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♂ Donald M. Malinowski
aliasDonald M. Malinowski
Record
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☆   Polish-Canadian    Polish Nat. Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 4 1 5
Birth 14 March 1924 → 100 years + 1 month ago
Lived 79 years + 2 months
First mandate 25 June 1969 → 54 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 3 months
Death 16 May 2003 → 20 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 17 years + 1 month after 17 March 1986
Special notes
None
 
Donald M. Malinowski (1924–2003)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Polish-born Malinowski was a Winnipeg area NDP MLA from 1969 to 1985. He was sentenced to death at the end of World War II for refusing to sign an oath of al­le­giance to the communist government that had come to power, but managed to escape from his prison to Sweden. In 1981, when he contested the NDP nomination for a fourth mandate in the riding of St. Johns against Roland Penner, he told party members that “anyone who voted for a communist would spend an eternity in hell.”
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 16 8 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph P. Borowski  m 
⊖ William A. Kardash  m 
⊖ Jaroslaw (Slaw) Rebchuk  m 
 		 ⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ Donald D. Marks  m 
⊖ William C. Ross  m 
 
Eligible: 12,366 Votes: 6,361 Participation: 51.44% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13876(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
42
NDP
 3/3 1,434 22.64% -1,548 Winner:
PC
 2,982 47.09% James Cowan
Eligible: 9,385 Votes: 4,352 Participation: 46.37% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13905(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
NDP
 1/4 2,253 52.52% +1,165 Loser:
PC
 1,088 25.36% Jaroslaw (Slaw) Rebchuk

Service: 4 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,706 Votes: 5,708 Participation: 65.56% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9207(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
49
NDP
 1/4 3,676 65.55% +2,549 Loser:
IND
 1,127 20.10% Joseph P. Borowski

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,193 Votes: 5,006 Participation: 61.10% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9264(F) — 25 Mar 2022 23:03 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
NDP
 1/5 3,116 63.32% +2,201 Loser:
PC
 915 18.59% Margaret Didenko

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,562 Votes: 7,096 Participation: 67.18% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9338(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
NDP
 1/5 4,004 56.99% +2,219 Loser:
PC
 1,785 25.41% Don Cilinsky

Service: 4 years 4 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,751 Votes: 6,711 Participation: 62.42% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9395(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
62		 Successor:
NDP
 3,753 56.39% K. Judith Wasylycia-Leis

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Malinowski, Donald		 11 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Malinowski, Donald		 11 Mar 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Donald Marto Malinowski (1924-2003)		 11 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Donald Malinowski (politician)		 11 Mar 2024

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