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♂ Harry Shafransky
aliasHarry Shafransky
Record
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Polish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 2 2
Manitoba 2 2 4
Total 2 4 6
Birth 4 September 1930 → 93 years + 7 months ago
Lived 56 years
First mandate 25 June 1969 → 54 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 9 months
Death 10 September 1986 → 37 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 8 years + 11 months after 10 October 1977
Special notes
None
 
Harry Shafransky (1930–1986)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
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 6  
Path points 6  
7 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph-Phillippe Guay  m 
⊖ Abe Kovnats  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Michael Posmituck  m 
⊖ Roger-Joseph Teillet  m 
 		 ⊖ Edward J.A. Kotowich  m 
⊖ Gildas L. Molgat  m 
⊖ Eveline M.B. Reese  f 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 33,383 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
27		 Manitoba
8 November 1965
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 25078(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
35
NDP
 3/3 8,923 26.73% -5,038 Winner:
LIB
 13,961 41.82% Roger-Joseph Teillet
Eligible: 5,730 Votes: 3,977 Participation: 69.41% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13868(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
35
NDP
 4/4 86 2.17% -2,324 Winner:
LIB
 2,410 60.89% Gildas L. Molgat
Eligible: inc. Votes: 42,595 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Federal
28		 Manitoba
25 June 1968
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 9920(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
37
NDP
 2/4 11,566 27.15% -10,466 Winner:
LIB
 22,032 51.72% Joseph-Phillippe Guay
Eligible: 10,474 Votes: 7,052 Participation: 67.33% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13907(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
NDP
 1/3 3,707 52.62% +1,423 Loser:
LIB
 2,284 32.42% Edward J.A. Kotowich

Service: 4 years 2 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,820 Votes: 9,678 Participation: 81.88% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9209(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
NDP
 1/3 4,267 44.25% +632 Loser:
PC
 3,635 37.70% Abe Kovnats

Service: 4 years 3 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 11,841 Votes: 9,698 Participation: 81.90% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9266(F) — 26 Feb 2024 21:17 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
47
NDP
 2/3 3,757 38.79% -778 Winner:
PC
 4,535 46.82% Abe Kovnats

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Shafransky, Harry		 26 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Shafransky, Harry		 26 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Harry Shafransky (1930-1986)		 26 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Harry Shafransky		 26 Feb 2024

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