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♂ Philip Markus Petursson
aliasPhilip Petursson
Record
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☆   Icelandic-Canadian    Unitarian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 2 2
Manitoba 3 0 3
Total 3 2 5
Birth 21 October 1902 → 121 years + 6 months ago
Lived 85 years + 6 months
First mandate 23 June 1966 → 57 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 63 years + 8 months
Death 12 May 1988 → 35 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 10 years + 7 months after 10 October 1977
Special notes
None
 
Philip Markus Petursson (1902–1988)
© Photo Internet Archives via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Manitoba NDP MLA from 1966 to 1977, Petursson summed up his religious inclination in a 1942 radio broadcast by saying, "Religion must become more human centered — more humanistic generally — and must concern itself more with saving men’s souls by giving them an abundant life here, instead of continually calling on them to repent sins into which they have too often been driven by social and economic wrongs, which we permit to exist within the social order."
 

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Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 11 3 15 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Gordon M. Churchill  m 
⊖ William McGrava  m 
⊖ Robert J. Wood  m 
 		 ⊖ J. Gurzon Harvey  m 
⊖ Richard H. Seaborn  m 
 
Eligible: 20,501 Votes: 14,126 Participation: 68.90% Candidacies: 3
Federal
21		 Manitoba
27 June 1949
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23421(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
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 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
46
CCF
 2/3 4,776 34.08% -3,654 Winner:
LIB
 8,430 60.16% Robert J. Wood
Eligible: inc. Votes: 36,556 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Federal
27		 Manitoba
8 November 1965
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 25082(F) — 28 Jun 2023 12:38 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
63
NDP
 3/4 7,234 19.79% -8,062 Winner:
PC
 15,296 41.84% Gordon M. Churchill
Eligible: 11,334 Votes: 6,778 Participation: 59.80% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13875(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
63
NDP
 1/3 3,153 46.94% +706 Loser:
PC
 2,447 36.43% Richard H. Seaborn

Service: 3 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,953 Votes: 5,842 Participation: 58.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13932(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
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 Re-elected incumbent
Age
66
NDP
 1/3 3,260 56.04% +1,738 Loser:
PC
 1,522 26.16% William McGrava

Service: 4 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,083 Votes: 7,668 Participation: 76.05% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9234(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
70
NDP
 1/3 4,190 54.94% +1,918 Loser:
PC
 2,272 29.79% Brandson Thornson

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,650 Votes: 6,570 Participation: 75.95% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9291(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
74		 Successor:
NDP
 3,591 54.76% Brian M. Corrin

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Petursson, Philip Markus		 18 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Petursson, Philip Markus		 18 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Philip Markus Petursson (1902-1988)		 18 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Philip Petursson		 18 Apr 2024

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