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♂ James Litterick
aliasJames Litterick
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 0 1
Birth 15 July 1901 → 122 years + 9 months ago
Lived Unknown
First mandate 27 July 1936 → 87 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 35 years
Death Unknown
 
Special notes
None
 
James Litterick (1901– ?)
© Photo c.1937–40 the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Born in Scotland, Litterick was expelled from the Manitoba legislature in 1940 when the Communist Party was declared illegal, but he had already gone into hiding. Little is known about him after that, but Norman Penner wrote in his book, Canadian Communism, that after the war, Litterick "was expelled from the Party for 'cowardice.'"
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 3 7 25 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
15 documented challengers
⊖ Paul Bardal  m 
⊖ Beatrice A. Brigden  f 
⊖ Marcus Hyman  m 
⊖ Huntly D.B. Ketchen  m 
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m 
⊖ Cecil Rice-Jones  m 
⊖ R. Wesley B. Swail  m 
⊖ Ralph H. Webb  m 
 		 ⊖ James A. Barry  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m 
⊖ John Queen  m 
⊖ Lewis St. George Stubbs  m 
⊖ Gunnar S. Thorvaldson  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
35
COMM
 2/21 5,864 7.39% +2,015 Loser:
LIBP
 3,849 4.85% Mary Dyma
After his election:
22 Mar 1940 38
COMM
 →
Vac.
 Election cancelled/Unseated
Service: 3 years 7 months 24 days (Oppo.)
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
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
39		 Successor:
CCF
 3,086 5.26% Morris A. Gray

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Litterick, James		 10 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Litterick, James		 10 Mar 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Litterick (1901-?)		 10 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Litterick		 10 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
James Litterick		 10 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 10 Mar 2024 16:31 (but data presented dynamically)

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