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♂ Skuli Sigfusson
aliasSkuli Sigfusson
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 63%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 3 8
Birth 1 October 1870 → 153 years + 6 months ago
Lived 99 years + 1 month
First mandate 6 August 1915 → 108 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 10 months
Death 27 November 1969 → 54 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 24 years + 1 month after 14 October 1945
Special notes
None
 
Skuli Sigfusson (1870–1969)
© Photo c.1932&nash;36 Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Svein O. Sigfusson (1912–1992) Son  
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 23 4 21 Z

Electoral history

Races 8  
Path points 9  
3 documented challengers
⊖ E. Salome Halldorson  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Edmund L. Taylor  m 
 		 ⊖ Albert E. Kristjansson  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 3,465 Votes: 2,295 Participation: 66.23% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 37033(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
43
LIB
 2/2 1,097 47.80% -101 Winner:
CONS
 1,198 52.20% Edmund L. Taylor
Eligible: 3,726 Votes: 2,122 Participation: 56.95% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37075(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
LIB
 1/2 1,291 60.84% +460 Loser:
CONS
 831 39.16% Paul Reykdal

Service: 4 years 10 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,624 Votes: 1,685 Participation: 46.50% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37178(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
49
LIB
 2/2 784 46.53% -117 Winner:
DLP
 901 53.47% Albert E. Kristjansson
Eligible: 4,532 Votes: 2,372 Participation: 52.34% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37227(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
51
LIB
 1/2 1,512 63.74% +652 Loser:
PROG
 860 36.26% Albert E. Kristjansson

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,522 Votes: 1,804 Participation: 51.22% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37325(F) — 13 Aug 2022 14:10 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
LIB
 1/3 814 45.12% +290 Loser:
PROG
 524 29.05% Albert E. Kristjansson

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 3,501 Votes: 2,708 Participation: 77.35% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37375(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
61
LIBP
 1/2 1,604 59.23% +500 Loser:
CONS
 1,104 40.77% Robert Kerr

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,856 Votes: 2,699 Participation: 69.99% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37425(F) — 15 Sep 2022 07:29 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
65
LIBP
 2/2 1,246 47.05% -156 Winner:
SC
 1,402 52.95% E. Salome Halldorson
Eligible: 3,984 Votes: 2,405 Participation: 60.37% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37471(F) — 16 Sep 2022 19:29 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
70
LIBP
 1/2 1,477 62.64% +596 Loser:
ACSC
 881 37.36% E. Salome Halldorson

Service: 4 years 5 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,624 Votes: 2,244 Participation: 61.92% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37522(F) — 17 Sep 2022 15:57 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
75		 Successor:
LIBP
 1,150 52.73% Christian Halldorson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Sigfusson, Skuli		 20 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Sigfusson, Skuli		 20 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Skuli Sigfusson (1870-1969)		 20 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Skuli Sigfusson		 20 Apr 2024

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