Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → Abram W. Harrison

♂ Abram W. Harrison
aliasAbram W. Harrison
Record
26216 · 14190

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 7 0 7
Birth 15 July 1898 → 125 years + 9 months ago
Lived 81 years + 3 months
First mandate 22 June 1943 → 80 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 11 months
Death 14 November 1979 → 44 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 13 years + 4 months after 22 June 1966
Special notes
None
 
Abram W. Harrison (1898–1979)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 22 11 24 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 25–27
PC
 1 Speaker 60–64 23 Oct 1958 — 27 Feb 1963 4 4 4

Electoral history

Races 7  
Path points 8  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Walter E. Clark  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Clifford W. Landerkin  m 
 
Eligible: 3,528 Votes: 2,365 Participation: 67.04% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 June 1943
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37479(F) — 15 Sep 2022 22:48 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
CONS
 1/2 1,378 58.27% +391 Loser:
CCF
 987 41.73% Robert M. Chapman

Service: 2 years 3 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,360 Votes: 2,555 Participation: 76.04% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37504(F) — 17 Sep 2022 12:06 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
PC
 1/3 1,045 41.08% +106 Loser:
LIBP
 939 36.91% Gordon M. Anderson

Service: 4 years 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,910 Votes: 3,432 Participation: 69.90% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37552(F) — 17 Sep 2022 12:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
PC
 1/2 1,870 54.81% +328 Loser:
LIBP
 1,542 45.19% Abraham B. Fee
After his election:
19 Aug 1950 52
PC
 →
PC
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 3 years 6 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,931 Votes: 3,733 Participation: 75.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
8 June 1953
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37601(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
PC
 1/3 1,786 48.51% +556 Loser:
LIBP
 1,230 33.41% Clifford W. Landerkin

Service: 5 years 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,490 Votes: 4,730 Participation: 72.88% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37670(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
PC
 1/2 2,465 52.54% +238 Loser:
LIBP
 2,227 47.46% Walter E. Clark

Service: 10 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,491 Votes: 5,041 Participation: 77.66% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37727(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
PC
 1/3 2,545 50.70% +702 Loser:
LIBP
 1,843 36.71% Walter E. Clark

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,301 Votes: 4,744 Participation: 75.29% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37789(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
64
PC
 1/3 2,444 51.82% +429 Loser:
LIB
 2,015 42.73% Harold R. Parsonage

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,914 Votes: 4,381 Participation: 74.08% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13855(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
67		 Successor:
PC
 1,835 42.05% Henry J. Einarson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Harrison, Abram William		 10 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Harrison, Abram William		 10 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Abram William Harrison (1898-1979)		 10 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Abram Harrison		 10 Feb 2024

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 10 Feb 2024 16:28 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.