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♂ Leonard Salusbury Evans
aliasLen Evans
Record
18960 · 3798

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 89%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 8 0 8
Total 8 1 9
Birth 19 August 1929 → 94 years + 8 months ago
Lived 86 years + 4 months
First mandate 25 June 1969 → 54 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 10 months
Death 2 January 2016 → 8 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 3 months after 20 September 1999
Special notes
None
 
Leonard Salusbury Evans (1929–2016)
© Photo Brenda Evans via the Manitoba Historical Society — 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 30 2 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 9  
Path points 10  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Kenneth J. Burgess  m 
⊖ George C. MacLean  m 
⊖ Terry Penton  m 
 		 ⊖ John W. Gross  m 
⊖ Eileen M. McFadden  f 
⊖ Fernand Viau  m 
 
Eligible: 31,179 Votes: 18,822 Participation: 60.37% Candidacies: 3
Federal
22		 Manitoba
10 August 1953
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23719(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
23
CCF
 2/3 5,568 29.91% -2,483 Winner:
LIB
 8,051 43.25% Fernand Viau
Eligible: 10,069 Votes: 6,225 Participation: 61.82% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13881(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
NDP
 1/3 3,035 49.02% +1,073 Loser:
PC
 1,962 31.69% Emily Lyons

Service: 4 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,037 Votes: 8,016 Participation: 72.63% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9183(F) — 25 Mar 2022 21:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
NDP
 1/4 4,123 51.74% +1,211 Loser:
PC
 2,912 36.55% Kenneth J. Burgess

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,052 Votes: 7,986 Participation: 72.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9240(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
NDP
 1/3 4,217 52.91% +1,022 Loser:
PC
 3,195 40.09% James Thornborough

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,527 Votes: 8,119 Participation: 70.43% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9297(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
NDP
 1/3 4,941 61.16% +2,315 Loser:
PC
 2,626 32.50% Gary Nowazek

Service: 4 years 4 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,806 Votes: 7,912 Participation: 67.02% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9353(F) — 26 Mar 2022 13:05 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
NDP
 1/3 4,173 52.88% +989 Loser:
PC
 3,184 40.34% Jim Armstrong

Service: 2 years 1 month 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,749 Votes: 8,855 Participation: 75.37% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Manitoba
26 April 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 9410(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
NDP
 1/4 3,512 39.73% +653 Loser:
PC
 2,859 32.35% Jim Armstrong

Service: 2 years 4 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,230 Votes: 8,933 Participation: 67.52% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
35		 Manitoba
11 September 1990
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9467(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
61
NDP
 1/3 4,760 53.51% +1,544 Loser:
PC
 3,216 36.16% Ron Arnst

Service: 4 years 7 months 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,037 Votes: 8,198 Participation: 62.88% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
36		 Manitoba
25 April 1995
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9524(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
65
NDP
 1/3 4,395 53.78% +1,787 Loser:
PC
 2,608 31.91% Greg Dinsdale

Service: 4 years 4 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,362 Votes: 7,955 Participation: 64.35% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
37		 Manitoba
21 September 1999
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9581(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
70		 Successor:
NDP
 4,840 61.28% Drew Caldwell

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Evans, Leonard Salusbury		 20 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Evans, Leonard Salusbury		 20 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Leonard Salusbury "Len" Evans (1929-2016)		 20 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Leonard Evans		 20 Apr 2024

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