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♂ William S. Evans
aliasWilliam S. Evans
Record
18969 · 14680

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 3 0 3
Total 3 1 4
Birth 18 December 1869 → 154 years + 4 months ago
Lived 79 years + 6 months
First mandate 18 July 1922 → 101 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 7 months
Death 27 June 1949 → 74 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 11 months after 26 July 1936
Special notes
None
 
William S. Evans (1869–1949)
© Photo 1911 Who’s Who in Western Canada via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ E. Gurney V. Evans (1907–1987) Son  
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 14 0 6 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 19
CONS
 1 ✓ Party leader 63–66 16 Apr 1933 — 08 Jun 1936 3 1 23
2. MB 19
CONS
 1 Opposition Leader 63–66 16 Apr 1933 — 12 Jun 1936 3 1 27

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
59 documented challengers
⊖ Victor B. Anderson  m 
⊖ George Armstrong  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ David W. Bole  m 
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ George F. Chipman  m 
⊖ Frederick J. Dixon  m 
⊖ John K. Downes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert A. Gillespie  m 
⊖ Martha J.R. Hample  f 
⊖ Theodore A. Hunt  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Clarence G. Keith  m 
⊖ Walter J. Lindal  m 
⊖ Jessie M.M. Maclennan  f 
⊖ H. Ralph Maybank  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Daniel McLean  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William C. Morden  m 
⊖ Thomas J. Murray  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Arthur W. Puttee  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John Y. Reid  m 
⊖ Edith F. Rogers  f  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Francis Sedziak  m 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ R. Wesley B. Swail  m 
⊖ Walter H. Trueman  m 
⊖ James Winning  m 
 		 ⊖ Constantine H. Andrusyshen  m 
⊖ James A. Barry  m 
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f 
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Richard W. Craig  m 
⊖ William J. Donovan  m 
⊖ Bernard B. Dubienski  m 
⊖ Árni Eggertsson  m 
⊖ Walter J. Fulton  m 
⊖ John T. Haig  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ H.P. Albert Hermanson  m 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m 
⊖ Robert Jacob  m 
⊖ Huntly D.B. Ketchen  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m 
⊖ William R. Milton  m 
⊖ Arthur E. Moore  m 
⊖ Leslie T. Morris  m 
⊖ Charles K. Newcombe  m 
⊖ Matthew Popovitch  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Hugh A. Robson  m 
⊖ Francis W. Russell  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ Arthur Sullivan  m 
⊖ William V. Tobias  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Tupper  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 9,630 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
10		 Manitoba
3 November 1904
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 20538(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
34
CONS
 2/3 4,032 41.87% -276 Winner:
LIB
 4,308 44.74% David W. Bole
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
CONS
 4/43 2,519 5.68% +924 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
57
CONS
 3/25 4,551 8.98% +2,504 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
62
CONS
 1/29 13,507 17.54% +10,052 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
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
66		 Successor:
ILCF
 3,459 4.36% Marcus Hyman

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Evans, William Sanford		 25 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Evans, William Sanford		 25 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William Sanford Evans (1869-1949)		 25 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
William Sanford Evans		 25 Feb 2024

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