26% Morris A. Gray

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Downes, John K.		 14 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Downes, John K.		 14 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
John Kensington Downes (1879-1944)		 14 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
John K. Downes		 14 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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