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♂ Abraham Louis Simkin
aliasAbe Simkin
Record
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Judaism   ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 0 1 1
Birth 4 May 1922 → 102 years ago
Lived 98 years + 2 months
Only run 10 November 1949 → 74 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 27 years + 6 months
Death 22 July 2020 → 3 years + 9 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Abraham Louis (Abe) Simkin (1922–2020)
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Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Saul Simkin (1915–1994) Brother  
 

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path point 1  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Frank L. Chester  m 
⊖ John M. Hawryluk  m 
⊖ John M. Kozoriz  m 
 		 ⊖ Morris A. Gray  m 
⊖ William A. Kardash  m 
⊖ William Scraba  m 
 
Eligible: 46,649 Votes: 24,909 Participation: 53.40% Candidacies: 12
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Single trans. vote (4)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37533(F) — 9 Oct 2023 19:50 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
27
LIBP
 7/12 1,607 6.54% -331 Winner:
CCF
 1,938 7.88% John M. Hawryluk

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Abraham Louis "Abe" Simkin		 27 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Abraham L. "Abe" Simkin (1922-2020)		 27 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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