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♂ Steinn Olafur Thompson
aliasSteinn Thompson
Record
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Icelandic-Canadian    Unitarian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 23 November 1893 → 130 years + 5 months ago
Lived 78 years + 8 months
First mandate 15 October 1945 → 78 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 51 years + 10 months
Death 19 August 1972 → 51 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 14 years + 2 months after 15 June 1958
Special notes
None
 
Steinn Olafur Thompson (1893–1972)
© 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 12 7 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ George Johnson  m 
 		 ⊖ Mitch Sago  m 
 
Eligible: 6,050 Votes: 3,845 Participation: 63.55% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37498(F) — 17 Sep 2022 10:31 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
51
LIBP
 1/3 2,133 55.97% +701 Loser:
CCF
 1,432 37.58% Snabjorn S. Johnson

Service: 4 years 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,692 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37546(F) — 17 Sep 2022 10:30 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
LIBP
 1/1 By acclamation
After his election:
19 Aug 1950 56
LIBP
 →
LIBP
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 3 years 6 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,207 Votes: 3,361 Participation: 54.15% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
8 June 1953
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37596(F) — 20 Mar 2022 18:41 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
LIBP
 1/3 2,252 67.97% +1,385 Loser:
SC
 867 26.17% Elmer H. Fitch

Service: 5 years 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,297 Votes: 4,353 Participation: 69.13% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37652(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
64
LIBP
 2/3 1,374 31.84% -614 Winner:
PC
 1,988 46.06% George Johnson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Thompson, Steinn Olafur M.D.		 17 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Thompson, Steinn Olafur (Dr.)		 17 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Steinn Olafur Thompson (1893-1972)		 17 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Steinn O. Thompson		 17 May 2024

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