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♂ William James Major
aliasWilliam Major
Record
38844 · 14693

Protestant   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 0 3
Birth 10 November 1881 → 142 years + 6 months ago
Lived 71 years + 9 months
First mandate 28 June 1927 → 96 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 7 months
Death 13 August 1953 → 70 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 4 months after 1 April 1941
Special notes
None
 
William James Major (1881–1953)
© 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 13 9 1 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 5  
44 documented challengers
⊖ Victor Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m 
⊖ James Barry  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ John Downes  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Walter Fulton  m 
⊖ John Haig  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Theodore Hunt  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Huntly Ketchen  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Litterick  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Jack Moore  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John Reid  m 
⊖ Hugh Robson  m 
⊖ Frank Russell  m 
⊖ Lewis Stubbs  m 
⊖ Wesley Swail  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William Tobias  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Constantine Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ Paul Bardal  m 
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ Seymour Farmer  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Alexander Gillespie  m 
⊖ Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Clarence Keith  m 
⊖ Walter Lindal  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ Ralph Maybank  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Leslie Morris  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Cecil Rice-Jones  m 
⊖ Edith Rogers  f 
⊖ Frank Sedziak  m 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ Solly Thorvaldson  m 
⊖ Ralph Webb  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
PROG
 6/25 3,713 7.32% +1,666 Loser:
MOD
 2,047 4.04% John K. Downes

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
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
50
LIBP
 5/29 5,940 7.72% +2,485 Loser:
COMM
 3,455 4.49% Leslie T. Morris

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Gov't)
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
Age
54
LIBP
 9/21 5,211 6.57% +1,362 Loser:
LIBP
 3,849 4.85% Mary Dyma
After his election:
17 Nov 1940 59
LIBP
 →
LIBP
 Changed allegiance ()
1 Apr 1941 59
LIBP
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 4 years 8 months 5 days (Gov't)
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
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
59		 Successor:
CCF
 3,086 5.26% Morris A. Gray

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Major, William James		 14 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Major, William James		 14 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William James Major (1881-1953)		 14 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
William James Major		 14 May 2024
FR Wikipédia
William James Major		 14 May 2024

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