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♀ E. Salome Halldorson
aliasE. Salome Halldorson
Record
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☆   Icelandic-Canadian    Lutheran   ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 1 1 2
Total 1 2 3
Birth 29 December 1887 → 136 years + 4 months ago
Lived 82 years + 5 months
First mandate 27 July 1936 → 87 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 6 months
Death 31 May 1970 → 53 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 29 years + 1 month after 21 April 1941
Special notes
None
 
E. Salome Halldorson (1887–1970)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Christian Halldorson (1891–1956) Brother  
 
Well that's interesting!
In 1936, Halldorson was elected for one term to the Manitoba assembly as the Social Credit MLA for St. George. She returned to teaching languages after she was soundly defeated in 1941 but, in 1953, she wrote against the government's proposed anti-discrimination legislation, considering it as unduly restricting the freedom of employers.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 4 8 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊖ William S. Bryce  m 
⊖ Skuli Sigfusson  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Charles E. Fillmore  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
SC
 1/2 1,402 52.95% +156 Loser:
LIBP
 1,246 47.05% Skuli Sigfusson
After her election:
17 Nov 1940 52
SC
 →
SC
 Changed allegiance ()
1 Feb 1941 53
SC
 →
ACSC
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 8 months 25 days (Oppo.)
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
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
53
ACSC
 2/2 881 37.36% -596 Winner:
LIBP
 1,477 62.64% Skuli Sigfusson
Eligible: 29,253 Votes: 14,010 Participation: 47.89% Candidacies: 3
Federal
19		 Manitoba
9 August 1943
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23116(F) — 6 Sep 2022 20:53 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
55
SC
 3/3 833 5.95% -8,563 Winner:
CCF
 9,396 67.07% William S. Bryce

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Halldorson, Salome (Miss)		 25 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Halldorson, Salome (Mlle)		 25 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Elin Salome Halldorson (1887-1970)		 25 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Salome Halldorson		 25 Feb 2024

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