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♂ Oscar F. Bjornson
aliasOscar F. Bjornson
Record
5084 · 3759

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 0 3
Birth 14 February 1906 → 118 years + 2 months ago
Lived 66 years + 5 months
First mandate 14 May 1959 → 64 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 3 months
Death 13 August 1972 → 51 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 3 years + 1 month after 24 June 1969
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 10 1 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊖ John Ateah  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Stanley Copp  m 
 		 ⊖ John W. Bracken  m 
⊖ Walter Zarecki  m 
 
Eligible: 5,622 Votes: 4,001 Participation: 71.17% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37715(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
PC
 1/4 1,357 33.98% +85 Loser:
LIBP
 1,272 31.86% John Ateah

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,698 Votes: 3,856 Participation: 67.67% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37777(F) — 12 Jan 2024 19:23 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
PC
 1/3 1,740 45.23% +476 Loser:
LIB
 1,264 32.86% John Ateah

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,398 Votes: 4,243 Participation: 66.32% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13841(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
PC
 1/4 1,342 31.73% +80 Loser:
LIB
 1,262 29.84% James Desilets

Service: 3 years 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,948 Votes: 6,160 Participation: 68.84% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13898(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
63		 Successor:
NDP
 4,060 66.20% Samuel Uskiw

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Bjornson, Oscar Ferdinand		 27 Jul 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Bjornson, Oscar Ferdinand		 27 Jul 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Oscar Ferdinand Bjornson (1906-1972)		 27 Jul 2023
EN Wikipedia
Oscar Bjornson		 27 Jul 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Jul 2023 23:34 (but data presented dynamically)

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