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♂ Thorkell Wallace Johannson
aliasWally Johannson
Record
30010 · 3794

Icelandic-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Not in office Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 1 3
Birth 10 April 1936
Age 88 years
First mandate 25 June 1969 → 54 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 2 months
 
Mandate ended 46 years + 6 months ago (10 October 1977)
Special notes
None
 
Thorkell Wallace (Wally) Johannson (1936– )
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba — Fair trade
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 8 3 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊕ Leonard A. Domino  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert A. Steen  m 
 
Eligible: 10,542 Votes: 6,349 Participation: 60.23% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13923(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
NDP
 1/3 2,974 47.13% +757 Loser:
PC
 2,217 35.13% Robert A. Steen

Service: 4 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,257 Votes: 7,787 Participation: 75.92% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9221(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
NDP
 1/3 3,875 50.12% +1,383 Loser:
PC
 2,492 32.23% Einar Arnason

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 9,327 Votes: 6,738 Participation: 72.24% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9282(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
41
NDP
 2/4 2,995 45.07% -124 Winner:
PC
 3,119 46.94% Leonard A. Domino

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Living
Johannson, Thorkell Wallace		 10 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés
Johannson, Thorkell Wallace		 10 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Wally Johannson		 10 Apr 2024

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