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♂ Taras Dmytro Ferley
aliasTaras Ferley
Record
19618 · 14380

☆   Ukranian-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 14 October 1882 → 141 years + 6 months ago
Lived 64 years + 9 months
First mandate 6 August 1915 → 108 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 32 years + 9 months
Death 27 July 1947 → 76 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 29 days after 28 June 1920
Special notes
None
 
Taras Dmytro Ferley (1882–1947)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Elected in Gimli in 1915, Ferley was the first Ukrainian Canadian to sit in the Manitoba legislature.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 4 10 22 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Gudmundur Fjeldsted  m 
⊖ Sveinn Thorvaldson  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Einar S. Jonasson  m 
 
Eligible: 2,306 Votes: 1,770 Participation: 76.76% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 37001(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
31
LAB
 3/3 264 14.92% -781 Winner:
CONS
 1,045 59.04% Sveinn Thorvaldson
Eligible: 2,424 Votes: 1,734 Participation: 71.53% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37052(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
32
LIB
 1/2 1,172 67.59% +610 Loser:
CONS
 562 32.41% Sveinn Thorvaldson

Service: 4 years 10 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,219 Votes: 2,601 Participation: 61.65% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37155(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
37
LIB
 2/2 1,242 47.75% -117 Winner:
FARM
 1,359 52.25% Gudmundur Fjeldsted

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Ferley, Taras Dempster		 08 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Ferley, Taras Dempster		 08 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Taras Dmytro Ferley (1882-1947)		 08 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Taras Ferley		 08 Apr 2024

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