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♂ Samuel Edward Burch
aliasSamuel Burch
Record
8207 · 14158

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 1 3
Birth 1 August 1889 → 134 years + 9 months ago
Lived 84 years + 7 months
First mandate 10 November 1949 → 74 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 60 years + 3 months
Death 4 March 1974 → 50 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 15 years + 8 months after 15 June 1958
Special notes
None
 
Samuel Edward Burch (1889–1974)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
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 8 7 3 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Marcel Boulic  m 
 
 
Eligible: 8,124 Votes: 4,413 Participation: 54.32% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37561(F) — 17 Sep 2022 13:41 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
60
LIBP
 1/3 2,208 50.26% +633 Loser:
PC
 1,575 35.85% Harold A. Nelson
After his election:
19 Aug 1950 61
LIBP
 →
LIBP
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 3 years 6 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,232 Votes: 4,936 Participation: 59.96% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
8 June 1953
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37609(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
LIBP
 1/3 2,133 43.60% +739 Loser:
SC
 1,394 28.50% Charles J. McKinnon

Service: 5 years 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,637 Votes: 4,522 Participation: 68.13% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37642(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
68
LIBP
 2/3 1,835 40.75% -512 Winner:
PC
 2,347 52.12% Pierre-Marcel J. Boulic

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Burch, Samuel Edward		 17 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Burch, Samuel Edward		 17 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Samuel Edward Burch (1889-1974)		 17 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Samuel Burch		 17 May 2024

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