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♂ Russell J. Doern
aliasRussell J. Doern
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 1 6
Birth 20 October 1935 → 88 years + 6 months ago
Lived 51 years + 3 months
First mandate 23 June 1966 → 57 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 30 years + 8 months
Death 19 February 1987 → 37 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 11 months + 2 days after 17 March 1986
Special notes
None
 
Russell J. Doern (1935–1987)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Doern left the NDP to sit as an independent MLA on March 7, 1984, due to his opposition to his government's efforts to legally entrench French-language services in Manitoba. Used to winning with comfortable margins, he was defeated in Elmwood in the 1986 general election. He committed suicide less than a year later, by all accounts distraught by the fact that he had little chance of returning to political life.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 19 8 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ John M. Kozoriz  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊕ Peter J. (Jim) Maloway  m 
 
Eligible: 12,201 Votes: 6,871 Participation: 56.32% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13831(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
30
NDP
 1/4 2,765 40.76% +949 Loser:
PC
 1,816 26.77% Tom Snowden

Service: 3 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,541 Votes: 6,417 Participation: 60.88% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13888(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
33
NDP
 1/3 3,803 59.59% +2,277 Loser:
PC
 1,526 23.91% Alan Gardiner

Service: 4 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,421 Votes: 8,732 Participation: 76.46% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9190(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
NDP
 1/3 4,987 57.25% +2,626 Loser:
PC
 2,361 27.10% Edward Tymchuk

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,195 Votes: 8,099 Participation: 72.34% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9247(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
NDP
 1/3 4,136 51.11% +854 Loser:
PC
 3,282 40.55% Ken Gunn-Walberg

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,506 Votes: 7,614 Participation: 66.17% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9304(F) — 20 Mar 2022 22:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
NDP
 1/4 5,140 67.83% +3,230 Loser:
PC
 1,910 25.20% Eveline Holtmann
After his election:
7 Mar 1984 48
NDP
 →
IND
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 4 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,044 Votes: 7,105 Participation: 64.33% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9361(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
50
IND
 2/4 2,006 28.37% -1,235 Winner:
NDP
 3,241 45.84% Peter J. (Jim) Maloway

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Doern, Russell John		 17 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Doern, Russell John		 17 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Russell John "Russ" Doern (1935-1987)		 17 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Russell Doern		 17 Feb 2024

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