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♂ William Ivens
aliasWilliam Ivens
Record
29324 · 14665

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 57%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 4 2 6
Total 4 3 7
Birth 28 June 1878 → 145 years + 9 months ago
Lived 78 years + 11 months
First mandate 29 June 1920 → 103 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 42 years
Death 20 June 1957 → 66 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 20 years + 10 months after 26 July 1936
Special notes
None
 
William Ivens (1878–1957)
© Photo 1921 Legislative Assembly, Manitoba — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Ivens 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 Dominion Labour Party MLAs for Winnipeg.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 16 0 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 7  
Path points 7  
94 documented challengers
⊖ Victor B. Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ James A. Barry  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ George F. Chipman  m 
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Donovan  m 
⊖ Bernard B. Dubienski  m 
⊖ Harrison Dysart  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Edward B. Fisher  m 
⊖ Walter J. Fulton  m 
⊖ Morris A. Gray  m 
⊖ Thomas G. Hamilton  m 
⊖ H.P. Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Theodore A. Hunt  m 
⊖ Robert Jacob  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas H. Johnson  m 
⊖ Clarence G. Keith  m 
⊖ Stanley H. Knowles  m 
⊖ Frederick W. Law  m 
⊖ James Lightfoot  m 
⊖ James Litterick  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Daniel McLean  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William C. Morden  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas J. Murray  m 
⊖ Asta A. Oddson  f 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William A. Pritchard  m 
⊖ Arthur W. Puttee  m 
⊖ Laurier A. Régnier  m 
⊖ Cecil Rice-Jones  m 
⊖ Edith F. Rogers  f  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert B. Russell  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Lewis St. George Stubbs  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John Stovel  m 
⊖ R. Wesley B. Swail  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick G. Tipping  m 
⊖ Walter H. Trueman  m 
⊖ Leoni S. Warde  m 
⊖ Ralph H. Webb  m 
 		 ⊖ Constantine H. Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ Paul Bardal  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Christie  m 
⊖ Richard W. Craig  m 
⊖ Frederick J. Dixon  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John K. Downes  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ Árni Eggertsson  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ Charles H. Forrester  m 
⊖ Robert A. Gillespie  m 
⊖ John T. Haig  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Martha J.R. Hample  f 
⊖ Madeline E. Hryniewiecki  f 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Richard J. Johns  m 
⊖ William A. Kardash  m 
⊖ Huntly D.B. Ketchen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Stephen N. Krawchyk  m 
⊖ George H. Lawrence  m 
⊖ Walter J. Lindal  m 
⊖ Robert N. Lowery  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ H. Ralph Maybank  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Hugh B. McKinnon  m 
⊖ William R. Milton  m 
⊖ Arthur E. Moore  m 
⊖ Leslie T. Morris  m 
⊖ Charles K. Newcombe  m 
⊖ William L. Parrish  m 
⊖ Matthew Popovitch  m 
⊖ George W. Prout  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (6 runoffs)
⊖ John Y. Reid  m 
⊖ Hugh A. Robson  m 
⊖ Francis W. Russell  m 
⊖ Francis Sedziak  m 
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ Arthur Sullivan  m 
⊖ Gunnar S. Thorvaldson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William V. Tobias  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Tupper  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick E. Warriner  m 
⊖ James Winning  m 
 
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
42
DLP
 3/41 1,928 4.07% +393 Loser:
SOC
 1,535 3.24% Robert B. Russell

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
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
ILP
 8/43 1,238 2.79% -357 Loser:
LIB
 1,595 3.60% Duncan Cameron

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 67,124 Votes: 50,706 Participation: 62.30% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37331(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
ILP
 8/25 1,435 2.83% -612 Loser:
MOD
 2,047 4.04% John K. Downes

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
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
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
ILCF
 9/29 2,262 2.94% -1,193 Loser:
COMM
 3,455 4.49% Leslie T. Morris

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 133,666 Votes: 80,830 Participation: 60.47% Candidacies: 21
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37431(F) — 17 Aug 2023 08:01 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
58
ILCF
 17/21 1,136 1.43% -2,323 Winner:
ILCF
 3,459 4.36% Marcus Hyman
Eligible: 27,254 Votes: 19,054 Participation: 69.91% Candidacies: 3
Federal
19		 Ontario
26 March 1940
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22965(F) — 26 Jan 2022 13:20 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
61
CCF
 3/3 3,173 16.65% -7,422 Winner:
LIB
 10,595 55.61% Hugh B. McKinnon
Eligible: 137,437 Votes: 59,715 Participation: 43.45% Candidacies: 27
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37477(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
62
CCF
 17/27 962 1.64% -2,124 Winner:
CCF
 3,086 5.26% Morris A. Gray

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Ivens, William		 25 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Ivens, William		 25 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William "Bill" Ivens (1878-1957)		 25 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
William Ivens		 25 Feb 2024

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