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♂ Alvin Daniel McKenzie
aliasDan McKenzie
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Canada 5 0 5
Birth 25 March 1924 → 100 years + 1 month ago
Lived 65 years + 4 months
First mandate 30 October 1972 → 51 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 7 months
Death 15 August 1989 → 34 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 8 months + 26 days after 20 November 1988
Special notes
None
 
Alvin Daniel (Dan) McKenzie (1924–1989)
© Photo 1984 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
We sometimes hear the expression, "He was a man of his time." Well, McKenzie, a Manitoba Progressive Conservative MP from 1972 to 1988, was not. Following a 1982 trip to South Africa, he endorsed apartheid, arguing that South African Blacks were intellectually inferior to Whites.
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Winnipeg, Manitoba (1971–1972)
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 16 0 17

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Edmund B. Osler  m 
 
 
Eligible: 72,626 Votes: 56,526 Participation: 77.83% Candidacies: 3
Federal
29		 Manitoba
30 October 1972
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 10182(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
48
PC
 1/3 25,550 45.20% +5,034 Loser:
LIB
 20,516 36.29% Edmund B. Osler

Service: 1 year 8 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 72,626 Votes: 56,523 Participation: 77.83% Candidacies: 5
Federal
30		 Manitoba
8 July 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10446(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
PC
 1/5 32,277 57.10% +16,321 Loser:
LIB
 15,956 28.23% Doug McEwen

Service: 4 years 10 months 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 63,120 Votes: 50,031 Participation: 79.26% Candidacies: 5
Federal
31		 Manitoba
22 May 1979
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 4378(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
PC
 1/5 28,192 56.35% +14,524 Loser:
LIB
 13,668 27.32% David Matas

Service: 8 months 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 63,120 Votes: 45,194 Participation: 71.60% Candidacies: 5
Federal
32		 Manitoba
18 February 1980
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 4096(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
PC
 1/5 22,160 49.10% +6,736 Loser:
LIB
 15,424 34.17% David Matas

Service: 4 years 6 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 67,698 Votes: 52,855 Participation: 78.07% Candidacies: 5
Federal
33		 Manitoba
4 September 1984
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 3810(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
PC
 1/5 27,567 52.36% +11,367 Loser:
LIB
 16,200 30.77% John Matas

Service: 4 years 2 months 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 49,762 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Federal
34		 Manitoba
21 November 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 3515(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
64		 Successor:
PC
 22,865 45.95% Dorothy I.E. Dobbie

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Alvin Daniel "Dan" McKenzie (1924-1989)		 20 Apr 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
A. Daniel McKenzie, M.P.		 20 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
A. Daniel McKenzie, député		 20 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
A. Daniel McKenzie		 20 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
A. Daniel McKenzie		 20 Apr 2024

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