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♂ Abe Kovnats
aliasAbe Kovnats
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 60%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 2 5
Birth 22 March 1928 → 96 years + 1 month ago
Lived 67 years + 11 months
First mandate 11 October 1977 → 46 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 6 months
Death 6 March 1996 → 28 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 7 years + 10 months after 25 April 1988
Special notes
None
 
Abe Kovnats (1928–1996)
© 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 10 6 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊕ Herold L. Driedger  m 
⊖ Harry Shafransky  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Eveline M.B. Reese  f 
 
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
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
45
PC
 2/3 3,635 37.70% -632 Winner:
NDP
 4,267 44.25% Harry Shafransky
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
PC
 1/3 4,535 46.82% +778 Loser:
NDP
 3,757 38.79% Harry Shafransky

Service: 4 years 1 month 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 15,194 Votes: 11,540 Participation: 75.95% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9328(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
53
PC
 1/3 5,432 47.18% +696 Loser:
NDP
 4,736 41.14% Lloyd Schreyer

Service: 4 years 4 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: 18,985 Votes: 13,588 Participation: 71.57% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
33		 Manitoba
18 March 1986
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9378(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
57
PC
 1/3 6,437 47.44% +1,606 Loser:
NDP
 4,831 35.61% Allan MacDonald

Service: 2 years 1 month 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 22,705 Votes: 18,082 Participation: 79.64% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Manitoba
26 April 1988
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 9435(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
60
PC
 2/4 7,222 39.99% -1,354 Winner:
LIB
 8,576 47.48% Herold L. Driedger

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Kovnats, Abe		 26 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Kovnats, Abe		 26 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Abe Kovnats (1928-1996)		 26 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Abe Kovnats		 26 Feb 2024

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