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♂ George Armstrong
aliasGeorge Armstrong
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 17%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 5 6
Birth 17 April 1870 → 154 years ago
Lived 85 years + 9 months
First mandate 29 June 1920 → 103 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 2 months
Death 13 February 1956 → 68 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 33 years + 6 months after 17 July 1922
Special notes
None
 
George Armstrong (1870–1956)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Armstrong was one of the three convicted criminals (for his involvement in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919) who was elected in the 1920 Manitoba general election. He was still in prison when elected as one of the MLAs for Winnipeg, representing the Socialist Party of Canada (Manitoba).
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 2 0 17 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
69 documented challengers
⊖ Victor B. Anderson  m 
⊖ Constantine H. Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f 
⊖ George F. Chipman  m 
⊖ Richard W. Craig  m 
⊖ Frederick J. Dixon  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ John K. Downes  m 
⊖ Árni Eggertsson  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Charles H. Forrester  m 
⊖ John T. Haig  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Martha J.R. Hample  f 
⊖ H.P. Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Richard J. Johns  m 
⊖ Clarence G. Keith  m 
⊖ Frederick W. Law  m 
⊖ James Lightfoot  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ H. Ralph Maybank  m 
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m 
⊖ William R. Milton  m 
⊖ William C. Morden  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas J. Murray  m 
⊖ William L. Parrish  m 
⊖ Matthew Popovitch  m 
⊖ George W. Prout  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Edith F. Rogers  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert B. Russell  m 
⊖ John Stovel  m 
⊖ R. Wesley B. Swail  m 
⊖ William V. Tobias  m 
⊖ William J. Tupper  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Winning  m 
 		 ⊖ Alfred J. Andrews  m 
⊖ James A. Barry  m 
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Christie  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ William J. Donovan  m 
⊖ Bernard B. Dubienski  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Edward B. Fisher  m 
⊖ Walter J. Fulton  m 
⊖ Thomas G. Hamilton  m 
⊖ Hannes M. Hannesson  m 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m 
⊖ Robert Jacob  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas H. Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Huntly D.B. Ketchen  m 
⊖ George H. Lawrence  m 
⊖ Robert N. Lowery  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m 
⊖ Frederick J.G. McArthur  m 
⊖ Daniel McLean  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m 
⊖ Leslie T. Morris  m 
⊖ Charles K. Newcombe  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m 
⊖ William A. Pritchard  m 
⊖ Arthur W. Puttee  m 
⊖ John Y. Reid  m 
⊖ Francis W. Russell  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ Arthur Sullivan  m 
⊖ Frederick G. Tipping  m 
⊖ Walter H. Trueman  m 
⊖ Leoni S. Warde  m 
 
Eligible: 6,352 Votes: 5,362 Participation: 84.41% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36980(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
40
SOC
 3/3 246 4.59% -2,332 Winner:
LIB
 2,578 48.08% Thomas H. Johnson
Eligible: 18,501 Votes: 15,825 Participation: 85.54% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 37030(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
44
LAB
 3/3 928 5.86% -7,277 Winner:
IND
 8,205 51.85% Frederick J. Dixon
Eligible: 13,373 Votes: 9,295 Participation: 69.51% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37082(F) — 20 Mar 2022 11:48 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
45
SDP
 3/3 804 8.65% -5,639 Winner:
IND
 6,443 69.32% Frederick J. Dixon
Eligible: 62,255 Votes: 47,427 Participation: 76.18% Candidacies: 41
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37184(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
SOC
 8/41 2,767 5.83% +1,232 Loser:
SOC
 1,535 3.24% Robert B. Russell
After his election:
1 Dec 1920 50
SOC
 →
ILP
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 2 years 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 61,662 Votes: 44,328 Participation: 71.89% Candidacies: 43
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37233(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
52
ILP
 12/43 1,273 2.87% 94 Winner:
PROG
 1,179 2.66% Richard W. Craig
Eligible: 119,754 Votes: 76,991 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37381(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
62
SOC
 22/29 848 1.10% -2,097 Winner:
LIBP
 2,945 3.83% H. Ralph Maybank

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Armstrong, George		 03 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Armstrong, George		 03 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
George Armstrong (1870-1956)		 03 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
George Armstrong (Manitoba politician)		 03 Feb 2024

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