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♂ William Verner Tobias
aliasWilliam Tobias
Record
61378 · 14695

Judaism   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 10 March 1892 → 132 years + 2 months ago
Lived 49 years + 7 months
First mandate 28 June 1927 → 96 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 35 years + 3 months
Death 16 October 1941 → 82 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 9 years + 4 months after 15 June 1932
Special notes
None
 
William Verner Tobias (1892–1941)
© 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 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
54 documented challengers
⊖ Victor Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m 
⊖ James Barry  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ John Downes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harrison Dysart  m 
⊖ Seymour Farmer  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Alexander Gillespie  m 
⊖ John Haig  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Madeline E. Hryniewiecki  f 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m 
⊖ Bill Kardash  m 
⊖ Huntly Ketchen  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Stephen Krawchyk  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ William Major  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Jack Moore  m 
⊖ Asta A. Oddson  f 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John Reid  m 
⊖ Edith Rogers  f 
⊖ Frank Sedziak  m 
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ Solly Thorvaldson  m 
 		 ⊖ Constantine Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ Paul Bardal  m 
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f 
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Walter Fulton  m 
⊖ Morris A. Gray  m 
⊖ Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Theodore Hunt  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Clarence Keith  m 
⊖ Stanley Knowles  m 
⊖ Walter Lindal  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ Ralph Maybank  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Leslie Morris  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Laurier Régnier  m 
⊖ Hugh Robson  m 
⊖ Frank Russell  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ Lewis Stubbs  m 
⊖ Wesley Swail  m 
⊖ Frederick Warriner  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
35
CONS
 9/25 1,687 3.33% -360 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
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
40
CONS
 13/29 1,991 2.59% -954 Winner:
LIBP
 2,945 3.83% H. Ralph Maybank
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
49
IND
 14/27 1,815 3.09% -1,271 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
Tobias, William Verner		 15 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Tobias, William Verner		 15 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William Verner Tobias (1892-1941)		 15 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
William Tobias		 15 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 15 May 2024 08:17 (but data presented dynamically)

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