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♂ Israel Harold Asper
aliasIzzy Asper
Record
1698 · 3818

Judaism   ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 0 2
Birth 11 August 1932 → 91 years + 8 months ago
Lived 71 years + 1 month
First mandate 16 June 1972 → 51 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 10 months
Death 7 October 2003 → 20 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 28 years + 7 months after 1 March 1975
Special notes
None
 
Israel Harold (Izzy) Asper (1932–2003)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ Linda Asper (1943–) Sister-in-law  
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 2 8 13 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 29–30
LIB
 1 Party leader 38–42 31 Oct 1970 — 21 Feb 1975 4 3 21

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Ernest J. Enns  m 
⊕ Victor H. Schroeder  m 
 		 ⊖ Murdoch MacKay  m 
⊖ Robert A. Steen  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,020 Participation: 73.34% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
16 June 1972
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13943(F) — 13 Feb 2024 10:30 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
39
LIB
 1/4 3,530 44.01% +1,259 Loser:
PC
 2,271 28.32% Ernest J. Enns

Service: 1 year 11 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,419 Votes: 8,137 Participation: 78.10% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9236(F) — 20 Feb 2024 18:43 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
40
LIB
 1/3 3,135 38.83% +4 Loser:
NDP
 3,131 38.78% Murdoch MacKay
After his election:
1 Mar 1975 42
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 8 months 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,812 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
25 June 1975
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 10969(F) — 20 Feb 2024 18:43 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
42		 Successor:
PC
 2,072 35.65% Robert G. Wilson

Online biographical references (5)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Izzy Asper		 21 Apr 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Izzy Asper		 21 Apr 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Asper, Israel Harold		 21 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Asper, Israel Harold		 21 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper (1932-2003)		 21 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Izzy Asper		 21 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Israel Asper		 21 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 21 Apr 2024 15:40 (but data presented dynamically)

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