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♂ Peter Burtniak
aliasPeter Burtniak
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 2 4
Birth 26 March 1925 → 99 years + 1 month ago
Lived 79 years
First mandate 25 June 1969 → 54 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 2 months
Death 8 April 2004 → 20 years ago
Exit → Death 26 years + 5 months after 10 October 1977
Special notes
None
 
Peter Burtniak (1925–2004)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba 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 8 3 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊕ James G. Galbraith  m 
⊖ Stewart E. McLean  m 
 		 ⊖ Michael N. Hryhorczuk  m 
⊖ Arthur V. Rampton  m 
 
Eligible: 5,972 Votes: 4,556 Participation: 76.29% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37647(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
33
CCF
 2/3 1,377 30.46% -931 Winner:
LIBP
 2,308 51.06% Michael N. Hryhorczuk
Eligible: 9,271 Votes: 6,489 Participation: 69.99% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13887(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
NDP
 1/3 2,933 45.51% +41 Loser:
PC
 2,892 44.87% Stewart E. McLean

Service: 4 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,556 Votes: 8,661 Participation: 82.05% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9189(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
NDP
 1/3 4,261 49.47% +999 Loser:
PC
 3,262 37.87% Arthur V. Rampton

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,516 Votes: 8,989 Participation: 85.48% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9246(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
52
NDP
 2/2 4,330 48.54% -260 Winner:
PC
 4,590 51.46% James G. Galbraith

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Burtniak, Peter		 23 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Burtniak, Peter		 23 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Peter Burtniak (1925-2004)		 23 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Peter Burtniak		 23 Feb 2024

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