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♂ Nelson Menno Shoemaker
aliasNelson Shoemaker
Record
56557 · 3756

  
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 4 1 5
Birth 17 February 1911 → 113 years + 3 months ago
Lived 92 years + 3 months
First mandate 16 June 1958 → 65 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 3 months
Death 10 June 2003 → 20 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 33 years + 11 months after 24 June 1969
Special notes
None
 
Nelson Menno Shoemaker (1911–2003)
© Photo Liberal Party of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Neepawa, Manitoba (1956–1959)
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 11 0 5 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Jim Ferguson  m 
 		 ⊖ Melvin Murray  m 
 
Eligible: 6,703 Votes: 4,720 Participation: 70.42% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37653(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
47
LIBP
 1/3 2,570 54.66% +893 Loser:
PC
 1,677 35.67% Clayton Gault

Service: 10 months 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,899 Votes: 5,225 Participation: 75.74% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37710(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
LIBP
 1/3 2,469 47.46% +151 Loser:
PC
 2,318 44.56% Melvin E. Murray

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,483 Votes: 5,154 Participation: 79.50% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37772(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
LIB
 1/3 2,868 55.83% +848 Loser:
PC
 2,020 39.32% John A. McPhedran

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,263 Votes: 4,974 Participation: 79.42% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13837(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
LIB
 1/3 2,926 59.12% +1,139 Loser:
PC
 1,787 36.11% John A. McPhedran

Service: 3 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,124 Votes: 6,672 Participation: 73.13% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13894(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
58
LIB
 2/3 2,583 38.86% -417 Winner:
PC
 3,000 45.13% James R. Ferguson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Shoemaker, Nelson M.		 18 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Shoemaker, Nelson M.		 18 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Nelson Menno Shoemaker (1911-2003)		 18 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Nelson Shoemaker		 18 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 18 May 2024 16:53 (but data presented dynamically)

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