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♂ Ernest Charles Manning
aliasErnest Manning
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Alberta 9 0 9
Birth 20 September 1908 → 115 years + 7 months ago
Lived 87 years + 4 months
First mandate 22 August 1935 → 88 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 26 years + 11 months
Death 19 February 1996 → 28 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 2 months after 11 December 1968
Special notes
None
 
Ernest Charles Manning (1908–1996)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ E. Preston Manning (1942–) Son  
 
Well that's interesting!
Leader of the Alberta Social Credit, Manning served as premier for 25 years and 6 months — the longest anyone has occupied that position. He was the father of the founder of the Reform Party of Canada, Preston.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 33 3 12 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 9–16
SC
 1 Party leader 34–60 31 May 1943 — 11 Dec 1968 25 6 11
2. AB 9–16
SC
 1 Premier 34–60 31 May 1943 — 11 Dec 1968 25 6 11

Electoral history

Races 9  
Path points 10  
33 documented challengers
⊖ Clayton Adams  m 
⊖ Frederick Anderson  m 
⊖ John J. Bowlen  m 
⊖ Ivor G. Dent  m 
⊖ Hugh C. Farthing  m 
⊖ Edith H. Gostick  f 
⊖ Anthony Hlynka  m 
⊖ John W. Hugill  m 
⊖ Norman B. James  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
⊖ Marcel J.A. Lambert  m 
⊖ Hugh J. Macdonald  m 
⊖ C. Gerald O'Connor  m 
⊖ Robert H. Parkyn  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ Harold E. Tanner  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Williams  m 
 		 ⊖ Gerard J.T. van Amerongen  m 
⊖ Samuel A.G. Barnes  m 
⊖ Cora T. Casselman  f 
⊖ David M. Duggan  m 
⊖ Edgar H. Gerhart  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Louis W. Heard  m 
⊖ Ambrose A. Holowach  m 
⊖ John Irwin  m 
⊖ Floyd A. Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m 
⊖ Aylmer J.E. Liesemer  m 
⊖ Abe W. Miller  m 
⊖ J. Percy Page  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ J. Donovan Ross  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Fred J. White  m 
 
Eligible: 52,244 Votes: 42,001 Participation: 80.39% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27783(F) — 29 Oct 2022 12:14 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
26
SC
 2/20 6,087 14.78% +3,055 Loser:
SC
 3,032 7.36% O.G. Devenish

Service: 4 years 6 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 59,685 Votes: 42,665 Participation: 75.30% Candidacies: 17
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27852(F) — 6 Mar 2022 15:10 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
31
SC
 1/17 10,066 23.01% +6,094 Loser:
INDM
 3,972 9.08% C. Gerald O'Connor

Service: 4 years 4 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 65,651 Votes: 40,047 Participation: 61.00% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
10		 Alberta
8 August 1944
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27909(F) — 6 Mar 2022 16:56 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
35
SC
 2/20 14,271 37.72% +12,871 Loser:
INDM
 1,400 3.70% Johnnie T. Caine

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 84,391 Votes: 47,276 Participation: 56.02% Candidacies: 16
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27963(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:19 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
39
SC
 3/16 22,014 47.70% +19,291 Loser:
INDM
 2,723 5.90% J. Percy Page

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 108,424 Votes: 57,256 Participation: 52.81% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28014(F) — 29 Oct 2022 21:36 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
43
SC
 1/29 17,022 32.71% +15,641 Loser:
SC
 1,381 2.65% Ambrose A. Holowach

Service: 2 years 10 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 127,069 Votes: 82,792 Participation: 65.16% Candidacies: 30
Provincial
13		 Alberta
29 June 1955
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28066(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
46
SC
 1/30 23,216 30.33% +18,772 Loser:
CCF
 4,444 5.81% Elmer E. Roper

Service: 3 years 11 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 22,953 Votes: 14,787 Participation: 64.42% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28169(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
50
SC
 1/4 7,337 49.72% +3,525 Loser:
PC
 3,812 25.83% James E. Simpson

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 24,017 Votes: 12,856 Participation: 53.53% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28231(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:26 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
54
SC
 1/4 6,842 53.37% +4,212 Loser:
PC
 2,630 20.52% Oscar H. Kruger

Service: 3 years 11 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,282 Votes: 12,703 Participation: 65.88% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
16		 Alberta
23 May 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 13154(F) — 7 Mar 2022 21:38 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
58
SC
 1/4 6,314 49.89% +3,338 Loser:
PC
 2,976 23.51% C. Jack Thorpe
After his election:
11 Dec 1968 60
SC
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 6 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 19,282 Votes: 8,285 Participation: 42.97% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
16		 Alberta
10 February 1969
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 13183(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
60		 Successor:
PC
 3,783 45.66% William J. (Vasile) Yurko

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Honourable Ernest C. Manning PC, CC, AOE		 20 Apr 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Ernest Charles Manning, Senator, P.C., C.C., A.O.E.		 20 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Ernest Charles Manning, sénateur, C.P., C.C., A.O.E.		 20 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Ernest Manning		 20 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Ernest Manning		 20 Apr 2024

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